Apprentice Dental Nurse

THE ORCHID DENTAL & AESTHETIC LTD

BRACKLEY, NN13 7EP

Closes in 19 days (Wednesday 19 February at 11:59pm)

Posted on 30 January 2025

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Summary

Apprentice to train as a dental nurse in our private dental practice. Small friendly team.

Wage
£12,979.20 a year

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Training course
Dental nurse (GDC 2023) (level 3)
Hours
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 8.30am - 5.15pm Thursday 8.30am - 6.15pm Friday 8.30am - 1.15pm

39 hours a week

Possible start date

Monday 24 February

Duration

1 year 3 months

Positions available

2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Assist dentist, hygienist or therapist by providing dental chairside support duties relevant to stage of competence under supervision of a named GDC registrant in accordance with the GDC guidance for trainee dental nurses.

  • Keep a log of your structured induction and on-going compliance training
  • Work towards a nationally recognised qualification leading to the registration with the GDC
  • Follow all practice policies and procedures
  • Establish, promote and maintain productive working relationships with all of the dental team
  • Liaise with the practice manager on all matters concerning administration, pay and conditions
  • Assist with reception duties and perform other clerical duties if required
  • Take reasonable care for your own health and safety and that of others who may be affected by your work
  • Key tasks to be carried out under supervision
  • Develop and demonstrate competence in chairside support
  • Working with dental materials across a range of dental treatment procedures
  • Working with a wide range of dental instruments and equipment relevant for dental procedures

    Decontamination and preparation of treatment rooms for a range of dental procedures

    Decontamination of dental devices using appropriate practice decontamination equipment after receiving the necessary vaccinations

    Decontamination equipment maintenance in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions

    Waste segregation and disposal in accordance with the practice policies and procedures

    Use of the practice computer and X-ray systems

    Completion of laboratory request forms and keeping records of all items sent, received and fitted

    Checking that all necessary laboratory work is returned and ready for each session

Provide patient support by:

  • Liaising with reception over appointments for each patient
  • Escorting patients from the waiting room to the surgery, confirming the patient’s medical history is up-to-date and communicating to the dentist [hygienist/therapist] any change in medical history or problems that he/she has noted
  • Monitoring, supporting and reassuring patients
  • Supporting the patient and colleagues if there is an emergency
  • Providing appropriate advice to patients
  • Perform chaperoning duties for other clinical GDC registrant
  • Follow professional ethical guidelines including all rules on confidentiality
  • Perform reception duties
  • Answer telephone, receive mail, email
  • Meet and greet patients and/or carers
  • Manage the appointment book, send appointments by mail/email
  • Maintain recall systems
  • File patient clinical records and correspondence securely and ensure they are kept up-to-date
  • Maintain and promote patient confidentiality in relation to patient medical history, details of treatment, financial transactions or any conversation overheard
  • Process patient payments
  • Attend agreed competence and development trainin
  • Induction and other structured in-house sessions
  • External training sessions leading to your qualification
  • Practice compliance meetings and training, including annual training for medical emergencies and CPR
  • Perform other tasks
  • Assist in all clerical and administrative duties as required by the principal
  • Report equipment failures or breakages to the practice manager
  • Bring to the attention of the principal or practice manager any concerns about aspects of the practice, its performance or the performance of others in the practice
  • Attend all practice meetings as requested
  • Perform any other tasks that are reasonably requested by the principal

Where you’ll work

4 BRIDGE STREET

BRACKLEY

NN13 7EP

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

TEMP DENT DENTAL AGENCY LIMITED

Your training course

Dental nurse (GDC 2023) (level 3)

