Dental Nurse

Job summary

Are you a dynamic and enthusiastic NHS dental nurse looking to develop your skills and work within a supportive team environment?

Solent NHS Trust Special Care Dental Service provides dental care for children and adults who have a special need including those with a physical, sensory, intellectual mental, medical, emotional or social impairment or disability or a combination of these that prevent them from accessing care through the General Dental Services.

What can we offer you?

• Full-time or Part-time roles
• Immediate start available
• Career development across the practice with great team support
• A caring and calm environment where our dedicated team of dental professionals can offer the best possible care for patients
• A varied caseload - every day brings new challenges
• Immediate access to advice from experienced colleagues
• Excellent opportunities to upskill to work alongside conscious sedation, General anaesthetic team and domiciliary dentistry
• Access to training to maintain your CPD and boost your clinical skills
• Great Organisational Culture

Our Facilities

• Well established surgeries with 13 clinics across Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
• Bespoke Dental GA site and use of theatre space within local hospitals
• Digital Radiography
• State of the art domiciliary dental units

Are you:

• GDC registered?
• Confident in delivering general NHS Dentistry?
• Looking to build experience in treating children?
• Interested in holistic care for vulnerable people?
• Flexible and passionate about person centred care?

Main duties of the job

• Participate in clinical and surgical procedures, providing chaperone and clinical support to Dental Officer and Dental Therapist. Ensure the smooth running of clinics and provide cover in other areas of the service in case of staff leave or absence, often at short notice.
• To participate in clinical and surgical procedures, providing nursing support to Dental Officer and Dental Therapist, providing high quality patient centred, dental care.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.