Dental Nurse

As a registered dental nurse for HCT you will be responsible for supporting the dental team  to ensure the service user's needs are met through high quality dental care.  As a specialist  service for patients with additional needs you will offer a patient centered approach.

You will be expected to maintain high standards of clinical work whilst carrying out dental nurse duties and  to offer a high level of care for our cohort group.

Thank you for choosing to work for the Special Care Dental service within HCT, you will find it a great place to work with many benefits offered.

We provide all the support and finance to maintain your mandatory training and CPD.

We have vacancies for Band 4 roles across all of our sites in

Hemel Hempstead

Watford

Cheshunt

Letchworth

Alongside all routine dental nursing duties you will;

Assist the dental surgeon in the provision of a complete range of NHS dental care,  to include treatment under inhalation sedation, general anesthesia or IV sedation where appropriate.

Accurately record treatment using the R4 dental electronic system, including charting from the dentist’s instructions at the time of treatment.

You will be required to participate in the annual individual performance review process.

You will be required to carry out other appropriate duties commensurate with the post, eg: school visits, home visits and epidemiology.

Your base will be specified but you will be expected to work at any of the Special Care Dental Service sites throughout Hertfordshire to cover staff sickness/Annual Leave/Study leave etc when required.

There may be the need for you to sit or stand for varying lengths of time in restricted positions and be able to respond to unexpected changes of treatment plan. This may involve the movement of bulky heavy equipment e.g. hoists.

There will be occasional direct exposure to distressing or emotional circumstances such as during the treatment of very sick children or patients with challenging behavior

Whilst it is not a legal requirement, Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust encourages and supports all staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.

We encourage post qualification progression especially in Oral health.

We aim to support band 4 nurses to complete the OH certificate  to be part of the OH team and carry out nurse led clinics