Community Dental Receptionist - Barrow Dental Clinic
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustBarrow, North West
Overview
This is a NHS role (permanent) with North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust based in Barrow. The advertised salary is £25,272. Applications close on 28 October 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
To perform routine dental reception duties within the Community and Special Care Dental Services in the Furness and South Lakes locality for North Cum...
The purpose of the Special Care & Community Dental Services is to provide routine dental care and specialist dental care to patients referred to the service. This includes special care dentistry, conscious sedation, cognitive behaviour therapy ,general dental care under anaesthesia, and out of hours emergency dental access. Such services are supported by a full range of professionals complimentary to dentistry.
Other essential services provided include oral health promotion and prevention programmes and involvement in the national dental epidemiological surveys and screening programmes.
A vacancy has arisen in the Community and Special Care Dental Services within North Cumbria Integrated NHS Foundation Trust for a Band 2 Dental Receptionist/Patient Administrator based at Barrow Dental Centre.
The Community and Special Care Dental Service provides high quality dental care and oral health advice for a diverse group of patients including Paediatric and Special Care Patients who would find it hard to access care elsewhere or require advanced treatment.
The dental service is looking for an enthusiastic operator to assist and compliment the current dental team.
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of South Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across South Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.
Essential: - Secondary level education; - Literacy and Numeracy skills to GCSE level or equivalent
Desirable: - CLAIT certificate or equivalent (should include Word & Excel)
Essential: - Experience using Microsoft packages particularly WORD and Excel.; - Experience in a customer facing role
Desirable: - Patient appointment management system: SOEL Health; - Experience of working with the public; - Knowledge of the Special Care & Community Dental Service Pathway and Criteria; - Knowledge of Local Protocol for accessing Emergency Care via Dental Direct and Triage system
Essential: - General office duties; - IT skills; - Organisational skills; - Good telephone communication skills; - Excellent person-to-person communication skills and able to use these to communicate effectively with people with compromised physical or mental capacity.; - Empathetic and professional
Desirable: - Knowledge of local Dental and NHS services; - Customer Care Service training.; - Ability to record meeting minutes.
Essential: - Flexible and able to adapt to change Ability to travel to other Dental sites in Cumbria; - Ability to travel to other Dental sites in Cumbria.
Essential: - Professional; - Courteous; - Team Player
How this role compares
We hold 1,145 NHS vacancies in North West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £32,073. This role pays less than about 97% of them.
There are 12,688 NHS roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 1,530 of them in North West.
You have 7 days left to apply. NHS adverts we hold typically run for around 54 days, so this is a shorter window than usual.
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust has 70 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
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