- Contract – Bank
- Hours – Part-time, Flexible working
- Location – St Peters Centre, Burnley, BB11 2DL
- Salary – £17.32 an hour Weekend and Bank Holiday Enhancements
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The Service:
We are commissioned by NHS England to provide NHS Urgent Dental Care Services to patients across Lancashire from four locations. We currently have services operating in Blackpool and Morecambe and we have recently been successful in expanding this service into Blackburn and Burnley. The Services operate out of hours, evenings, weekends & bank holidays – 365 days per year.
We see patients who are in need of urgent and emergency dental care, from toothache to serious Injuries.
We are looking for a fun, caring and compassionate and professional individual to join our team. This would suit a dental nurse who is confident and able to deal with unplanned treatments and expect the unexpected!
You will work as part of a team and for the team to work at its best everyone must play a part, utilising everyone’s skill sets, and supporting each other is essential to this service.
About the Role:
This role requires a confident Dental Nurse who is able to manage a clinic when timekeeping can be difficult due to anxious patients and unexpected emergencies. The service aims to provide patients with treatment to relieve them of pain, swellings, and the management of Injuries/Traumas where teeth may need to be re-implanted. A caring and compassionate personality is something that is extremely important to us. We ask ourselves how we would want our own family members to be treated.
- To perform high quality dental nursing in a safe and effective manner alongside the dentist, within the scope of practice of a dental nurse.
- Confident and competent dental nurse with working in a busy, and sometimes unpredictable environment.
- Good organisational and time management skills here is invaluable.
- Being able to think on your feet but remaining polite and professional is essential; there are sometimes difficult situations that may arise where you may need to take the lead. Adaptability is essential.
- Confident in working with variety of different staff, it wont always be the same team members your rostered with.
- Ability to calm and reassure nervous and anxious patients a large portion of our service users haven’t seen a dentist in a long time and usually come to us as a last resort.
- Its essential you are able to work within a team and be a trustworthy member.
- High standard of infection control and be up to date with HTM01-05.
- To establish and maintain productive working relationships with all members of the dental team, supporting & helping one another.
- Contribute with suggestions and ideas to make improvements in quality and outcomes for patients.
- Assist with any reasonable duties requested.
