Dental Nurse | Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 17 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £10,296 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 May 2024 |
| Location: | Preston, PR1 1EL |
| Company: | Lancashire Care Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6238357/351-SPS1077-EJ |
Summary
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Dental Nurse to join our team at Ringway Dental Centre in Preston within the Lancashire and South Cumbria Dental Service.
We are seeking an enthusiastic, motivated individual, with excellent communication skills to assist in the delivery of urgent and routine dental care. You must be a qualified dental nurse, and you will have a good standard of education and the ability to work well within a team.
You will mainly work at your base clinic; however you may also be required to work at our other clinics, covering sickness and annual leave. You need to be able to work flexibly across 7 days on a rota basis.
You will have opportunity to study for post registration qualifications including sedation and will have access to plentiful CPD and clinical supervision.
• To provide clinical and non-clinical support to Trust employed Dental Clinicians operating across Lancashire Care Dental Service footprint.
• To be the link between service user and clinician.
• To prepare the surgery for the service user and assist the clinicians in a range of dental treatments.
• To assist in the provision of oral health care including the prevention and health education to individual Service Users who may have learning or physical difficulties, mental health illness, be medically compromised, dependent elderly or have a dental phobia.
• To undertake reception duties and carry out administrative duties as necessary.
Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.
The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.
Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.
For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT.
Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.
This advert closes on Wednesday 1 May 2024