Apprentice Dental Nurse - Derby

About the role

✨ Dental Nurse Role ✨

Ready to level up your career and make a real difference? We're on the hunt for a super-efficient and dependable Dental Nurse to join our awesome team! 🚀 You'll be the backbone of our clinical operations, ensuring top-notch patient care is always the priority, all while keeping things confidential and GDPR-savvy. 💯

Your day-to-day mission:

• Be the first friendly face patients see, making them feel welcome and helping with appointment bookings. 👋📅
• Handle patient questions like a pro – polite, accurate, and always on point. 🗣️✅
• Get our surgeries prepped and sparkling clean! That means sterilizing instruments 🧼, keeping infection control tight (CQC standards, of course!), and making sure everything is ready to go. 🦷✨
• Be the clinician's right-hand person during treatments, and keep patient records updated accurately. 📝
• Focus on making our patients feel comfortable, reassured, and have the best dental experience ever! 😊🌟
• Keep our stock and equipment in check, and ensure surgeries are always good to go. 📦🧰
• Maintain a super clean, safe, and fully kitted-out clinical environment. 🏠
• Uphold patient privacy, dignity, and confidentiality with the utmost respect. 🤫❤️
• Team up with dentists and the whole crew to deliver safe, slick, and high-quality care. 🤝🏥

Key responsibilities

• Provide efficient and reliable chairside support to clinicians, ensuring high standards of patient care and confidentiality.
• Prepare surgeries, sterilise instruments, and maintain infection control to CQC standards.
• Welcome patients, assist with appointment scheduling, handle basic enquiries, and accurately update patient records.
• Maintain clean, safe, and fully equipped clinical areas, including monitoring and managing stock and equipment.
• Collaborate effectively with dentists and the wider dental team.