Senior Dental Nurse

Job description

Job summary

Welcome to FCMS!

FCMS is commissioned by the Lancashire and South CumbriaIntegrated Care Board (ICB) to provide NHS urgent and emergency dental careservices across Lancashire, operating from sites in Blackpool, Morecambe,Blackburn and Burnley. Our service operates 365 days a year, deliveringhigh-quality, patient-centred urgent dental care during evenings, weekends,bank holidays and out-of-hours periods.

We are seeking a caring, compassionateand an approachable individual. You must be a people person, be able tocommunicate warmly with patients and team members.

As a visible leader within the team,you will be approachable, reliable and committed to developing both yourselfand those around you. You will enjoy working collaboratively, contributingideas for improvement and helping to create an environment where colleaguesfeel valued, supported and able to perform at their best.

Most importantly, you will share ourvalues, bring energy and enthusiasm to the role, and understand the importanceof building strong relationships whilst having fun along the way

Pay: £15.23 per hour, Weekend & Bank Holiday Enhancements.

Hours: 20 hoursper week with flexible working

Base: QueenVictoria Centre, Morecambe & Newfield House, Blackpool

*Pleasenote that our roles are not being considered for sponsorship at this time*

*Ifyou are looking for more than 20 hours, the position can be supplemented withadditional clinical sessions evenings and weekends*

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity for adental nurse looking for something a little different to a regular dentalpractice. As a Senior Dental Nurse, you will provide visible leadership andsupport 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 withsupporting staff performance, clinical governance activity, quality assuranceprocesses and patient experience initiatives, whilst maintaining a strongclinical understanding of urgent dental care.

Working within urgent dental care canbe fast-paced and unpredictable, so you will be comfortable managing competingpriorities, remaining calm under pressure and supporting others throughchallenging situations.

Therole includes a clinical nursing element, providing one nursing session everytwo weeks as part of the contracted hours. This ensures continued understandingof service delivery, patient needs and building of good relationships andsupport 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.

About us

The ethos of FCMS as a social enterprise, health andwellbeing services provider is to be passionate in its drive to ensure thatpatients and callers remain the central focus of all that it does. Coupled withexcellent and well-established clinical governance systems and extremelyeffective operational expertise, it has meant that the company has the abilityto strategically visualise, develop, and implement award winning services.

Over many years we have invested in our staff so that we havea core team of highly trained individuals who can manage the needs of ourpatients and callers. Our staff are able to significantly improve the servicedelivery and user experience due to their considerable experience andcommitment to what they do.

Come and be a part of our amazing team!

We offer NHS Pension

Cycle to Work Scheme

Career Development Opportunities

Attendance Bonus

Staff Benefit Scheme

Free Tea & Coffee

Eye Care Contributions

Job description

Job responsibilities

KeyDuties and Responsibilities:

Provide visible leadership and day-to-day operational support tothe Morecambe dental service, promoting a positive, professional andpatient-focused culture.

Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead and wider dentalleadership team to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of services.

Lead on recruitment, induction, training, supervision anddevelopment of staff, including conducting appraisals, one-to-one meetings andperformance support conversations where required. Promoting teamwork,engagement, wellbeing and professional standards.

Managing safeguarding concerns in line with organisationalpolicies, ensuring appropriate escalation and documentation where required. Towork 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 governancerequirements.

Support quality assurance activities including audits, actionplans, 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 internalteams, local dental practices, referral services, Internal and externalstakeholders to support patient pathways and service delivery.

Facilitate regular team meetings, communications and engagementactivities to ensure staff remain informed, supported and involved in servicedevelopments.

Maintain compliance with all mandatory training, professionalregistration requirements and organisational policies.

Undertake any other reasonable duties consistent with theresponsibilities and objectives of the post

Our key expectations are:

Self-awareness Living authentically

Adaptability-Being ready to adjust depending on the situation

Openness What you see is what you get

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

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

Abilityto have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

OurWhy: To nurturean environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in ourworld receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values:Our organisational culture is very importantto us, so it is vital that the successful candidate livesand breathescomplimentaryvalues and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values whichform part of our Company DNA:

Fun: People rarely succeed unless they arehaving fun. Happiness is healthy!

