Dental Nurse

Job summary

West End Manse Dentalis excited to offer an opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our friendly team as a dental nurse to work on a full-time basis.

The primary responsibility of the role will be to provide clinical support for a wide range of treatments across a broad client base, working alongside highly experienced dental clinicians, therapists, nurses and receptionists.

We are also recruiting a trainee/apprentice dental nurse - further details can be found here: Trainee/Apprentice Dental Nurse in Haverhill - Primary Care Careers

Main duties of the job

• Assisting in the full range of dental care provided to patients, from supporting with routine examinations to advanced specialist treatments.
• Welcoming patients and reassuring them of the treatments.
• Providing chair support whilst patients receive treatments, responding quickly to requests.
• Assisting with all aspects of patient dental care and treatment including check-ups to fillings, x-rays to sterilising tools.
• Preparing and mixing dental materials.
• Maintaining and updating patient records.
• Stock control.
• Reassuring patients, responding to individual patient needs.
• Undertaking reception duties when required e.g., greeting service users, answering the telephone, making appointments, explaining service user charges and collecting service user charges.
• Liaising with the dental team, senior leaders and wider colleagues to maintain the effective running of the dental service.

About us

We are a mixed NHS and private dental surgery located in the centre of Haverhill. We have 5 surgeries with 3 dentists, 1 therapist and 2 hygienists. We have 6 nurses and 1 receptionist and a practice manager.