Band 4 Dental Nurse

Main area Dental Nurse Grade Band Band 4 Contract Permanent Hours Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Working days to be Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Based in the Birmingham Dental Hospital, Floor 2 - Restorative
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Employer Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Birmingham Dental Hospital Town Birmingham Salary £27,485 - £30,162 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 04/03/2026 23:59

Are you looking for a new exciting career within the NHS? Are you patient focussed and want to deliver high quality dental care?

We are seeking enthusiastic, hard working dental nurses to join the Community Dental Nursing Team.

We currently have a vacancy for a Band 4 Dental Nurse:

22.5 hours / 0.6 WTE / Working days to be Monday, Tuesday, and Friday. Based at the Birmingham Dental Hospital

Working flexibly within the dental team to provide high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service, based at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH).

Dental Nurses will be expected to work flexibly within the Birmingham Dental Hospital departments and occasionally supporting community dental service

• To provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.
• To carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.

Maintain a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within all dental clinics throughout the service.

• To prepare and monitor patients for and during their dental treatment, providing pre and post operative instructions as required.
• To undertake the general care of the surgery including dental equipment/instruments (medical devices) and arrange any necessary repairs as required.
• To ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available and up to date.
• To provide chair side assistance and postoperative instructions during general anaesthetic and exodontia sessions as required.
• To provide oral health education to patients as required by the clinician
• To assist the Senior Dental Nurse and Specialty Nurses in the smooth running of the Dental service.
• To support and assist clinicians including all student disciplines.
• To support and supervise all apprentice nurses, undergraduate groups.

Be Part Of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part Of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

For a detailed description of the role, please see attached Band 4 Qualified Dental Nurse job description and person specification

• Professional Registration with General Dental Council
• Other Dental Nursing post qualifications

• Relevant experience working as part of a dental team, e.g. General Practice, Hospital, other Primary Dental Services / Community Dental Services experiencing chair side duties
• Experience of working with children, elderly, medically compromised patients, and patients with learning disabilities

In accordance with UK Home Office requirements, Band 2 clinical and non-clinical roles and Band 3 Non-Clinical roles are not eligible for sponsorship.

Please note that the majority of non-clinical roles (Agenda for Change Band 3
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