Apprentice Dental Nursing - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Description
To provide senior dental nurse support to the dental nursing team and to work flexibly within a dental team providing high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the integrated Dental Service Community and Mobile Clinics and /or additional external sites as required.
To provide day to day management of the clinic / department, and to support the Dental Nurse Manager and chair side assistance to Clinicians within the Division.
To support the delivery of dentistry and development of the service.
To educate and develop dental nursing teams to respond to the complex needs of patients that meet the acceptance criteria across the service.
Maintain a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within Specialised Dental Clinics throughout the service and manage patients with complex social and medical histories.
This includes Prison Services, Secure Units and Mental Health Facilities.
Liaise with the Dental Nurse Manager and other Senior Dental Nurses to ensure correct training needs are met for staff within the service.
Be professionally responsible for ensuring high standards of Infection Control and Decontamination processes within the service and monitoring undergraduate performance, including risk management and reporting to academic staff.
Support the Dental Nurse Manager and Head of Service for Dentistry to provide team training for all disciplines
Develop staff knowledge and skills to promote equality and diversity and address inequalities both in employment and service delivery. Maintain records for Dental Nurses (i.e. annual leave, off duty, sickness, study leave) and Dental Nurse Apprentices attendance records and ensure this information is communicated to the Dental Nurse Manager.
Please ensure you check your TRAC account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
~ Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including BUSINESS EMAIL ADDRESS , telephone contact details and postal address
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles.
We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation 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.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for better care and healthier communities, we want to hear from you.
A Dental Nurse qualification that enables registration with the General Dental Council
Registered with the General Dental Council
Conscious Sedation for dental nursing or Special Care Dental Nursing
Significant experience in a wide range of dentistry
Demonstrate full commitment to supporting undergraduates to deliver high quality patient care and achieve their required educational standard
Evidence of experience in service redesign and change of clinical financial management
Ability to create and deliver training materials etc. Evidence of managing complex situations and patient complaints
Personal Qualities
Ability to meet travel requirements of the role
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
Birmingham Locality within the Community Dental Services