Senior Dental Nurse

This is an exciting opportunity for a

dental nurse looking for something a little different to a regular dental

practice. As a Senior Dental Nurse, you will provide visible leadership and

support to the dental team, working closely with the Dental Operations Manager,

Clinical Lead, Operational Specialists and Senior Dental Nurses to ensure safe,

effective and efficient service delivery. You will be involved with

supporting staff performance, clinical governance activity, quality assurance

processes and patient experience initiatives, whilst maintaining a strong

clinical understanding of urgent dental care.

Working within urgent dental care can

be fast-paced and unpredictable, so you will be comfortable managing competing

priorities, remaining calm under pressure and supporting others through

challenging situations.

role includes a clinical nursing element, providing one nursing session every

two weeks as part of the contracted hours. This ensures continued understanding

of service delivery, patient needs and building of good relationships and

support with our team.

A caring and compassionate personality is extremely important, confident in speaking to patients, and able to work in a busy and sometimes challenging environment, remain calm under pressure. Fully supported by our experience Dental Nurse Supervisors. Able to have fun and develop good relationships with the team.

Provide visible leadership and day-to-day operational support to

the Morecambe dental service, promoting a positive, professional and

patient-focused culture.

Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead and wider dental

leadership team to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of services.

Lead on recruitment, induction, training, supervision and

development of staff, including conducting appraisals, one-to-one meetings and

performance support conversations where required. Promoting teamwork,

engagement, wellbeing and professional standards.

Managing safeguarding concerns in line with organisational

policies, ensuring appropriate escalation and documentation where required. To

work closely with the safeguarding lead and external stakeholders.

Support patients in accessing appropriate services where required.

Lead and support infection prevention and control processes,

ensuring compliance with HTM 01-05, CQC regulations and local governance

Support quality assurance activities including audits, action

plans, local policy reviews and service improvement.

Contribute to clinical governance, incident reporting,

investigations and organisational learning, promoting a culture of openness,

safety and continuous improvement.

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal

teams, local dental practices, referral services, Internal and external

stakeholders to support patient pathways and service delivery.

Facilitate regular team meetings, communications and engagement

activities to ensure staff remain informed, supported and involved in service

developments.

Maintain compliance with all mandatory training, professional

registration requirements and organisational policies.

Undertake any other reasonable duties consistent with the

responsibilities and objectives of the post

Self-awareness

Living authentically

Adaptability-

Being ready to adjust depending on the situation

Openness

What you see is what you get

Positivity

with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible

Generosity

of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness

Ability

to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

Why: To nurture

an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our

world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values: Our organisational culture is very important

to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives

and breathescomplimentary

values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which

Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are

having fun. Happiness is healthy!

Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here

to be awesome!

Humble: Were here to make a difference to the

lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become

Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the

courage to get the difficult jobs done

Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!

Go-getting

We are intuitive to

changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and

positivity.

As

users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all

disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and as

such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the

Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any

previous criminal convictions. This will require three forms of valid ID to be

produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an

Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to

work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as

evidence). For Driver

positions you will also be required to undertake a Driver check.

The organisation is committed to

safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable

adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be

expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable

to this role.

We reserve

the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for

the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your

application as early as possible.

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health and

wellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure that

patients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled with

excellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremely

effective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the ability

to strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we have

a core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of our

patients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the service

delivery and user experience due to their considerable experience and

commitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

Experience

Essential: - Knowledge on decontamination compliance, audit processes

Desirable: - Staff management or supervisory experience, preferably within a dental setting.; - Dentally software.

Qualifications

Essential: - NVQ L3 or equivalent in Dental Nursing.; - GDC registered Dental Nurse

Desirable: - Radiography

Other

Desirable: - Computer/IT Skills; - Operational/Management Skills