Dental Nurse Team Leader | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
We are on the looking to recruit a confident, enthusiastic team player with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills to join our wonderful team as a Dental Nurse Team Leader.
As a qualified Dental Nurse, you will be responsible for supporting the service ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care.
You will participate in administrative clinic duties as well as clinical duties within the department.
The post holder will be expected to assist the Oral & Maxillofacial clinicians with a wide of procedures including, but not exclusive to the removal of teeth and roots, surgical removal of wisdom teeth, surgical uncovering of impacted teeth and soft tissue surgery, oncology, facial deformity, and pain clinics.
Procedures may be carried out under local anesthetic, conscious sedation, and general anesthesia.
We undertake orthodontic treatments which come under IOTN 4 and 5, these may include a multidisciplinary team approach, you will work alongside a varied range of clinicians ranging from Trainee Orthodontic Therapist to Consultants
It is expected that the post holder will be able to give advice on standard and more specialist Oral & Maxillofacial treatments. You will also be responsible for coordinating patient follow up appointments after certain procedures.
Assists the dental practitioner with dental treatment; provides pre- and post-operative, dental hygiene advice to patients 2.
Prepares materials, instruments, equipment for dental practitioner
Provides day to day or clinical supervision to less experienced staff
• The post holder will work alongside the Dental Nurse Manager to provide support to Dental Nurses and ensure they acquire and maintain the skills relevant to their career development.
• You will undertake HR related duties including return to work interviews for your allocated team members
• You will be expected to establish strong links and effective working relations with the whole dental team.
• You will coordinate the running of clinics and be the first point of contact for Dental Nurse and reception staff for day-to-day issues.
• You will participate in the rostering of staff to ensure correct staffing levels and skill mix enabling the team to deliver a high standard of patient care
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ people representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team.
We recognise that many people find interviews daunting and the conventional interview approach, of unseen questions, often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore piloting sending interview questions, to candidates, in advance.
This vacancy is within one of our pilot areas therefore if you are invited for interview you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date. Feedback on this process will also be requested to help our teams understand and evaluate your recruitment experience.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024
As a qualified Dental Nurse, you will be responsible for supporting the service ensuring that our service users’ needs are met through the delivery of high-quality care.
You will participate in administrative clinic duties as well as clinical duties within the department.
The post holder will be expected to assist the Oral & Maxillofacial clinicians with a wide of procedures including, but not exclusive to the removal of teeth and roots, surgical removal of wisdom teeth, surgical uncovering of impacted teeth and soft tissue surgery, oncology, facial deformity, and pain clinics.
Procedures may be carried out under local anesthetic, conscious sedation, and general anesthesia.
We undertake orthodontic treatments which come under IOTN 4 and 5, these may include a multidisciplinary team approach, you will work alongside a varied range of clinicians ranging from Trainee Orthodontic Therapist to Consultants
It is expected that the post holder will be able to give advice on standard and more specialist Oral & Maxillofacial treatments. You will also be responsible for coordinating patient follow up appointments after certain procedures.
Assists the dental practitioner with dental treatment; provides pre- and post-operative, dental hygiene advice to patients 2.
Prepares materials, instruments, equipment for dental practitioner
Provides day to day or clinical supervision to less experienced staff
• The post holder will work alongside the Dental Nurse Manager to provide support to Dental Nurses and ensure they acquire and maintain the skills relevant to their career development.
• You will undertake HR related duties including return to work interviews for your allocated team members
• You will be expected to establish strong links and effective working relations with the whole dental team.
• You will coordinate the running of clinics and be the first point of contact for Dental Nurse and reception staff for day-to-day issues.
• You will participate in the rostering of staff to ensure correct staffing levels and skill mix enabling the team to deliver a high standard of patient care
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential tomake a differenceand we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values -care,appreciateandinspire– to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Please note an NMC PRN PIN is not a full NMC PIN and would not fulfil the essential criteria for this role.
This vacancy is open to those who have a current NMC PIN to practice as an Registered Nurse or Midwife in the UK, or those who are currently enrolled on a course which means they expect to receive their full NMC PIN within the next 3 months.
The NCA can no longer accept applications from International Nurses and Midwives who are yet to complete all competencies needed to receive a full NMC PIN to practice in the UK as we have paused our OSCE programme indefinitely. To learn more about how you can gain a full NMC PIN to be eligible to apply for our vacancies in the future, please see the NMC website: https://www.nmc.org.uk/registration/joining-the-register/register-nurse-midwife/trained-outside-uk/how-to-guide/
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ people representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We continually review our recruitment processes to ensure they are supporting us achieving an inclusive and representative team.
We recognise that many people find interviews daunting and the conventional interview approach, of unseen questions, often impacts performance on the day. We are therefore piloting sending interview questions, to candidates, in advance.
This vacancy is within one of our pilot areas therefore if you are invited for interview you will receive your interview questions in advance of your interview date. Feedback on this process will also be requested to help our teams understand and evaluate your recruitment experience.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024
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