About this role
Job summary <p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:\'Avenir Book\';color:rgb(60,60,59);padding:5px 0px;">To assist the Community Dental Service (CDS) clinicians and other clinical staff to carry out their duties for a variety of specialist services, working at any dental department within the service</p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:\'Avenir Book\';color:rgb(60,60,59);padding:5px 0px;">Administrative tasks relating to the service to help ensure the smooth running of the service</p><p style="margin:8pt 0cm 6pt;font-size:16px;font-family:\'Avenir Black\', sans-serif;color:rgb(60,60,59);background:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:bold;padding:5px 0px;">This post is responsible for</p><ul style="list-style-type:disc;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;"><li style="font-size:inherit;">Clinical tasks relating to Dental Nursing role, dealing with a variety of adults and children with special needs, including learning/physical disabilities, complex medical histories and challenging behaviours</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Providing advice to patients and their representatives including, oral health promotion, post-extraction, GA and sedation as well as general enquiries, dental emergencies and trauma where necessary</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Administrative tasks to support reception/administration team as
Main duties of the job <ul style="list-style-type:disc;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;"><li style="font-size:inherit;">Patient Care<ol style="list-style-type:circle;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;display:unset;"><li style="font-size:inherit;">Surgery and decontamination room preparation and maintenance</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Stock control</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Radiography processing digital images</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Decontamination and Infection Prevention and Control as per national and service protocols and processes</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Patient and carer advice</li></ol></li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Communication Skills<ol style="list-style-type:circle;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;display:unset;"><li style="font-size:inherit;">The patient groups seen in the service have a variety of additional needs, which may be a barrier to communication, so excellent communication and personal skills are required</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">To communicate effectively with all team members using electronic, written or verbal methods</li><li style="font-size:inherit;">Providing advice and information to patients and their representatives when necessary</li></ol>&
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About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
Job description Job responsibilities <p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;color:inherit;font-size:inherit;">As a dental nurse you will be part of our valued team in our Community Dental Service, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:</p><ul style="margin:10px 0px 15px 20px;padding:0px 0px 0px 20px;"><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;"><strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:700;display:unset;">£28392 - £31,157 (Band 4 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions</strong></li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;">Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;">Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates</li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;">Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling </li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;">Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise </li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;">An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year </li><li style="margin:0px 0px 5px;padding:0px;font-size:inherit;">The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission</li></ul> <p style="margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;padding:5px 0px;"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">We are seeking a dedicated and professional Dental Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team at based at Buryfields Clinic, Guildford, however travel to other sites will be required on service needs. This is a vital role at the heart of our service, providing high-quality customer service and essential dental and adminastrative support to ensure the smooth and efficient running of our dental clinics.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;padding:5px 0px;"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">If you have prior experience working as a dental nurse in Community, we would love to hear from you! </span></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;padding:5px 0px;"><strong style="font-weight:700;"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">As you will work flexibly across sites, a UK driving license and access to a car for work purpose would be required for the role. </span></strong></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;padding:5px 0px;"><strong style="font-weight:700;"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;">Interviews are likely to be conducted Wednesday 8th July.</span></strong></p><p style="margin:0cm;font-size:15px;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif;padding:5px 0px;"><span style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
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Employer details Employer name HCRG Care Group
Address HCRG Care Group
Guildford
Surrey
GU2 4AX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/ (Opens in a new tab)