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Job Description
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- Role model behaviours in accordance with the Trust Behavioural Framework.
- Ensure best possible dental nursing care and practice including those with complex medical, physical and emotional needs.
- Provide close support to dentistry, maintaining high standards of patient care and infection control.
- Learn new skills in line with new practices, qualifications and modernisation.
- Have commitment to continuing professional development.
- Registered Dental Nurse qualification or NVQ Level 3 in Oral Healthcare.
- Evidence of maintaining CPD
- Good written/communication skills
- Registered Dental Nurse qualification or NVQ Level 3 in Oral Healthcare.
- Evidence of maintaining CPD
- Good written/communication skills
Job summary
The post is based at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.
Fully registered with the General Dental Council with Personal Development Plan and CPD records.
The successful candidate must demonstrate an attitude that respects and values service users and also the core values of Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate both our Trust values and our culture of compassionate care.
(Hours are worked from Monday - Friday including evening clinics.)
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work predominantly within the Department of Paediatric Dentistry, Maxillofacial and Orthodontics.
About us
We have already earned our place as one of the world's leading children's hospitals, thanks to innovation and pioneering medical work. We treat 250,000 young patients a year and safely perform over 13,000 surgical procedures. Our catchment area has a population of over 7m, stretching from Cumbria, through Lancashire, Merseyside, most of Cheshire, parts of Shropshire, North Wales and the Isle of Man.
Children from virtually every part of the UK, and also from around the world, visit Alder Hey for specialist treatment. As a result, we are recognised as a Centre of Excellence for children with cancer, heart, spinal and brain disease and have been designated as a National Centre for craniofacial surgery and epilepsy surgery by the Department of Health.
With a world class £237 million facility that opened in October 2015 we are now looking to recruit a motivated and committed Dental Nurse in Paediatric Dentistry within the Division of Surgical Care.
It is the primary objective of this post to contribute to patient care within the specialty of Paediatric Dentistry as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
Being part of Alder Hey can provide you with staff benefits including Lease Car Scheme, Smoking Cessation Services, Childcare and Family Support, Childcare vouchers and the new Electronics home salary sacrifice scheme.
Date posted
17 April 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£26,530 to £29,114 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
411-SUR-25-7152261
Job locations
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Eaton Road
Liverpool
L12 2AP
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for the full duties and the main responsibilities of the role.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description for the full duties and the main responsibilities of the role.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Registered Dental Nurse qualification or NVQ Level 3 in Oral Healthcare.
Essential
Desirable
Registered Dental Nurse qualification or NVQ Level 3 in Oral Healthcare.
Essential
Desirable
Additional informationDisclosure 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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Eaton Road
Liverpool
L12 2AP
Employer's website
https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Eaton Road
Liverpool
L12 2AP
Employer's website
https://alderhey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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