The closing date is 16 October 2026
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year per annum
Job summary
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 to General anaesthetic.
Experience in paediatric andlearning 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.
Main duties of the job
- Registered Nurse with an interest in Maxillofacial and Orthodontic services
- Flexible and adaptable approach to working across clinics, minor procedures and patient pathways
- Ability to support minor surgical procedures, including chaperoning, scrubbing and recovery duties
- Knowledge of wound care, dressings and pre-operative patient assessment
- Confident caring for a diverse patient group, including children and patients with learning disabilities
- Excellent communication, interpersonal and organisational skills
- Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team and deliver high-quality patient-centred care
- Commitment to developing specialist knowledge and skills within Maxillofacial and Orthodontic nursing
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- NMC Registered Nurse
Desirable
- Mentor Qualification
- Dual Qualification Adult / Paediatric / Learning Difficulties
- Leadership Qualification
- Diploma/Degree
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Previous Healthcare experience
- Commitment to continuing professional development; with an enthusiasm for learning
Desirable
- Previous Healthcare experience within the maxillofacial/oral surgery/orthodontic sphere
- Previous experience/knowledge of working with children/ individuals with learning disabilities
- Evidence of post-registration qualification/education to diploma/degree level
- Previous experience or understanding of surgical/theatre/pre op nursing
- Has a working knowledge of an outpatients department
- Awareness and understanding of current issues within nursing, midwifery and the wider NHS
- Commitment to continuing professional development; with an enthusiasm for learning
- Has had experience in a theatre/minor surgery setting
- Previous experience/knowledge of working in / with paediatric patients
- Have a good underpinning knowledge of acute/chronic patient/surgical wound care
Skills
Essential
- The ability to communicate with patients and their families/carers during a highly stressful time, requiring the ability to alter communication strategies dependent on the situation and the patient’s status
- Has a very approachable character, able to build quick rapport with patients in a limited time
- To demonstrate accuracy and clarity in verbal, written and electronic communication; and appropriate information storage
- Able to allocate and delegate workload responsibly and monitor the work of others; clinical supervision of junior staff
- The ability to make judgments on problems requiring investigation, analysis e.g., assessment of patient condition, suitability for discharge
- The ability to make changes to own practice and offer suggestions for improving services
- Demonstrates personal duty of care in relation to the safe use of equipment and other resources
- Ability to treat all employee and other hospital information confidentially
- Recognition of factors in maintaining own and others health, safety and security
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
Essential
- Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
- Supportive of equality and values diversity
- Maintains the quality in own work and encourages others to do the same
- Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate clinical care
- The ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to ensure high quality nursing/midwifery service
- Able to organise, prioritise and adjust own workload in relation to the priorities of the department
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).