National Dental is a group of practices in the heart of Dorset providing quality general and specialist private only dentistry in Dorchester, Beaminster, and Blandford (with practices in Weymouth and Yeovil due to open in 2023).
Due to expansion, we have an exciting opportunity available for a Trainee Dental Nurse/Receptionist to join our growing group of private practices in Dorset. We are looking for a passionate and motivated individual who takes pride in their work and can deliver a professional, high standard of work across our practices.
Benefits of working for National Dental include:
* Fully private practices only
* Long appointment times
* Working with a team of experienced and knowledgeable dentists
* Full time opportunity
* Monday - Friday 8:45am-5.15pm (with some later finishes as required)
* Professional and friendly team
* Mileage paid for travel between practices
* Dental Nursing course paid for
We encourage your application if you are a friendly, caring, team player who is professional towards colleagues and patients, computer literate, and someone who is eager to enter into a new, interesting, rewarding career.
Responsibilities:
1. Initial training on reception covering all reception tasks and responsibilities including greeting patients, providing excellent patient service, answering the phone, managing the appointment diary, taking payments, ensuring daily and weekly checks are carried out, cashing up, and answering patient queries.
2. Shadowing in the surgery and decontamination room to learn the skills and requirements to be a top-quality dental nurse, including decontamination of instruments, maintaining a clean and tidy surgery, providing chair-side assistance, dental charting, x-ray development, stock management, and liaising with reception.
3. Participation in a full training and induction plan tailored to your growth with regular progress reviews.
The individual we are looking for should be presentable, well-mannered, friendly, reliable, have a desire to learn and progress, possess good I.T skills, work well as an individual and as a team player, and have excellent communication skills. The ideal candidate would also possess a full driving license as we are a multi-site practice and can enhance your learning with experiences across the practices (mileage/travel paid).
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: £9.00-£12.00 per hour
Schedule:
* 10 hour shift
* 8 hour shift
* Monday to Friday
Experience:
* Dental nursing: 1 year (preferred)
Location:
* Beaminster (preferred)
Willingness to travel:
* 25% (preferred)
Work Location: In person
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