Dental Nursing Apprenticeship
NORTHERN SMILE LIMITED
Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE3 2QF)
Closes in 18 days (Monday 21 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 2 July 2025
Contents
Summary
The Kingston Park Dental Practice is seeking a hardworking Level 3 Dental Nurse to join their team. As an apprentice dental nurse, you will help out around the surgery, cleaning instruments and customer care alongside some admin duties. You will be supporting patients, maintaining patient records & preparing equipment for dental surgery.
- Wage
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£14,133.60 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Dental nurse (integrated) (level 3)
- Hours
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Working days to be confirmed - hours between 08.45 - 17.45, one late evening per week, which will be 08.45 - 20.15. 1 hour lunch break every day (Shifts include Saturday morning).
35 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 28 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
- Provide and support dentist with surgery
- Preparation of instruments
- Supporting patients
- Maintaining records
- Keeping all clinical areas sterile
- Liaising with reception
- Awareness of emergency drugs
- Adhering to H&S
Where you'll work
1 Stuart Court
Kingston Park
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE3 2QF
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
MIDDLESBROUGH COLLEGE
Your training course
Dental nurse (integrated) (level 3)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Adhere to legal and ethical responsibilities in line with General Dental Council requirements
- Take responsibility for the integrity of own actions and completed work, recognising the limits of your competence and experience
- Comply with current best practice guidelines
- Put patients’ interests first and act to protect them by working in a patient-centred way
- Effectively manage own time and resources
- Provide chair side support during dental procedures
- Monitor, support and reassure patients throughout all aspects of their treatment, ensuring patient-centred care
- Communicate appropriately, effectively and sensitively at all times and through all media
- Respect patients’ dignity and choices and act without discrimination
- Check that valid consent is obtained for all treatments and personal care delivery
- Maintain patient confidentiality at all times
- Work in the clinical environment in a safe and efficient manner
- Select and prepare the correct equipment, instruments and materials
- Carry out and record maintenance and testing of equipment in line with local policy, procedures and the scope of your own role
- Manage and perform effective decontamination and infection control procedures complying with legislative, local and current best practice guidelines
- Mix, handle, store and dispose of materials in line with manufacturers recommendations
- Create and update accurate and current patient records, including social, medical and dental history, storing and archiving them securely and in line with legislation
- Carry out processing of radiographs in line with local procedures and rules
- Make effective decisions regarding the safety of patients when taking a radiograph
- Deliver appropriate and current evidence-based oral and general health advice
- Recognise and support action to deal with medical emergencies
- Respond to medical emergencies and be competent in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Take part in appraisal and ongoing review processes
- Take part in continuous professional development activities
- Reflect on how your daily practice complies with the General Dental Council requirements for continual improvement
- Comply with personal development planning as specified by the General Dental Council
- Participate in quality improvement activities as required
- Be collaborative and work as part of the team
- Adhere to legal and ethical responsibilities in line with General Dental Council requirements
- Take responsibility for the integrity of own actions and completed work, recognising the limits of your competence and experience
- Comply with current best practice guidelines
- Put patients’ interests first and act to protect them by working in a patient-centred way
- Effectively manage own time and resources
- Provide chair side support during dental procedures
- Monitor, support and reassure patients throughout all aspects of their treatment, ensuring patient-centred care
- Communicate appropriately, effectively and sensitively at all times and through all media
- Respect patients’ dignity and choices and act without discrimination
- Check that valid consent is obtained for all treatments and personal care delivery
- Maintain patient confidentiality at all times
- Work in the clinical environment in a safe and efficient manner
- Select and prepare the correct equipment, instruments and materials
- Carry out and record maintenance and testing of equipment in line with local policy, procedures and the scope of your own role
- Manage and perform effective decontamination and infection control procedures complying with legislative, local and current best practice guidelines
- Mix, handle, store and dispose of materials in line with manufacturers recommendations
- Create and update accurate and current patient records, including social, medical and dental history, storing and archiving them securely and in line with legislation
- Carry out processing of radiographs in line with local procedures and rules
- Make effective decisions regarding the safety of patients when taking a radiograph
- Deliver appropriate and current evidence-based oral and general health advice
- Recognise and support action to deal with medical emergencies
- Respond to medical emergencies and be competent in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- Take part in appraisal and ongoing review processes
- Take part in continuous professional development activities
- Reflect on how your daily practice complies with the General Dental Council requirements for continual improvement
- Comply with personal development planning as specified by the General Dental Council
- Participate in quality improvement activities as required
- Be collaborative and work as part of the team
Your training plan
- Blended on/off the job training and location to be confirmed
- Level 3 Dental Nursing qualification approved by the General Dental Council as meeting the requirements for entry to the professional register as a dental nurse
- Day release at Newcastle Training Office
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE or equivalent in:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Administrative skills
- Analytical skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
About this company
Kingston Park Dental Practice are an independently owned practice. Maintaining healthy, functional teeth is the underlying focus of the treatments our team provide.
After this apprenticeship
- Employment is dependent on positions available
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
MIDDLESBROUGH COLLEGE
Karen Vincent
karen.vincent@northernskills.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000329459.
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Closes in 18 days (Monday 21 July 2025 at 11:59pm)
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