The Sedation Dental Nurse will provide specialized care to patients with complex needs and activities to ensure that the best possible care and practice is delivered to patients in challenging environments within the framework of the Dental Salaried Service, by providing both inhalation and IV sedation and supporting the whole dental team.
* The Sedation Dental Nurse will have responsibility for coordinating, planning and executing the IS & IV Sedation Service and supporting the Management Team.
* The Sedation Dental Nurse will be responsible for managing sedation referrals, waiting lists and the utilization of clinical sedation sessions, and collating service data.
* The post holder will provide support to the Band 7 & 8a Manager's for the sedation service by providing an input into complaint responses/incident management/development of SOP's/contributing to Health Board and external meetings.
* The post holder will be part of the dental Out of Hours management rota, being the first point of contact [by telephone] for the OOH dental team should there be any service issues experienced on site, the management of staff sickness calls and the re-arranging/re-allocating of OOH clinics.
Liaise with Management to ensure all operational information such as staffing information is available to carry out planned sedation clinical sessions.
Manage sedation referrals, waiting lists and preparation of booking patient appointments to ensure the maximum utilization of clinics.
Record and process data for the sedation service, compiling accurate reports and reporting the information in meetings to Management.
Operate as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support patients through clinical pathways.
Manage own workload and any clinic changes in conjunction with clinical staff.
Prepare and equip the clinical environment to ensure clinical standards and service requirements are met.
Identify the patient's dental nursing requirements during treatment and provide high quality care to meet the required need, ensuring the safe and precise delivery of care at all times.
Provide appropriate pre and postoperative information to patients, ensuring that patients understand and comply with the information. This includes information for patients undertaking Conscious Sedation procedures.
Liaise with Clinicians and Pharmacy for ordering the controlled drug Midazolam for use in IV sedation for patient treatment.
Monitor, evaluate and report on the clinical condition of the conscious sedation patient before, during and following the procedure.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
We listen, learn and improve
We treat everyone with respect
We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see 'Welsh Language Guidance' in the documents right at the bottom.