Equal to A level

Course contents
  • Identify relevant and appropriate dental, oral, craniofacial, and general anatomy, recognising the diversity of anatomy across the patient population.
  • Evaluate the health risks of prescribed, non-prescribed and recreational drug use and misuse on oral and general health.
  • Evaluate the scientific principles underpinning the use of materials and Biomaterials, their limitations and selection, with emphasis on those used in dentistry.
  • Identify the signs of abuse, neglect or emotional trauma, explain local and national systems that safeguard the welfare of children and adults.
  • Identify the signs of normal and abnormal facial growth, physical, mental and dental development milestones and explain their significance.
  • Assess patients’ levels of anxiety, experience, and expectations in respect of dental care and oral health.
  • Contribute to relevant special investigations and diagnostic procedures.
  • Undertake orthodontic assessment.
  • Obtain valid consent from patients explaining all the relevant factors and taking into account the legal requirements where appropriate within scope of practice.
  • Record an accurate and contemporaneous patient history.
  • Accurately record dental charting as carried out by other appropriate registrants.
  • Accurately record an oral health assessment.
  • Prepare records, images, equipment and materials for clinical assessment.
  • Process and manage dental radiographs and images.
  • Manage patient anxiety appropriately, effectively, and safely.
  • Monitor, support and reassure patients through effective communication and behavioural techniques.
  • Identify changes in the patient’s reported oral health status and take appropriate action.
  • Make arrangements for follow-up care as prescribed by the operator.
  • Provide chairside support to the operator during treatment.
  • Prepare, mix and handle dental materials.
  • Identify and explain the risks within and around the clinical environment and manage these in a safe and effective manner.
  • Implement, perform, and manage effective decontamination and infection control procedures according to current guidelines.
  • Prepare and maintain the clinical environment including the instruments and equipment.
  • Identify, assess, and manage medical emergencies.
  • Provide patients/carers with comprehensive, personalised preventive advice, instruction, and intervention in a manner which is accessible, promotes self-care and motivates patients/carers to comply with advice and take responsibility to maintain and improve oral health.
  • Support the management of patients with acute oral conditions ensuring involvement of appropriate dental team members.
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to clinical practice.
  • Communicate effectively and sensitively, tailoring to context, by spoken, written and or electronic means with all patients, including patients whose first language is not English, using representatives or interpreters where necessary, in relation to patients with anxious or challenging behaviour or special considerations such as emotional trauma and difficult circumstances, such as breaking bad news, or discussing issues such as alcohol consumption, smoking, or diet.
  • Communicate effectively and sensitively by spoken, written and electronic means with the public.
  • Communicate effectively by spoken, written and electronic means with colleagues from dental and other healthcare professions in relation to the direct care of individual patients, oral health promotion and raising concerns when problems arise, including where patients cause distress to staff.
  • Maintain contemporaneous, complete and accurate patient records in accordance with legal requirements and best practice.
  • Communicate with care, compassion, empathy and respect in all professional interactions with patients, their representatives, the public and colleagues.
  • Communicate appropriately and effectively in professional discussions and transactions.
  • Give feedback effectively to other members of the team.
  • Respect the roles of dental and other healthcare professionals in the context of learning and working in a dental and wider healthcare team.
  • Demonstrate effective team working.
  • Contribute to your team in providing dental care for patients.
  • Where appropriate manage, refer or delegate work according to the scope of practice of members of the dental team, in line with competence and professional practice.
  • Take a patient-centred approach to working with the dental and wider healthcare team.
  • Raise concerns where appropriate about your own or others’ health, behaviour or professional performance.
  • Comply with systems and processes to support safe patient care.
  • Act in accordance with current best practice guidelines.
  • Act in accordance with national and local clinical governance and health and safety requirements.
  • Act within the legal frameworks which inform personal behaviour, the delivery of healthcare and the protection and promotion of the health of individual patients.
  • Act with integrity and ensure your actions maintain the trust of colleagues, patients, and the public in you, your team, and the profession across all environments and media.
  • Demonstrate personal accountability to patients, the regulator, the team and wider community.
  • Work in partnership with colleagues to develop and maintain an effective and supportive environment which promotes the safety and wellbeing of the patient and dental team.
  • Where appropriate lead, manage and take professional responsibility for the actions of colleagues and other members of the team involved in patient care.
  • Where appropriate support patients to negotiate the barriers and challenges which prevent sections of the population accessing oral healthcare, including patients from marginalised populations and patients with protected characteristics.
  • Treat your patients, members of the public and your colleagues with dignity and respect and without discrimination.