Awesome: We arent here to be average, were hereto be awesome!

Humble: Were here to make a difference to thelives of others, NOT to see how important we can become

Brave: We challenge the norm. We have thecourage to get the difficult jobs done

Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!

Go-getting:We are intuitive tochanging needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, andpositivity.

DisabilityConfident Employer

Asusers of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview alldisabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

DBS - This postis subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and assuch it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to theDisclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for anyprevious criminal convictions. This will require three forms of valid ID to beproduced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to anOccupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility towork in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation asevidence). For Driverpositions you will also be required to undertake a Driver check.

The organisation is committed tosafeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerableadults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will beexpected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicableto this role.

We reservethe right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications forthe role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit yourapplication as early as possible.

Job description
Job responsibilities

KeyDuties and Responsibilities:

Provide visible leadership and day-to-day operational support tothe Morecambe dental service, promoting a positive, professional andpatient-focused culture.

Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead and wider dentalleadership team to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of services.

Lead on recruitment, induction, training, supervision anddevelopment of staff, including conducting appraisals, one-to-one meetings andperformance support conversations where required. Promoting teamwork,engagement, wellbeing and professional standards.

Managing safeguarding concerns in line with organisationalpolicies, ensuring appropriate escalation and documentation where required. Towork 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 governancerequirements.

Support quality assurance activities including audits, actionplans, 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 internalteams, local dental practices, referral services, Internal and externalstakeholders to support patient pathways and service delivery.

Facilitate regular team meetings, communications and engagementactivities to ensure staff remain informed, supported and involved in servicedevelopments.

Maintain compliance with all mandatory training, professionalregistration requirements and organisational policies.

Undertake any other reasonable duties consistent with theresponsibilities and objectives of the post

Our key expectations are:

Self-awareness Living authentically

Adaptability-Being ready to adjust depending on the situation

Openness What you see is what you get

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

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

Abilityto have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself

OurWhy: To nurturean environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in ourworld receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next.

Values:Our organisational culture is very importantto us, so it is vital that the successful candidate livesand breathescomplimentaryvalues and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values whichform part of our Company DNA:

Fun: People rarely succeed unless they arehaving fun. Happiness is healthy!

Awesome: We arent here to be average, were hereto be awesome!

Humble: Were here to make a difference to thelives of others, NOT to see how important we can become

Brave: We challenge the norm. We have thecourage to get the difficult jobs done

Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious!

Go-getting:We are intuitive tochanging needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, andpositivity.

DisabilityConfident Employer

Asusers of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview alldisabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy

DBS - This postis subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption Order) 1975 and assuch it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to theDisclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for anyprevious criminal convictions. This will require three forms of valid ID to beproduced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to anOccupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility towork in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation asevidence). For Driverpositions you will also be required to undertake a Driver check.

The organisation is committed tosafeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerableadults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will beexpected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicableto this role.

We reservethe right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications forthe role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit yourapplication as early as possible.

Person Specification

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

Essential

• Strong knowledge and understanding of HTM01-05, CQC compliance and auditing.
• Honest, Kind & Compassionate
• Ensuring our culture is always upheld.
• Teamworking and able to work autonomously.

Desirable

• Computer/IT Skills
• Operational/Management Skills

Person Specification
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

Essential

• Strong knowledge and understanding of HTM01-05, CQC compliance and auditing.
• Honest, Kind & Compassionate
• Ensuring our culture is always upheld.
• Teamworking and able to work autonomously.

Desirable

• Computer/IT Skills
• Operational/Management Skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions 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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions 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.
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

FCMS
Address

FCMS

EDS Queen Victoria Hospital

Thornton Road

Morecambe

Lancashire

LA4 5NN

United Kingdom

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