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Dentaline nurses | Medway Community Healthcare CIC
| Posting date: | 13 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £25,147 - £27,596 pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 September 2024 |
| Location: | Maidstone, ME20 6QJ |
| Company: | Medway Community Healthcare CIC |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6539918/813-302-0824-MH |
Summary
• Are you a qualified and experienced dental nurse?
• Do you want to work flexibly, with hours to suit your needs
If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!
We are increasing our flexibank of dental nurses within our DentaLine team, for two sites in Maidstone and Medway. This is weekend, morning and evening work.
The successful candidate will work at our busy clinics to assist in providing out of hours emergency care to patients during the evenings and weekends when daytime care is shut. You will work alongside local general dental practitioners.
• Work closely with the duty dentist ensuring the treatment plans are understood so that preparations can take place, following instruction by the duty dentist as necessary.
• Help maintain patients’ comfort and dignity at all times and give basic advice and reassurance to patients and clients especially where there may be communication difficulties.
• Provide compassion and support to the patient during and after treatments,making them feel at ease.
• Liaise with the clinic co-ordinator to ascertain when and how many patients may be waiting to be treated.
• Liaise with the clinic co-ordinator when treatments are more lengthy than anticipated.
• Liaise with clinic co-ordinator if patient needs referral to other treatment providers.Inform clinic co-ordinator of any equipment failures or any problems that cannot wait until the next working day.
• Inform the lead nurse and or administration team during office hours of any issues that may arise and have a detrimental effect on service provision.
• Liaise with the lead nurse to improve working procedures.
• Attend all team meetings when necessary to discuss our existing procedures and future plans for service.
So what else?
· This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
· We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
· We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
· You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The small print
• Informal visits can be arranged on request.
• We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
• MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
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1. Communication and relationship skills
A dental nurse must ensure a professional and ethical level of communication and confidentiality in their sessional activities in the following areas:
Internal
• DentaLine clinic staff
• DentaLine head office
• DentaLine management
• DentaLine call centre staff
• Other DentaLine clinics
External
• Duty dentists
• Patients/relatives/carers
• Other trusts/hospital staff in place of work
The post holder must:
• Work closely with the duty dentist ensuring the treatment plans are understood so that preparations can take place, following instruction by the duty dentist as necessary.
• Help maintain patients’ comfort and dignity at all times and give basic advice and reassurance to patients and clients especially where there may be communication difficulties.
• Provide compassion and support to the patient during and after treatments, making them feel at ease.
• Liaise with the clinic co-ordinator to ascertain when and how many patients may be waiting to be treated.
• Liaise with the clinic co-ordinator when treatments are more lengthy than anticipated.
• Liaise with clinic co-ordinator if patient needs referral to other treatment providers.
• Inform clinic co-ordinator of any equipment failures or any problems that cannot wait until the next working day
• Inform the lead nurse and or administration team during office hours of any issues that may arise and have a detrimental effect on service provision.
• Liaise with the lead nurse to improve working procedures.
• Attend all team meetings when necessary to discuss our existing procedures and future plans for service.
1. Knowledge, training and experience
The post holder should:
• Hold the NEBDN certificate in dental nursing/NVQ level 3 city & guilds in oral health care, plus knowledge and experience of a range of dental procedures.
• Maintain general dental council registration.
• Maintain clinical skills and knowledge base throughout professional career.
• Maintain relevant statutory and mandatory training.
• Work as part of a team, demonstrating flexibility in a changing environment.
• Have a flexible approach to working hours, inclusive of working bank holidays/Easter day /Christmas day and be available at short notice to cover sessions.
• Flexibility to work in all DentaLine clinics/dental departments inclusive of salaried dental services during the daytime when required.
• Work within pre-defined guidelines.
• Clinical supervision where the service deems necessary and or appropriate
1. Analytical and judgement skills
The post holder should:
• Act on own initiative where required guided by service policies/protocols in the absence of another clinic team member.
• Anticipate the requirements of the clinician and be prepared for eventualities such as medical emergencies and equipment failure.
• Must know when to take prompt action in a range of emergency clinical and non-clinical procedures and situations, guided by service policies/protocols.
• Anticipate individual patient emergency needs
1. Planning and organisational skills
The post holder should:
• Prepare the dental surgery before the start of the session in line with agreed protocols and adhering to infection control policies and procedures.
• Receive and prepare patients for treatment.
• Processing and mounting of radiographs; all radiographs to be taken by the duty dentist in accordance with ionising radiation medical exposure regulations. (IRMER)
• Ensure that dental instruments are decontaminated appropriately in accordance to service policies/protocols and in a timely manner.
• Ensure the surgery is cleaned and decontaminated in a timely manner prior to the next patient’s treatment ensuring the services policies / protocols are followed at all times.
• Ensure at the end of the session that the surgery is cleaned and decontaminated following service policies and protocols.
• Ensure that service training needs are met by planning other commitments in order to attend.