  • Support patients to make informed decisions about their care, making their interests your first concern.
  • Demonstrate cultural competence, accepting and respecting the diversity of patients and colleagues.
  • Provide the best possible outcome for your patients by using your knowledge and skills, acting as an advocate for their needs where appropriate.
  • Speak up to protect others from harm.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of evidence-based prevention at a community and or population level.
  • Proactively address discriminatory language, behaviour and microaggressions from colleagues, patients and other professionals.
  • Evaluate the role of health promotion in terms of the changing environment, community and individual behaviours to deliver health gain.
  • Evaluate and apply the evidence base in relation to the environmental impacts of common treatment methods and approaches to the delivery of oral healthcare.
  • Contribute positively to the healthcare communities of which you are a part.
  • Evaluate an evidence base.
  • Utilise the receipt of effective feedback in the professional development of self.
  • Demonstrate personal development planning, recording of evidence, and reflective practice.
  • Evaluate the impact of new techniques and technologies as they relate to dental nurse practice.
  • Accurately assess your own capabilities and limitations in the interest of high-quality patient care and seek advice from supervisors or colleagues where appropriate.
  • Recognise personal assumptions, biases and prejudices and manage the impact of these on patient care and professional behaviour with colleagues, patients and wider society.
  • Recognise the impact of contextual factors on the health care environment and patient safety and manage this professionally.
  • Demonstrate own professional responsibility in the development of self.
  • Develop and maintain professional knowledge and competence.
  • Demonstrate engagement with systems and personal strategies which promote and maintain physical and mental wellbeing.
  • Demonstrate appropriate continuous improvement activities.
  • Recognise when and how to take action if wellbeing is compromised to a point of affecting an individual’s role or professional relationships.
  • Effectively manage your own time and resources.
  • Underpin all patient care with a preventive approach, that takes account of patient compliance and self-care, to contribute to the patient’s long-term oral and general health.
  • Identify relevant and appropriate dental, oral, craniofacial, and general anatomy, recognising the diversity of anatomy across the patient population.
  • Evaluate the health risks of prescribed, non-prescribed and recreational drug use and misuse on oral and general health.
  • Evaluate the scientific principles underpinning the use of materials and Biomaterials, their limitations and selection, with emphasis on those used in dentistry.
  • Identify the signs of abuse, neglect or emotional trauma, explain local and national systems that safeguard the welfare of children and adults.
  • Identify the signs of normal and abnormal facial growth, physical, mental and dental development milestones and explain their significance.
  • Assess patients’ levels of anxiety, experience, and expectations in respect of dental care and oral health.
  • Contribute to relevant special investigations and diagnostic procedures.
  • Undertake orthodontic assessment.
  • Obtain valid consent from patients explaining all the relevant factors and taking into account the legal requirements where appropriate within scope of practice.
  • Record an accurate and contemporaneous patient history.
  • Accurately record dental charting as carried out by other appropriate registrants.
  • Accurately record an oral health assessment.
  • Prepare records, images, equipment and materials for clinical assessment.
  • Process and manage dental radiographs and images.
  • Manage patient anxiety appropriately, effectively, and safely.
  • Monitor, support and reassure patients through effective communication and behavioural techniques.
  • Identify changes in the patient’s reported oral health status and take appropriate action.
  • Make arrangements for follow-up care as prescribed by the operator.
  • Provide chairside support to the operator during treatment.
  • Prepare, mix and handle dental materials.
  • Identify and explain the risks within and around the clinical environment and manage these in a safe and effective manner.
  • Implement, perform, and manage effective decontamination and infection control procedures according to current guidelines.
  • Prepare and maintain the clinical environment including the instruments and equipment.
  • Identify, assess, and manage medical emergencies.
  • Provide patients/carers with comprehensive, personalised preventive advice, instruction, and intervention in a manner which is accessible, promotes self-care and motivates patients/carers to comply with advice and take responsibility to maintain and improve oral health.
  • Support the management of patients with acute oral conditions ensuring involvement of appropriate dental team members.
  • Adopt an evidence-based approach to clinical practice.
  • Communicate effectively and sensitively, tailoring to context, by spoken, written and or electronic means with all patients, including patients whose first language is not English, using representatives or interpreters where necessary, in relation to patients with anxious or challenging behaviour or special considerations such as emotional trauma and difficult circumstances, such as breaking bad news, or discussing issues such as alcohol consumption, smoking, or diet.
  • Communicate effectively and sensitively by spoken, written and electronic means with the public.
  • Communicate effectively by spoken, written and electronic means with colleagues from dental and other healthcare professions in relation to the direct care of individual patients, oral health promotion and raising concerns when problems arise, including where patients cause distress to staff.
