Job overview

The Maxillo Facial Department at Hereford Hospital provides high standards of dental care to patients in and around Herefordshire. As part of this service, we provide orthodontic treatments and dental surgery to patients who have been referred by dentist and clinicians for a variety of reasons. We provide Maxillo Facial services in the department including skin surgery removal for suspected skin cancer and provide follow up care for these patients.

Main duties of the job

·         To provide specialist clinical dental nursing advice to patients/ carers, other health care professionals ensuring that this is understood and complied with. Recognising and implementing the use of appropriate communicational aids and skills, tact, persuasion, to deal with possible barriers to understanding. 

·         To identify each patient’s medical and dental nursing needs, before, during and after treatment of the patient. Advise, triage and prioritise dental emergency patients to ensure they receive the most appropriate care.

·         To support with surgery work providing assistance to the Oral surgeons in the clinical care of patients, this will include, the setting out of instruments, extraction of teeth, assisting with oral biopsies as part of the diagnosis process and assistance in sedation sessions. 

·         The dental nurse will be expected to maintain a high standard of aseptic technique during all surgeries, additional training will be provided to enhance these skills within the clinical area. 

·         To be responsible for the efficient cleaning and sterilising of work surfaces and equipment.  

·         To be responsible for ensuring that surgery equipment is maintained, in good working order and used in the appropriate manner. 

·         To provide basic Oral Health Education to the patient and participate in other relevant Oral Health Promotion activities.·  To assist the orthodontic Doctors in mixing of material necessary for Impressions.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.