• Will provide operational management to ensure efficient day-to-day running of the department, clinics, and surgery.
• To ensure delivery of specialist skilled nursing support and knowledge to clinicians in the treatment and care of patients.
• Assist management with administrative duties
Professional Duties
• It is essential for the post holder to have obtained the National Examining Board Qualification for Dental Nurses or a certificate of proficiency awarded by a dental hospital and follow their code of ethics.
• To be registered with the General Dental Council
• Carry out all duties within the Trust policy framework under the supervision of the consultant/medical team. Report any difficulties encountered.
• Foster good relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients, and visitors to the department. Contribute to achieving high morale.
• To promote the perception by patients and their carers of a safe, professional, caring, friendly, and informative atmosphere while attending for treatment.
• Post-qualification certificates in conscious sedationis essential.Radiologyisdesirable.
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
• Prepare theatre and surgical trays for operations carried out under local anaesthetic/sedation, following aseptic technique in accordance with Trust guidelines.
• Assisting the medical/surgical team and acting as a theatre/scrub nurse, which requires a high level of concentration and physical effort. You will be required to stand in a restricted position for long periods of time, especially during complex cases.
• Ensure correct handling, labelling, and dispatch of laboratory/pathology specimens.
• To undertake extra-oral suture, staple removal, and dressing changes under the supervision of clinicians.
• Participate in extending skills of clinical practice when appropriate, taking intraoral radiographs.
• Participate in the nurse-led pre-assessment clinics for sedation admissions.
• Take blood samples, INR and blood glucose testing.
• Collaborate and liaise with other members of the multidisciplinary team, including the head & neck cancer specialist nurse and other specialities.
• Be competent in the management of outpatient clinics using the electronic patient records system. (EPR).
• You may be asked to work in other areas of the trust within you skill set.
• Attend statutory Trust Policy training annually.
• Be aware of the Complaints Policy and report appropriately any untoward occurrence in relation to this.
• Follow clinical risk incident procedure and reporting systems.
• Liaising with other departments
• Supervise and mentor new members of staff within the department.
• Conduct daily team briefs and comply with nurse in charge duties to ensure the smooth running of the department when necessary.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Mar 2025
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