  • Maintain contemporaneous, complete and accurate patient records in accordance with legal requirements and best practice.
  • Communicate with care, compassion, empathy and respect in all professional interactions with patients, their representatives, the public and colleagues.
  • Communicate appropriately and effectively in professional discussions and transactions.
  • Give feedback effectively to other members of the team.
  • Respect the roles of dental and other healthcare professionals in the context of learning and working in a dental and wider healthcare team.
  • Demonstrate effective team working.
  • Contribute to your team in providing dental care for patients.
  • Where appropriate manage, refer or delegate work according to the scope of practice of members of the dental team, in line with competence and professional practice.
  • Take a patient-centred approach to working with the dental and wider healthcare team.
  • Raise concerns where appropriate about your own or others’ health, behaviour or professional performance.
  • Comply with systems and processes to support safe patient care.
  • Act in accordance with current best practice guidelines.
  • Act in accordance with national and local clinical governance and health and safety requirements.
  • Act within the legal frameworks which inform personal behaviour, the delivery of healthcare and the protection and promotion of the health of individual patients.
  • Act with integrity and ensure your actions maintain the trust of colleagues, patients, and the public in you, your team, and the profession across all environments and media.
  • Demonstrate personal accountability to patients, the regulator, the team and wider community.
  • Work in partnership with colleagues to develop and maintain an effective and supportive environment which promotes the safety and wellbeing of the patient and dental team.
  • Where appropriate lead, manage and take professional responsibility for the actions of colleagues and other members of the team involved in patient care.
  • Where appropriate support patients to negotiate the barriers and challenges which prevent sections of the population accessing oral healthcare, including patients from marginalised populations and patients with protected characteristics.
  • Treat your patients, members of the public and your colleagues with dignity and respect and without discrimination.
  • Support patients to make informed decisions about their care, making their interests your first concern.
  • Demonstrate cultural competence, accepting and respecting the diversity of patients and colleagues.
  • Provide the best possible outcome for your patients by using your knowledge and skills, acting as an advocate for their needs where appropriate.
  • Speak up to protect others from harm.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of evidence-based prevention at a community and or population level.
  • Proactively address discriminatory language, behaviour and microaggressions from colleagues, patients and other professionals.
  • Evaluate the role of health promotion in terms of the changing environment, community and individual behaviours to deliver health gain.
  • Evaluate and apply the evidence base in relation to the environmental impacts of common treatment methods and approaches to the delivery of oral healthcare.
  • Contribute positively to the healthcare communities of which you are a part.
  • Evaluate an evidence base.
  • Utilise the receipt of effective feedback in the professional development of self.
  • Demonstrate personal development planning, recording of evidence, and reflective practice.
  • Evaluate the impact of new techniques and technologies as they relate to dental nurse practice.
  • Accurately assess your own capabilities and limitations in the interest of high-quality patient care and seek advice from supervisors or colleagues where appropriate.
  • Recognise personal assumptions, biases and prejudices and manage the impact of these on patient care and professional behaviour with colleagues, patients and wider society.
  • Recognise the impact of contextual factors on the health care environment and patient safety and manage this professionally.
  • Demonstrate own professional responsibility in the development of self.
  • Develop and maintain professional knowledge and competence.
  • Demonstrate engagement with systems and personal strategies which promote and maintain physical and mental wellbeing.
  • Demonstrate appropriate continuous improvement activities.
  • Recognise when and how to take action if wellbeing is compromised to a point of affecting an individual’s role or professional relationships.
  • Effectively manage your own time and resources.
  • Underpin all patient care with a preventive approach, that takes account of patient compliance and self-care, to contribute to the patient’s long-term oral and general health.

Your training plan

  • Training will be carried out in the workplace. Once the course begins it will be roughly 6 hours a week.

More training information

  • The course is structured by weekly webinars and assessments and a final exam at the end of the course. 

Requirements

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Customer care skills
  • Logical
  • Team working
  • Initiative
  • Non judgemental

About this company

We are a private dental practice with 1 full time dentist, 1 part-time dentist and 2 hygienists

After this apprenticeship

  • Further qualifications can be taken in implant nursing, radiography, sedation nursing, oral health practitioner training or further education in hygiene or therapy. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE ORCHID DENTAL & AESTHETIC LTD

Mandy Bryan

team@theorchidclinic.co.uk

01280703125

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000298980.

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Closes in 19 days (Wednesday 19 February at 11:59pm)

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