Dental Nurse Specialist - Sedation Lead (Cov & Wark) - Leamington Base

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust opened in 1948 and provides a range of elective, non-elective, surgical, medical, women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic services to a population of more than 350,000 people.

The hub of the Trust is located on the outskirts of Nuneaton and its services cover a large footprint, including north Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and north Coventry. We also provide primary and community services across Coventry, Warwickshire and Leicestershire.

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Job overview

Dental Nurse Specialist - Sedation Lead (Cov & Wark) - Leamington Base

37.5 hours per week (Part time available)

Permanent

Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata

Closing Date: Sunday 4th October 2026

Interview Date: Wednesday 21st October 2026

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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• To ensure the efficient smooth running of all Sedation/GA lists and pre-assessment clinical sessions for Coventry & Warwickshire Community Dental Service.
• To be the primary lead and responsible nurse at all GA / Sedation sites across the county, ensuring on a rotational basis, appropriate coverage, continuity and best practice standards at all times.
• To support Clinicians in the specialist Dental Service to provide high quality dental care for a wide range of patients with complex specialist needs, including medically compromised conditions, tolerance and access difficulties.
• To be adaptable and perform all duties at all sites, and to work flexible times as patients’ needs require.

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• Responsible for the safe and effective operation of the Sedation and General Anaesthesia clinical sessions and associated nursing team.
• Prioritising of daily and weekly workload ensuring correction and completion of tasks to ensure effective clinical care.
• To develop and monitor an order system to ensure all materials, sundries and instruments required are available for all Sedation sites.
• To set-up a robust system to monitor stock levels and expiry dates of medicaments.
• To develop and implement best practice in all sedation sites to ensure the smooth and efficient running of sedation sessions.
• To work in partnership with the Booking and Access Team to collate all paperwork, x-rays, and blood test results as required for the individual’s sedation appointment.
• To develop and maintain a system for each site to ensure that Special Care Dental Service instruments are made sterile and returned correctly following a sedation session and to liaise with HSDU department, if any inadequacies are identified in provision of service.
• To work Coventry & Warwickshire-wide across at all sedation sites on a rotational basis.
• To provide clinical assistance for a Clinician in the performance of their clinical duties which cover a range of procedures from full mouth dental examinations to minor oral surgery, in a clinical setting.

Working for our organisation

Here at George Eliot our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:

Effective Open Communication

excellence and safety in everything we do

Challenge but support

Expect respect and dignity

Local health that inspires confidence

Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.

If you are applying for a Domestic Assistant or Health Care Assistant role you may be eligible for the refer a friend scheme – find out more here: https://www.geh.nhs.uk/about-us/people-and-workforce/vacancies/refer-friend-scheme

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Ability to receive and deal with complex and sensitive information from parents/carers and other clinical resources in relation to patients who have special needs, are medically compromised or have a communication barrier.
• Dealing with patients with special care requirements, disabilities and nervous/phobic conditions.
• To understand and maintain principles of confidentiality
• To communicate sensitive information to staff and patients requiring a high level of persuasive and reassurance skills.
• To liaise with the Booking and Access Team to arrange dates of lists, hospital staffing required, medical records to be made available and information to be sent to patients or parents/guardians.
• To liaise with anaesthetists, recovery staff, ODP’s and ward staff as appropriate under the direction of the senior dentists.
• To liaise with other health care professionals, wherever a joint anaesthetic procedure may be undertaken.
• To liaise with Learning Disability Teams, MAPA, social workers, GP’s.
• To work closely with Dental Nurse Leads to organise Dental nurse teams to be made available for each SCDS GA hospital and sedation session and to rotate Dental nurse teams for all involved to maintain skills and confidence with each site
• To support dental nurses available to cover Sedation and GA.
• Providing pre and post-operative instruction as directed by the Clinician.
• Provide oral health promotion advice, specialised pre and post-operative treatment instructions.
• To be the primary lead for all Sedation and GA theatre sessions, directing, guiding and leading nurses to ensure continuity and best practice.
• To co-ordinate and direct all Sedation/GA pre-assessment clinics, liaising with the Booking and Access Team through to providing dental nurse support to the clinician.
• To deputise for and support the Specialist Nurse GA Lead.
• To provide chairside surgery assistance, as appropriate of the qualification of a Dental Nurse, for Clinicians in the performance of their range of duties for patients with complex special needs.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Please note:

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust utilises a third party recruitment system (TRAC). When applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into TRAC where all subsequent information regarding your application will be generated. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages via the NHS Jobs website. Furthermore, as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any emails/messages sent to us via the NHS Jobs website.

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Other:

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is a mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to complete a Disclosure and Barring Service application.

In response to NICE guidance and to support the reduction of health harm from tobacco, the Trust has a smoke-free site policy which applies to anyone on Trust sites. Staff who smoke will be supported to quit or not smoke whilst on Trust sites.

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees as they are at the heart of our patients journey. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued, respected, empowered and included within an organisation that is representative of all members of the community. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – taking pride in that we value employees, job applicants, students, volunteers, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our excel behaviours with a vision to create a workplace that represents a culture of kindness, joy and inclusion.