Job summary
Employer heading
Registered Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
This post covers both the maxillofacial and orthodontic services within the unit.
The post holder will need to be flexible in their role, ranging from chaperoning clinics, assisting scrubbing and recovering all minor surgical procedures relating to the head and neck and procedures related to orthodontics.
Wound care and dressings are also an integral part of this role.
You will also be required to pre op assess patients for their theatre experience.
Working with children and nursing patients with learning difficulties are also part of the staff nurses role.
If you want a varied interesting role within the maxillofacial and orthodontic sphere we are looking to invest in you.
Main duties of the job
We are an expanding, forward thinking Maxillo Facial/Orthodontic Outpatients Department, who are looking for a motivated and innovative band 5 registered nurse to join our team.
The applicant should be able to work well in the multidisciplinary team, keen to learn and embrace a varied work pattern, ranging from clinic based activities to minor surgery and caring for patients following sedation/local anaesthetics.
Experience in paediatric and learning disability nursing would be desirable, but not essential. Knowledge and experience of maxillofacial/orthodontic care would also be advantageous.
If this is you then please come and visit us and look to adding your skills to our growing team whilst learning all the department has to offer. This is an exciting time within the department and we require a committed team to take this service forward.
Working for our organisation
Kettering General as a trust offers:
- Great learning and development opportunities to enable all staff to fulfil their potential
- Salary sacrifice schemes
- NHS agenda for change terms and conditions
- A generous annual leave provision
- NHS pension
- Flexible working
Whilst Kettering itself has great access to all the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside. It has excellent road and rail network links to and from London, the East Midlands and Birmingham and the hospital is just off the A14 giving easy access to the M1.
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values:
Compassion
Respect
Integrity
Courageous
Accountable
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will need to be flexible in their role, ranging from chaperoning clinics, assisting scrubbing and recovering all minor surgical procedures relating to the head and neck and procedures related to orthodontics.
Wound care and dressings are also an integral part of this role.
You will also be required to pre op assess patients for their theatre experience.
Working with children and nursing patients with learning difficulties are also part of the staff nurses role.
If you want a varied interesting role within the maxillofacial and orthodontic sphere we are looking to invest in you.
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the Shortlisting Criteria section of the document.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Adult Registered
Desirable criteria
- Mentor Qualification
- Dual Qualification Adult / Paediatric / Learning Difficulties
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous Healthcare experience
Desirable criteria
- Previous Healthcare experience within the maxillofacial/orthodontic sphere
- Previous Healthcare experience within the oral surgery sphere
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nikki Dalziel / Chantelle Burley
- Job title
- Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01536 492360
- Additional information
Nikki Dalziel, Sister for Maxillo Facial Outpatients at [email protected]
Chantelle Burley Deputy Sister 01536 492360
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