Band 4 Dental Nurse-Oral Surgery/Oral Medicine/Unscheduled Dental Care

Overview

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

Are you looking for a new exciting career within the NHS? Are you patient focussed and want to deliver high quality dental care?

We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic and hard working dental nurse to join the Ground Floor Dental Nursing team covering Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine and Emergency Dental Care.

The post holder will be expected to support the evening and weekend clinical activity on a rota basis. Full time and Part time applications are invited.

To work flexibly within a dental team providing high quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across localities within the Dental Service, based at Birmingham Dental Hospital (BDH) and Community Dental Services (CDS) including Mobile Clinics and/or additional external sites as required.

Dental Nurses will be expected to work flexibly across the Dental Hospital and within our outreach sites.

To provide chair side assistance to clinicians within the dental service.

To carry out clerical and administrative duties to ensure efficient operation of the clinic/department.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a high standard of patient care and confidentiality within all dental clinics throughout the service.
• To prepare and monitor patients for and during their dental treatment, providing pre and post operative instructions as required.
• To undertake the general care of the surgery including dental equipment/instruments (medical devices) and arrange any necessary repairs as required.
• To ensure medical emergency drugs and equipment are available and up to date.
• To provide chair side assistance and postoperative instructions during general anaesthetic and exodontia sessions as required.
• To provide oral health education to patients as required by the clinician.
• To assist the Senior Dental Nurse in the smooth running of the Dental service.
• To support and assist clinicians including all student disciplines.
• To support and supervise all apprentice nurses, undergraduate groups.

Additional information

For a detailed description of the role, please see attached Band 4 Qualified Dental Nurse job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Thursday 11 Sep 2025