Band 7 Staff Dental Hygienist | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 Annual salary |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 23 May 2024 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B5 7EG |
| Company: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6116572/820-6116572-DEN |
Summary
Birmingham Dental Hospital is part of Birmingham Community Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust. It works in partnership with the University of Birmingham School of Dentistry in the delivery of internationally recognised clinical services, education and research.
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to recruit a Dental Hygienist (Band 7) to work in the specialised service provision within the periodontal unit as outlined above.
Applicants should be registered Dental Hygienists holding certificates:
1. To administer local anaesthetics
2. Perform inferior dental blocks
3. Take impressions
4. Re-cement temporary crowns/dressing
5. Become involved in research trials.
To provide specialist clinical care and preventative treatment without direct supervision to patients attending the specialist Dental Hospital services for secondary or tertiary care. To carry out dental treatment on these patients to a level of competence as directed by the Dental Act and its amendments.
Main contact is with hospital staff and patients. Patient groups as a priority are adults and children with special needs, including medically compromised patients, anxious patients and patients with challenging behaviour.
Clinical:
1. Carrying out the full range of treatments currently permitted under the General Dental Council regulations.
2. Specific duties may only be undertaken if trained and competent to do so.
3. Treatment may be carried out within hospital dental departments and wards or by domiciliary treatment visits, if necessary.
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Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
Treatment is provided following a prescribed course of treatment as directed by a registered dentist. Any combination of the following duties may be performed on a daily basis.
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.
This advert closes on Tuesday 7 May 2024