Post:EDS (Emergency Dental Service) Dental Nurse
Reports to:Senior Dental Nurse
Pay:£17.32 per hour - Weekend & BH Enhancements
Base:Queen Victoria Centre, Thornton Road, Morecambe
Hours:Bank/Zero Hours Contract - Evenings and Weekends
Role:An exciting and rare opportunity has arisen for a dynamic Individual to develop their dental nursing career within our Emergency Dental Service.
We are looking for a person who enjoys urgent dental care/the unexpected elements of dentistry but will take satisfaction from the less routine side of dentistry. An honest person, who cares about their work & their team members.
The Service
We are commissioned by Lancashire and South Cumbria, Integrated Care Board to provide NHS urgent and emergency dental care 365 days, at multiple sites across Lancashire. We believe in making a difference, and pride ourselves on delivering high quality patient care. We currently have services operating in Blackpool, Morecambe, Blackburn and Burnley. We operate out of hours; evenings, weekends & bank holidays 365 days per year.
Overview Of The Role
£17.32 per hour with enhancements for weekends and bank holiday shifts.
Bank/Zero Hours contract, flexible rotas, most nurses alongside other employment. Looking for approx. 1/2 shifts per week, and able to cover occasionally at short notice.
Shift patterns (may vary): Monday to Friday: 5.45pm to 9.30pm / Saturday/Sunday & BH: 1.15pm to 5pm
The Service aims to provide patients with treatment to relieve pain, swellings, and the management of Injuries/Traumas. Caring and Compassionate personality is extremely important. Confident dental nurse able to work as a team in a busy, and sometimes unpredictable environment.
Main Duties
- 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 havent 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.
- Some decontamination of instruments may be required.
- 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.
Our Key Expectations Are
Self-awareness Living authentically
Adaptability- Being ready to adjust depending on the situation
Openness What you see is what you get
Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible
Generosity of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness
Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself
Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.
Values: Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathes complimentary values and behaviours.
Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA:
- Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy!
- Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome!
- Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become
- Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done
- Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!
- Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity
Why Us
- Annual leave paid monthly.
- Competitive rates of pay
- Weekend & Bank holiday enhancements
- Flexibility of shifts
- Enhance your Dental Nursing skills in our EDS environment.
- On call managers available at all times
- Kind, Caring & Supportive, very rarely do we advertise for new team members because of our successful retention of staff.
Come and be a part of our amazing team!
We offer NHS Pension
Cycle to Work Scheme
Career Development Opportunities
Attendance Bonus
Staff Benefit Scheme
Free Tea & Coffee
Eye Care Contributions
Disability Confident Employer
As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy
DBS - This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence).
PERSON SPECIFICATION
Qualifications Essential
NVQ L3 or equivalent in Dental Nursing.
Desirable
Dental Radiography
Experience Essential
GDC registered Dental Nurse
Desirable
Experience in a healthcare office or administrative role preferably in Dentistry.
Working with Dentally Software
Skills, Knowledge And Competencies Essential
Honest
Confidence with patients and unexpected situations
Teamworking and able to work autonomously.
Negotiation and influencing skills.
Act on own initiative
Organisational and communication skills.
Act on own initiative
Organisational and communication skills.
Desirable
IT Skills
Experience of picking up safeguarding concerns & being able to ask probing questions in a delicate manger to obtain important information.
The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staffto share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
