Job Description

Are you looking for a new exciting career within the NHS? Are you patient focussed and want to deliver high quality dental care?We are seeking enthusiastic, hard working dental nurses to join the Community Dental Nursing Team.
We currently have a vacancy for a Band 4 Dental Nurse:
22.5 hours / 0.6 WTE / Working days to be Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Based in the Birmingham locality at the Attwood Green Health Centre
Working flexibly within the dental team to provide high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service, based at Community Dental Services (CDS) including Mobile Clinics and/or additional external sites as required, and at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH).
Dental Nurses will be expected to work flexibly across the Community Dental Services (CDS).

• To provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.
• To carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.

Main duties of the job
- Maintain a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within all dental clinics throughout the service.
- To prepare and monitor patients for and during their dental treatment, providing pre and post operative instructions as required.
- To undertake the general care of the surgery including dental equipment/instruments (medical devices) and arrange any necessary repairs as required.
- To ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available and up to date.
- To provide chair side assistance and postoperative instructions during general anaesthetic and exodontia sessions as required.
- To provide oral health education to patients as required by the clinician
- To assist the Senior Dental Nurse in the smooth running of the Dental service.
- To support and assist clinicians including all student disciplines.
- To support and supervise all apprentice nurses, undergraduate groups.
About us
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.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Details
Date posted
21 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
xc2xa326,530 to xc2xa329,114 a year per annum / pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
820-7192243-DEN
Job locations
Attwood Green Health Centre
30 Bath Row
Birmingham
B15 1LZ
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a detailed description of the role, please see attached Band 4 Qualified Dental Nurse job descriptions and person specifications for each vacancy Job description
Job responsibilities
For a detailed description of the role, please see attached Band 4 Qualified Dental Nurse job descriptions and person specifications for each vacancy
Person Specification
Education
Essential

• A Dental Nurse qualification that enables registration with the General Dental Council i.e. NVQ Level 3, Level 3 Diploma in Dental Nursing or Dental Nursing National Certificate in Dental Nursing / Gained entry onto GDC register via grand-parenting (pre 2008)
• Registered with the General Dental Council

Experience
Essential

• Relevant experience working as part of a dental team, e.g. General Practice, Hospital, other Primary Dental Services / Community Dental Services experiencing chair side duties

Desirable

• Experience of working with children, elderly, medically compromised patients, and patients with learning disabilities

Person Specification
Education
Essential

• A Dental Nurse qualification that enables registration with the General Dental Council i.e. NVQ Level 3, Level 3 Diploma in Dental Nursing or Dental Nursing National Certificate in Dental Nursing / Gained entry onto GDC register via grand-parenting (pre 2008)
• Registered with the General Dental Council

Experience
Essential

• Relevant experience working as part of a dental team, e.g. General Practice, Hospital, other Primary Dental Services / Community Dental Services experiencing chair side duties

Desirable

• Experience of working with children, elderly, medically compromised patients, and patients with learning disabilities