Dental Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 14/08/2026
- Closes
- 30/08/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a Dental Nurse to join the Mobile Dental Unit team at Powys Teaching Health Board. The role involves providing comprehensive, high-quality dental care to a wide range of patients across Powys, including community clinics, mobile units, schools, and nursing homes. The successful applicant will work autonomously and as part of a dental team, preparing and monitoring patients during treatment and maintaining a high standard of care. The base location will be in the Llandrindod Wells/Mid and North Powys area.
Essential criteria
- National certificate for DN's or equivalent
- Registered with GDC
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Post basic certificate in any of the following Sedation, SC, Radiography, Oral Health, Orthodontics
- Knowledge of the role of the CDS
- Experience of being competent in Dental Administration, prioritising tasks and managing deadlines
- Keyboard skills, outlook, word, Excel
- Experience of working with the public, special care pts and the elderly
- Experience of working in an environment where tact, diplomacy and confidentiality required
- Aptitude and abilities
- Ability to work and relate to children and special needs
- Ability to use initiative in emergency situations
- Ability to develop good working relationships
- Ability to prioritise and organise clinc/surgery
- Self motivated and able to motivate patients
- Team player
- Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn.
- Self management and planning skills
- Experience of commitment to QA and Audit
- Values
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with people from a variety of backgrounds
- Support and demonstarte PTHB values
- Able to work autonomously
- Other
- Ability to travel in a timely manner to other locations
- Qualification / Knowledge
- National certificate for DN's or equivalent
- Registered with GDC
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Post basic certificate in any of the following Sedation, SC, Radiography, Oral Health, Orthodontics
- Knowledge of the role of the CDS
- Experience of being competent in Dental Administration, prioritising tasks and managing deadlines
- Keyboard skills, outlook, word, Excel
- Experience of working with the public, special care pts and the elderly
- Experience of working in an environment where tact, diplomacy and confidentiality required
- Aptitude and abilities
- Ability to work and relate to children and special needs
- Ability to use initiative in emergency situations
- Ability to develop good working relationships
- Ability to prioritise and organise clinc/surgery
- Self motivated and able to motivate patients
- Team player
- Some ability to speak, read and/or write Welsh, or an eagerness to learn.
- Self management and planning skills
- Experience of commitment to QA and Audit
- Values
- Good written and verbal communication skills, with people from a variety of backgrounds
- Support and demonstarte PTHB values
- Able to work autonomously
- Other
- Ability to travel in a timely manner to other locations
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 4 at £26,530 – £29,114 a year, across England.
This advert: £28,819 – £31,626 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Powys Teaching Health Board
Dental Nurse
The closing date is 30 August 2026
Job summary
There is an exciting new opportunity for a Dental Nurse to work with the Mobile Dental Unit team. The post is Band 4, Full time, 37.5 hours per week. The postholder will be expected to provide a comprehensive, high-quality care to a wide spectrum of patients across Powys within the Community Dental Service clinics, including mobile dental clinics and/or external sites such as Schools and Nursing homes as required. Dental Nurses will be provided with a base clinic/department when appointed and will be expected to work flexibly across different sites where dental treatment is provided. The base location is to be confirmed but will be situated in the Llandrindod Wells/Mid and North Powys area.
The postholder will be expected to establish strong links and effective working relations with the whole Dental team as well as patient, parents, guardians, education providers, day centres for Adults/Children with special needs, social services, other Dental services, GDP's, Hospitals, Medical practitioners and Dental material suppliers.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will be expected to work as part of the Dental team, preparing and monitoring patients for and during their treatment, providing pre and post-operative instructions.
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