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Dental Nurse band 5 | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 11 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £18.80 Weekly pay will include: Basic pay + HCAS + 12.07% Holiday pay |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 July 2024 |
| Location: | London, SW6 4UL |
| Company: | Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6386708/824-BANK-007805 |
Summary
Bank Qualified Dental Nurse band - 4
Are you keen to use your assessment and intervention skills in a rewarding NHS role but unable to commit to a permanent position right now?
We have an excellent opportunity for a Dental Nurse to become part of a responsive rehabilitation service, working across Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Westminster
Why join?
• Earn more per hour -bank rates are higher than agency and include holiday pay. We also cover your expenses and provide free uniforms
• See the best shifts first –bank staff get priority over all agency workers
• Get 24x7 support from our friendly Staff Bank team –a local teamdedicated to helping you
• Become part of an integrated team –feel more valued and supported in your work
Job Purpose
As Dental Nurse, you will fulfill duties commensurate with the role within the Community and Specialist Dental Service, assisting in providing high quality primary clinical dental care for child and adult patients who cannot access a General Dental Practitioner. Care provided may include the full range of restorative and preventive NHS treatments including treatment under sedation, or from other setting e.g. other clinics, care establishments, schools, day centres and patients homes when appropriate. You may be required to participate in oral health promotion, dental screening and epidemiological .
You will have chairside experience and ideally hold the NEBDN National Certificate for Dental Nurses, NVQ in Oral Health Care Dental Nursing Level 2 & 3, Diploma in Dental Nursing L3 or equivalent.
You will be registered with the General Dental Council and have personal indemnity cover.
We provide community health services to more than two million people across eleven London boroughs and Hertfordshire.
Every day, our professionals provide high-quality healthcare in people's homes and local clinics, helping them to:
• stay well
• manage their own health with the right support
• avoid unnecessary trips to, or long stays in, hospital.
We support our patients at every stage of their lives, providing health visiting for new-born babies through to community nursing, stroke rehabilitation and palliative care for people towards the end of their lives.
Our vision: deliver great care closer to home.
Our mission: working together to give children a better start and adults greater independence
Main Duties and Responsibilities
CLINICAL DUTIES
• Support clinicians in a wide range of different types of clinical treatments, within a range of settings e.g. clinics, patients’ homes, residential care and nursing homes, hospices and hospitals.
• Anticipate clinician needs and support patients during dental treatment.
• Responding to individual patient’s needs and provide pre- and post-operative instruction when needed, ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained.
• Prepare the dental surgery and temporary clinical environments outside of clinical areas for use, ensuring the use of personal protective equipment as defined by Trust Infection Prevention guidelines.
• Ensure correct clean instruments and equipment, x-rays, records and electronic records are available to the clinician prior to treatment.
• Provide clinical support for Inhalation and Intra-Venous sedation clinics - additional training will be provided if necessary.
• Follow local rules and Trust policies, including Infection Prevention, radiography and waste disposal and undertake the decontamination of dental instruments complying with HTM:01-05 guidelines to ensure patient safety, safe handling of sharps, drugs, harmful corrosive materials, waste mercury /amalgams and clinical waste.
This advert closes on Tuesday 25 Jun 2024