Principle Dental Nurse | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

A wonderful opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Principal Dental Nurse to join our team at Buckinghamshire NHS Trust. You will be responsible for a highly motivated team of Dental Nurses within the department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orthodontics and Restorative Dentistry. You will provide clinical expertise to ensure an effective and efficient service is provided for our patients.

The Principal Dental Nurse is responsible for leading and managing the dental nursing service, ensuring high standards of patient care, safety, and clinical governance. The role involves providing clinical leadership, supporting and developing staff, and overseeing day-to-day operations within the department.

The post holder will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to deliver effective care for patients with orthodontic, restorative, and maxillofacial needs. Key duties include supervising staff performance, managing resources and budgets, maintaining infection control standards, and contributing to service improvement initiatives. The role also requires active involvement in training, audit, and quality assurance processes, while acting as a professional role model.

The post holder will provide leadership to the Dental Nurse team on a daily basis, inspiring them with strong leadership, excellent clinical skills and a visible and exemplary commitment to patient-centred care.

Key duties include acting as a clinical role model by providing hands-on support such as chairside assistance and scrub duties, ensuring safe and effective patient care. The role involves supervising staff, managing rotas, performance, and professional development, as well as handling HR responsibilities including recruitment, appraisals, and disciplinary processes.

They also contribute to service planning, budget management, and quality improvement initiatives.

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Ourvisionis to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Ourmissionis to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Ourcarevalues are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.

This advert closes on Thursday 4 Jun 2026