• Ensure accuracy when recordingand charting treatment plans within the R4 appointment system
1. Physical skills
The post holder will be expected to:
• Walk to waiting room to receive and retrieve patients.
• On occasions work with limited scope for movement during treatments, whilst sitting/standing for long periods of time.
• On occasions make repetitive movements during treatment.
• Be required to twist and bend whilst treating patients in order to maintain a good line of sight throughout treatment.
• On occasions lift pharmaceutical chests, whose weight will not exceed 4kg.
• Some sites permit to push a chest high drugs trolley from one room to another at the start and end of sessions
1. Responsibility for patient / client care
The post holder will have some responsibility for direct patient/client care in the following:
• To care for the patient during treatments by offering compassion and understanding to make them feel at ease.
• Ensure the patients are given appropriate pharmacy leaflets where applicable.
• Following guidance from the duty dentist, to give post-operative advice following an extraction or following treatment to traumatised teeth.
• Observing the patient’s condition throughout treatment.
• To give support to the duty dentist should a medical emergency arise.
• To complete the patients treatment and hand over to the clinic co-ordinator, advising them of patients treatment and any post op care
1. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation
The post holder will be:
• Responsible for ensuring all implemented policies, procedures and guidelines within the organisation and Dentaline service are adhered to within their own area of work.
• To ensure patient confidentiality and data protection is adhered to at all times.
1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources
The post holder will have limited responsibility for financial and physical resources but will be asked to complete the following:
• On occasions receiving payments from patients and issuing receipts.
• On occasions ensure reconciliation of payments are correct at the end of every session.
• On occasions prepare finance for banking.
• On occasions maintain a cash float.
• On occasions ordering of dental materials and equipment when required, following service guidelines.
1. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)
The post holder may be asked to undertake the following:
• To help the service to integrate new team members ensuring that protocols and procedures are adhered to at all times
1. Responsibilities for information resources
The post holder will have no overall responsibility for information resources.
1. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)
The post holder has limited responsibility for research and development in the following areas:
• Ensuring Radiography audits are completed correctly with guidance from the duty dentist and in accordance to Service policies and procedures.
• Ensuring paper audits are stored in accordance to set policies and sent back to the administration office following the correct guidelines.
1. Freedom to act
The post holder should:
• Be able to prioritise own workload and act independently to ensure that all aspects of patient care is of the highest standard.
• Work within Service guidelines and be governed by the policies and procedures outlined by the Organisation.
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Aug 2024
• Do you want to work flexibly, with hours to suit your needs
If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!
We are increasing our flexibank of dental nurses within our DentaLine team, for two sites in Maidstone and Medway. This is weekend, morning and evening work.
The successful candidate will work at our busy clinics to assist in providing out of hours emergency care to patients during the evenings and weekends when daytime care is shut. You will work alongside local general dental practitioners.
• Work closely with the duty dentist ensuring the treatment plans are understood so that preparations can take place, following instruction by the duty dentist as necessary.
• Help maintain patients’ comfort and dignity at all times and give basic advice and reassurance to patients and clients especially where there may be communication difficulties.
• Provide compassion and support to the patient during and after treatments,making them feel at ease.
• Liaise with the clinic co-ordinator to ascertain when and how many patients may be waiting to be treated.
• Liaise with the clinic co-ordinator when treatments are more lengthy than anticipated.
• Liaise with clinic co-ordinator if patient needs referral to other treatment providers.Inform clinic co-ordinator of any equipment failures or any problems that cannot wait until the next working day.
• Inform the lead nurse and or administration team during office hours of any issues that may arise and have a detrimental effect on service provision.
• Liaise with the lead nurse to improve working procedures.
• Attend all team meetings when necessary to discuss our existing procedures and future plans for service.
So what else?
· This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
· We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
· We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
· You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important work life balance is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The small print
• Informal visits can be arranged on request.
• We will offer you the choice of two pension schemes; the NHS Pension scheme and the scottish widows group pension scheme.
• MCH encourages all staff to be double COVID vaccinated to protect themselves, their colleagues, their family and their patients.
.
1. Communication and relationship skills
A dental nurse must ensure a professional and ethical level of communication and confidentiality in their sessional activities in the following areas:
Internal
• DentaLine clinic staff
• DentaLine head office
• DentaLine management
• DentaLine call centre staff
• Other DentaLine clinics
External
• Duty dentists
• Patients/relatives/carers
• Other trusts/hospital staff in place of work
The post holder must:
• Work closely with the duty dentist ensuring the treatment plans are understood so that preparations can take place, following instruction by the duty dentist as necessary.
• Help maintain patients’ comfort and dignity at all times and give basic advice and reassurance to patients and clients especially where there may be communication difficulties.
• Provide compassion and support to the patient during and after treatments, making them feel at ease.
• Liaise with the clinic co-ordinator to ascertain when and how many patients may be waiting to be treated.
