Extended Duties Nurse | Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust in Chigwell

We are looking for a GDC registered extended duties dental nurse to join our team in Hainault Health Centre, Chigwell. The post holder will use their strong evidenced based oral health knowledge to promote good oral health and support schools/early year settings in launching and sustaining an effective and safe toothbrushing scheme. They will have high standards of infection control and be comfortable working independently, managing a varied work load, across multiple sites. This role will include travel within NE London.

As a GDC registered extended duties dental nurse you will be working as part of the Oral Health Promotion Team based in three locations across North East London. Your key responsibilities will be helping to launch and deliver the National Supervised Toothbrushing Programme across North East London. Specifically, this will include delivering training to staff in schools and early years settings within the community in line with national public health guidance using pre-designed PowerPoint templates and toolkits. You will work closely with your Oral Health Practitioner and there may be occasions for you to support the wider team at Oral Health Promotion events within the community. There will be some office-based work to prepare for these supervised toothbrushing training sessions. You will need to be enthusiastic, organised, flexible, have good communication skills, and excellent time management.

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.

Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive and Excellent. We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.

We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via kentchft.recruitment@nhs.net, quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

Good luck! We can’t wait to meet you and welcome you to #teamKCHFT, #cometocommunity.

This advert closes on Monday 10 Aug 2026.