Dental nurse

Job Overview

The Dental Nurse (DN) will work within the nursing team, under the direction of the OPD managers and leadership team. Supporting the nurse in-charge.

The DN will be expected to manage the Dental department.

To function as a DN providing direct patient care in accordance with local and national protocols, standards and competences.

To support and facilitate assessments of unregistered staff where appropriate

Associate mentor staff as required.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure patient records are maintained accurately in line with local and national standards, digital strategy, Information Governance and General Data Protection regulation
• Carry out all administrative and other duties that are required, working effectively to provide safe, evidence-based and cost-effective care.
• To demonstrate a sound knowledge of the principles of infection control, including monthly hand hygiene audits, adhering to the highest standards when performing aseptic technique and complying with Trust Infection Control Policies at all times.
• To ensure safe, appropriate and timely monitoring, recovary and discharge from department following treatment and interventional procedures.
• To participate in the provision of information to patients and their carers regarding disease, treatments, health advice, screening and services available for their needs.
• To ensure patient records are maintained accurately in line with local and national standards, digital strategy, Information Governance and General Data Protection Regulations.
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To behave in a manner as laid down in the GDC Code of Professional Conduct and competencies.
• To be a professional and clinical role model for others
• To have greater responsibilities and extended roles in comparison to a Healthcare Assitant.
• To lead IN THE Dental department in conjuction with the Nurse-in-charge.
• To support the senior team to achieve a high standard of evidence based care, procedures and treatment specific to the clinical need, working within the Trust competency framework appropriate to role and scope of practice, including the use of medical devices.
• To demonstrate a sound knowledge of the principles of infection control, including monthly hand hygiene audits, adhering to the highest standards when performing aseptic technique and complying with Trust Infection Control Policies at all times.
• To ensure compliance with all Trust and department policies and guidelines, e.g. (but not limited to) consent, chaperoning, WHO checklist, COSHH, Information Governance.
• To ensure safe, appropriate and timely monitoring, recovary and discharge from department following treatment and interventional procedures.
• To work closely with the multi-disciplinary team ensuring excellent and effective communication is maintained.
• To participate in the provision of information to patients and their carers regarding disease, treatments, health advice, screening and services available for their needs.
• To ensure patient records are maintained accurately in line with local and national standards, digital strategy, Information Governance and General Data Protection Regulations.
• To respond effectively to patient and service devlopments, escalating any issues to the Nurse-in-Charge in a timely and appropriate manner.
• Carry out all administrative and other duties that are required, working effectively to provide safe, evidence-based and cost-effective care.
• To be aware of the Trust complaint and incidents procedure, ensuring incidents are reported and escalated in a timely manner utilising the Trust reporting system appropriately and working with the senior team to ensure learning occurs.
• To attend Outpatient departmental meetings and contribute to educational half-days, sharing learning and keeping up-to-date with the wider nursing agenda and Trust initiatives.
• To assist with implementation of new initiatives and policies, utilizing reflection and clinical supervision as part of your professional development.
• Contribute to achieving individual team and department objectives and quality targets, to maintain an excellent patient experience and service delivery.
• To undertake learning to ensure you are up-to-date with mandatory training and appraisals.
  
  

This job description is an indication of the type and range of tasks that are expected of the postholder, and other duties may be required, in line with the role and the banding. It will be reviewed and amended from time to time in consultation with the post holder to take account of changing organisational need.



Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• UK Registration as a dental nurse
  
  

Desirable criteria

• ORTHODONTIC TRAINED
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• RECENT EXPERIENCE IN NHS
  
  

Desirable criteria

• EXPERIENCE WITHIN OUTPATIENTS
  
  

Skills And Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Ability to work autonomously proactively and as apart of a team . Effective IT skills
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Effective communication
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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