• Liaise with the clinic co-ordinator when treatments are more lengthy than anticipated.
• Liaise with clinic co-ordinator if patient needs referral to other treatment providers.
• Inform clinic co-ordinator of any equipment failures or any problems that cannot wait until the next working day
• Inform the lead nurse and or administration team during office hours of any issues that may arise and have a detrimental effect on service provision.
• Liaise with the lead nurse to improve working procedures.
• Attend all team meetings when necessary to discuss our existing procedures and future plans for service.
1. Knowledge, training and experience
The post holder should:
• Hold the NEBDN certificate in dental nursing/NVQ level 3 city & guilds in oral health care, plus knowledge and experience of a range of dental procedures.
• Maintain general dental council registration.
• Maintain clinical skills and knowledge base throughout professional career.
• Maintain relevant statutory and mandatory training.
• Work as part of a team, demonstrating flexibility in a changing environment.
• Have a flexible approach to working hours, inclusive of working bank holidays/Easter day /Christmas day and be available at short notice to cover sessions.
• Flexibility to work in all DentaLine clinics/dental departments inclusive of salaried dental services during the daytime when required.
• Work within pre-defined guidelines.
• Clinical supervision where the service deems necessary and or appropriate
1. Analytical and judgement skills
The post holder should:
• Act on own initiative where required guided by service policies/protocols in the absence of another clinic team member.
• Anticipate the requirements of the clinician and be prepared for eventualities such as medical emergencies and equipment failure.
• Must know when to take prompt action in a range of emergency clinical and non-clinical procedures and situations, guided by service policies/protocols.
• Anticipate individual patient emergency needs
1. Planning and organisational skills
The post holder should:
• Prepare the dental surgery before the start of the session in line with agreed protocols and adhering to infection control policies and procedures.
• Receive and prepare patients for treatment.
• Processing and mounting of radiographs; all radiographs to be taken by the duty dentist in accordance with ionising radiation medical exposure regulations. (IRMER)
• Ensure that dental instruments are decontaminated appropriately in accordance to service policies/protocols and in a timely manner.
• Ensure the surgery is cleaned and decontaminated in a timely manner prior to the next patient’s treatment ensuring the services policies / protocols are followed at all times.
• Ensure at the end of the session that the surgery is cleaned and decontaminated following service policies and protocols.
• Ensure that service training needs are met by planning other commitments in order to attend.
• Ensure accuracy when recordingand charting treatment plans within the R4 appointment system
1. Physical skills
The post holder will be expected to:
• Walk to waiting room to receive and retrieve patients.
• On occasions work with limited scope for movement during treatments, whilst sitting/standing for long periods of time.
• On occasions make repetitive movements during treatment.
• Be required to twist and bend whilst treating patients in order to maintain a good line of sight throughout treatment.
• On occasions lift pharmaceutical chests, whose weight will not exceed 4kg.
• Some sites permit to push a chest high drugs trolley from one room to another at the start and end of sessions
1. Responsibility for patient / client care
The post holder will have some responsibility for direct patient/client care in the following:
• To care for the patient during treatments by offering compassion and understanding to make them feel at ease.
• Ensure the patients are given appropriate pharmacy leaflets where applicable.
• Following guidance from the duty dentist, to give post-operative advice following an extraction or following treatment to traumatised teeth.
• Observing the patient’s condition throughout treatment.
• To give support to the duty dentist should a medical emergency arise.
• To complete the patients treatment and hand over to the clinic co-ordinator, advising them of patients treatment and any post op care
1. Responsibility for policy and service development implementation
The post holder will be:
• Responsible for ensuring all implemented policies, procedures and guidelines within the organisation and Dentaline service are adhered to within their own area of work.
• To ensure patient confidentiality and data protection is adhered to at all times.
1. Responsibilities for financial and physical resources
The post holder will have limited responsibility for financial and physical resources but will be asked to complete the following:
• On occasions receiving payments from patients and issuing receipts.
• On occasions ensure reconciliation of payments are correct at the end of every session.
• On occasions prepare finance for banking.
• On occasions maintain a cash float.
• On occasions ordering of dental materials and equipment when required, following service guidelines.
1. Responsibilities for human resources (HR)
The post holder may be asked to undertake the following:
• To help the service to integrate new team members ensuring that protocols and procedures are adhered to at all times
1. Responsibilities for information resources
The post holder will have no overall responsibility for information resources.
1. Responsibilities for research and development (R&D)
The post holder has limited responsibility for research and development in the following areas:
• Ensuring Radiography audits are completed correctly with guidance from the duty dentist and in accordance to Service policies and procedures.
• Ensuring paper audits are stored in accordance to set policies and sent back to the administration office following the correct guidelines.
1. Freedom to act
The post holder should:
• Be able to prioritise own workload and act independently to ensure that all aspects of patient care is of the highest standard.
• Work within Service guidelines and be governed by the policies and procedures outlined by the Organisation.
This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Aug 2024
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