Senior Dental Nurse


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	from £15.23 an hour
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Morecambe, LA4 5NN
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	5 Oct 2026
Closing date:	11 Oct 2026

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Summary

Key Duties and Responsibilities: Provide visible leadership and day-to-day operational support to the Morecambe dental service, promoting a positive, professional and patient-focused culture. Work collaboratively with the Clinical Lead and wider dental leadership team to ensure the safe and efficient delivery of services. Lead on recruitment, induction, training, supervision and development of staff, including conducting appraisals, one-to-one meetings and performance support conversations where required. Promoting teamwork, engagement, wellbeing and professional standards. Managing safeguarding concerns in line with organisational policies, ensuring appropriate escalation and documentation where required. To work closely with the safeguarding lead and external stakeholders. Support patients in accessing appropriate services where required. Lead and support infection prevention and control processes, ensuring compliance with HTM 01-05, CQC regulations and local governance requirements. Support quality assurance activities including audits, action plans, local policy reviews and service improvement. Contribute to clinical governance, incident reporting, investigations and organisational learning, promoting a culture of openness, safety and continuous improvement. Develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal teams, local dental practices, referral services, Internal and external stakeholders to support patient pathways and service delivery. Facilitate regular team meetings, communications and engagement activities to ensure staff remain informed, supported and involved in service developments. Maintain compliance with all mandatory training, professional registration requirements and organisational policies. Undertake any other reasonable duties consistent with the responsibilities and objectives of the post Our key expectations are: Self-awareness Living authentically Adaptability- Being ready to adjust depending on the situation Openness What you see is what you get Positivity with a real sense of being able to strive for the impossible Generosity of spirit- Everyday should be an opportunity to act with kindness Ability to have fun Taking the role seriously, whilst being yourself Our Why: To nurture an environment of inspiration, innovation and disruption so this people in our world receive exceptional healthcare for this generation, and the next. Values:Our organisational culture is very important to us, so it is vital that the successful candidate lives and breathescomplimentary values and behaviours. Our behaviours should be in line with our values which form part of our Company DNA: Fun: People rarely succeed unless they are having fun. Happiness is healthy! Awesome: We arent here to be average, were here to be awesome! Humble: Were here to make a difference to the lives of others, NOT to see how important we can become Brave: We challenge the norm. We have the courage to get the difficult jobs done Oompf: We have natural oompf! Its infectious! Go-getting: We are intuitive to changing needs and respond quickly which we do with energy, ideas, and positivity. Disability Confident Employer As users of the disability confident scheme, we guarantee to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the vacancy DBS - This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exemption 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. This will require three forms of valid ID to be produced and verified. The onboarding process is also subject to an Occupational Health check, suitable professional references and eligibility to work in the UK (with the requirement to provide relevant documentation as evidence). For Driver positions you will also be required to undertake a Driver check. The organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share this commitment. You will be expected to fulfil your mandatory safeguarding training at the level applicable to this role. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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