Registered Dental Nurse

Go back Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust Registered Dental Nurse

The closing date is 18 December 2025

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Main duties of the job

Position type :Full time, 37.5 hours per week. Permanent

Band 4 : Salary £27,485 - £30,162 per annum

We are looking for a Registered Band 4 Dental Nurse to join us part time in our busy Maxillofacial Department. Assisting our Consultants and clinicians working across all specialities, which include Oral Surgery, Maxillofacial, Restorative and Orthodontics, on a rotational basis. Ideally the candidate would need to be an excellent team member and communicator, self motivated and caring.

Please list any additional post grad certificates and/or qualifications.

About us

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and Disability, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veterans status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.

Job responsibilities

• Tomaintain high standards of patient care and adhere to hospital policy andprocedures. To participate in achievement of quantity standards and in qualitymonitoring, with particular emphasis on waiting times in clinics and oncustomer care in addition to high standards of clinical care.
• Toprepare surgeries, including preparation of instruments and equipment for allDental/Surgical procedures.
• Toliaise with and assist clinical, medical and dental staff in all procedures.
• Toattend peripheral clinics, providing nursing and radiography support whenappropriate.
• Toprovide oral health education to patients on treatment, oral hygiene, dietaryneeds and other health promotion areas as relevant and to provide information,advice and support regarding their treatment.
• Toensure medical equipment and instruments are checked, maintained and suitablefor their purposes, reporting any defect to the nurse manager and assisting inarrangement for repair and replacement.
• Tomake patient appointments when appropriate, inputting data into hospital anddepartmental information system, and obtaining necessary information from suchsystems.
• Toreport any complaints to the Clinical Nurse Manager, participating incomplaints investigation and completing report forms as necessary.
• Toassist in stock control, maintenance of adequate stock levels. Conduct stocktakes when required.
• Toparticipate in departmental Audits and collate information when required.
• Toassist in the training of new Dental Nurses and act as a mentor when required.
• Toattend departmental meetings and training sessions.
• Touse all relevant qualifications gained such as, tracing cephalometricradiographs, taking dental photos, assist in dental implants and the taking ofdental radiographs.
• Toparticipate in individual performance reviews.
• Toadhere to all health and safety policies and be aware of all policies andprocedures within the department/trust.
• Toundertake any other appropriate duties as maybe assigned by clinical nursemanager and/or Clinical Director.

Please refer to the Job description for further details:

Person Specification Qualifications

• Registered Dental Nurse with GDC
• Must have experience in all clinical aspects of Dental Nursing.
• Experience in Oral Surgery, advanced restorative dentistry and orthodontics.

Experience

• Hospital experience or previous experience of cancer patients is preferred but not essential.

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.

Employer name

Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust