Special Care Dental Nurse

37.5 Hours a week

£23,949. to £26,282.per annum pro rata

Post One - Substantive

Closing Date - 14th April 2023

Interview Date- 26th April 2023

This post may close early due to high numbers of applications so you are advised to apply promptly.

All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.

A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.

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Warwickshire Wide Special Care Dental Service

Applications are invited from experienced, flexible Dental Nurses who hold the National Certificate in Dental Nursing or NVQ level 3 in Oral Healthcare and holds a relevant current Qualification / Certificate in Inhalation Sedation, to join our friendly, enthusiastic team.

We are recruiting to a full time position. To be based in Leamington Hospital. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are required for both post. Experience in General Dental Practice is desirable.Car owner/driver essential

To support Clinicians in a specialist Dental Service to provide high quality dental care for a wide range of patients with specialist needs, including medically compromised conditions, tolerance and access difficulties.

To provide chair side surgery assistance, as appropriate in the qualification of a Dental Nurse, for Clinicians in the performance of their range of complex specialism’s in dental treatment.

A Dental Nurse is adaptable to perform those duties and responsibilities for running static and mobile clinics, and to work flexible times as patients’ needs require.

Here at George Eliot our vision to‘excel at patient care’takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate employees who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, on-site discounted gym, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

Communications & Relationship skills

• As requirement, to arrange, organise, co-ordinate and prepare for screening and epidemiological documentation. Liaise with school administration staff to ensure smooth running of sessions convenient to both schools and the Service. Work within a set time scale as defined nationally, complete all survey and follow up paperwork.
• To arrange appointments in conjunction with patients. To ensure recalls are processed as required.

Knowledge, Training & Experience

• To participate in regular Medical Emergency practice sessions and to be monitored and assessed competent for certification annually in ILS by a Life Support Trainer.
• Knowledge of archiving systems for each clinic.
• Following appropriate training Dental Nurses to work within the GA team and to follow the GA protocols as laid down by the Special Care Dental Service
• To supervise and train unqualified staff

To supervise work experience students