Band 7 Staff Dental Hygienist - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

    Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT
    Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT Birmingham, United Kingdom

    2 weeks ago

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    Job 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 anaesthetics2. Perform inferior dental blocks3. Take impressions4. Re-cement temporary crowns/dressing5. Become involved in research trials.

    Main duties of the job

    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:

  • Carrying out the full range of treatments currently permitted under the General Dental Council regulations.
  • Specific duties may only be undertaken if trained and competent to do so.
  • Treatment may be carried out within hospital dental departments and wards or by domiciliary treatment visits, if necessary.

    • About us

    IMPORTANT

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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.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    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.

    Person Specification

    Qualifications

    Essential

  • Degree in Dental Hygiene/Therapy
  • Compulsory annual registration with the General Dental Council with a specific medical or dental society is advisable
  • Personal indemnity insurance
  • Current GDC registration
  • Local infiltration analgesia
  • Inferior dental nerve block analgesia

    • Desirable

  • Dental radiography
  • Dental impressions
  • Placement of temporary dressings
  • Recementing of crowns

    • Experience

    Essential

  • Extensive experience in working/dealing with special needs groups including the elderly, young patients, medically compromised patients and those patients with differing abilities and behavior.

    • Desirable

  • Extensive experience in dental software packages.

    • Skills/Knowledge

    Essential

  • Communication and empathetic skills beyond those required for routine dental care in general dental practice
  • Analytical and problem solving skills appropriate to the provision of specialist care in a specialist environment
  • Collaborate and interact professionally with individuals
  • Maintain knowledge of current dental hygiene practice
  • Highly specialist manual dexterity
  • Ability to work under pressure and on own initiative
  • Analytical and organisational skills
  • Computer literate
  • Assessment of own workload to accommodate service need.
  • Supervision and direction of dental nurse providing chairside and clerical support
  • Participate in and evaluate audit and research.
  • Highly specialist fine manual dexterity.
  • Perform accurate specialist diagnostic tests.
  • Receive and analyse complex information and determine individual care packages
  • Concentrate for long periods of time.
  • Work under pressure and on own initiative.
  • Be competent in dealing with emotional and distressing situations and possible verbal aggressive behaviour.
  • Literate and numerate.
  • Inform practical/policy changes via monthly Team Briefings
  • Instruct and teach BDS degree dental students and evaluate clinical performance
  • Provide counselling and advice to patients, carers and fellow
  • Maintain and update theoretical and practical knowledge in order to obtain professional qualifications
  • Familiarity with all policies and procedures determined locally and within the Trust.
  • Good knowledge of all dental equipment related to specialty.
  • Ability to source knowledge in order to provide clinical care under quality assurance.

    • Desirable

  • Management of patients who have undergone ablative and corrective surgery and those with cleft palate or oro-facial anomalies/disease
  • Research performed to International good clinical practice (GCP) standards and maintenance of confidential care record files.
  • Knowledge of the specific needs of patients with HIV disease, organ transplants and those with complex dermatological conditions (, Epidermolysis Bullosa) to enable safe practice.
  • Knowledge of dental software packages.

    • Personal qualities

    Essential

  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Professional approach.
  • Work as part of a multidisciplinary team.
  • Problem-solving skills
  • Prioritising and planning skills.
  • Commitment to personal development
  • Flexible and responsive to change
  • Empathise with patients/carers/relatives
  • Motivated
  • Responsible and accountable for own professional actions.
  • Willing to work in other areas of the Hospital in order to accommodate service requirements, as directed by the Head of Department
  • Work with direct supervision and make appropriate clinical decisions
  • Work in confined spaces which may require periods of sitting or standing
  • Safe use of specialist dental and dental radiography equipment if required.