Clinical Support Officer

The Community Dental service has an exciting opportunity for a clinical support worker. This role is ideal for someone with a passion for working with vulnerable and medically complex patients. As an award winning service we offer high quality dental care to people who are unable to access a ‘high street’ NHS dentist, due to their additional needs. The post holder will use the dental services clinical system to book patients, liaise with other stakeholder such as dental laboratories, interpreters, patient transport etc. as well as provide administrative support to our Consultants, Specialists, Dentists and Dental Therapists.



There will be the opportunity to enhance your skills to enable you to support our clinicians when using our dental clinical system. The Community Dental Service provides mandatory training and supervision, which will support your progression within the service. We provide a varied and competency based induction programme to support you in your development within the service.



We have seven sites across Bradford and Airedale. Travel across the district is a requirement of the role in order to successfully undertake the range of duties specified within the job description. Therefore, it is essential that applicants have the ability to travel across the district as and when required to meet the needs and demands of the service.



To provide and co-ordinate an efficient customer focused reception service to include a range of secretarial, clerical and administrative duties to support the dental clinical team.



Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -



We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference



We Listen - We understand people’s views and respond to their individual needs



We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners



We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :



Increase mileage rates for > 3500



A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages



A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities



Plus many more.



We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.



BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.



The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received .



Please read the attached Job description and person specification for more details about this role.



Closing date: 28th April 2024

Shortlisting: w/c 29th April 2024

Interview date: 15th May 2024