Join our Dental Nurse Apprenticeship in Liverpool and gain the skills, knowledge, and qualifications you need for a successful career in dental nursing. With ongoing support and hands-on training, you'll be ready to make a real difference in patient care.What You’ll Be Doing:
Assisting dentists with treatments, from routine check-ups to specialist procedures
Providing patients with high-quality care and support
Setting up and cleaning surgeries, sterilising instruments, and preparing materials for treatments
Updating patient records and maintaining essential equipment
Following practice policies and procedures to ensure a safe, efficient environment
How It Works:
Practical Training: Learn on the job with the support of your dental practice, mastering the skills required for daily responsibilities
Theoretical Training: Study the science and principles of dental nursing through online learning, guided by Skills4Dental Training
Off-the-Job Learning: Complete dedicated training during paid working hours to enhance your skills
This apprenticeship is your pathway to a rewarding career in healthcare, offering hands-on experience, paid learning, and nationally recognised qualifications. Start building your future in dental nursing today!
The apprenticeship will be paying National Minimum Wage for your age group.Training:Dental Nurse (Integrated) Level 3.Training Outcome:Advancing Within Dental Nursing:
Lead Dental Nurse: Take on more responsibilities by managing other dental nurses and overseeing practice operations
Practice Manager: Move into a management role, handling the day-to-day running of the dental practice
Specialisation Opportunities:
Orthodontic Nursing: Assist in orthodontic treatments, gaining expertise in braces and aligners
Dental Radiography: Train to take X-rays, an essential skill in modern dental practices
Oral Health Promotion: Work with patients and communities to educate on oral hygiene and preventative care
Moving Into Clinical Roles:
Dental Hygienist or Therapist: With further qualifications, progress into roles focused on providing oral hygiene treatments or minor dental procedures
Extended Duties Dental Nurse: Gain additional skills such as fluoride application, impression taking, or assisting in sedation procedures
Transition to Education or Research:
Trainer or Assessor: Use your experience to teach and assess trainee dental nurses
Dental Researcher: Contribute to advancements in dentistry by working in research roles
Related Healthcare Careers:
Specialist Healthcare Settings: Work in maxillofacial units, hospitals, or with oral surgeons
Broader Healthcare Roles: Transition into other areas of healthcare, leveraging transferable skills
Employer Description:Our reputation is built on our commitment to prompt professional, personal service and attention to detail, which is reflected in the services we offer and the time we take to get to know our clientele and how to best service their needs.Working Hours :Monday to Friday 9am - 5.30pmSkills: Attention to detail,Communication skills,Customer care skills,Initiative,Non judgemental,Organisation skills,Patience,Team working....Read more...
Role: Project and Training Assistant
Location: Blandford Forum
Salary: £ (DOE)
Holt Recruitment are working with a legal firm in Blandford Forum to recruit a Project and Training Assistant on a full time, permanent, on-site basis. You will be working for a firm that has been established for over 100 years and pride in everything they do. This firm great to work for and can offer you career development and flexibility with a warm and welcoming team.
What is in it for you?
- Firmwide bonus scheme
- Discretionary bonus scheme
- Healthcare benefits, including an employee assistance programme
- Pension provision 3% employer, 5% employee
- Salary sacrifice pension
- Enhanced maternity and paternity provisions
- Sabbatical scheme
- Life cover 3x salary
- 25 days holiday entitlement in addition to bank/public holidays with further days for long service
- Professional development support
- Time off for volunteering activities
- Staff discount
- Social activities
- Free car parking
What is expected?
As the Project and Training Assistant, you will be responsible for:
- Providing administrative support for the project and training work of the operations and management team.
- To assist with design, management and implementation of projects for all areas and departments of the firm.
- Deliver training on the projects to departments, including the IT trainer and developer.
- Design trining material.
- Use excel spreadsheets for Graphs, formulas etc.
What do you need as a Project and Training Assistant?
- GCSEs or an equivalent.
- Good IT skills.
- Good communication skills.
- Excellent excel skills.
- Experience in project management is desirable.
- Legal background is desirable.
What is the next step?
If you believe this is the right role for you, click 'Apply' or call us, and one of our team members will be happy to discuss this Project and Training Assistant role in Blandford Forum.
Job ID Number: 83741
Division: Commercial Division
Job Role: Project and Training Assistant
Location: Blandford Forum
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This is a fantastic and unique opportunity to embark on a journey towards a great career.
Starting as an Optical Assistant apprentice with future opportunities for career progression, you will be supported with loads of great, fun, and interactive training. You will use these exciting new skills in your day-to-day job, where you will gain customer service skills, knowledge in optical support, and develop behaviour suitable for working in an optical practice.
Those with a flair for fashion will love the new frames coming in, and if it's your forte, you may even get involved in meeting frame reps and helping choose the new ranges. If you are more technical, you will get to learn lots of information about lenses and measurements, then transform that information into jargon-free, easy-to-understand, customer-friendly language.
It's all about teamwork in an optician's practice. There are many roles, but you support each other to ensure your customers get the best experience possible. Optical assistants are a very important part of any optical practice and crucial to the customer journey. Individuals with a real passion for both healthcare and retail thrive in this role, as it's perfect for those who love to make a real difference in other people's lives.
The duties within this role include:
Greeting customers in a professional and friendly manner as they enter the practice
Interpreting and understanding a clinically issued prescription, its effects on the eye, and the customer's vision
Helping customer's select spectacle frame(s) that are suitable in terms of comfort, looks good and fits lifestyle requirements
Be able to explain the features and benefits of particular frames, using non-technical customer friendly language
Measuring the frames and ensure they are a suitable size for a customer and can accommodate their lenses
Adjusting customers spectacle frames using the correct tools to ensure stability and comfort
Basic frame repairs
Have a good knowledge of Ophthalmic lenses, tints and coatings to be able to meet visual / lifestyle requirements
Ordering prescription glasses and contact lenses in for the customer
Correct completion of NHS paperwork and written records in-line with company procedures
Making follow up appointments for customers
Use a focimeter to find the prescription from spectacles
Communicate contact lenses suitability, features and benefits
Carrying out pre-screening tests such as retinal imaging and pressure and visual field testing
Explaining offers and products to customers
Taking payments from customers
Being able to problem solve with basic optical concerns
Understanding business KPI's and how they affect the practices profitability
Training:
Level 3 Optical Assistant Qualification
Functional skills in English, maths (if not already achieved)
Training Outcome:The successful candidate will work towards achieving a Level 3 qualification in optical and gain experience in a busy optical practice.
Upon completion of the Level 3 qualification, you will be an experienced and qualified optical assistant, and as such, you can continue building up skills that will always be in demand. Career breaks and part time working are often possible.
You could go on to acquire higher level optical qualifications such as:
Ophthalmic Dispensing- Become a qualified Dispensing Optician
Contact lens Optician - fit Contact lenses
Low vision specialist - help people where traditional spectacles will not suffice. Supply low vision aids, magnifiers, advice on improving contrast and on other non-Optical aids such as bump-ons
Optometry courses - carry out full eye examinations and issue prescriptions
Clinical representative- visiting practices introducing new frame ranges and Ophthalmic lenses
In-practice trainer - You could use your knowledge to train others
Other non-clinical roles:
Practice Management - you could complete a management course
Practice ownership - you could go into business yourself, partnership or franchise
Employer Description:Opticians based in Wells, Somerset.Working Hours :Working Hours:
Monday - Friday - 09:00 - 17:30,
Saturday - 09:00 - 17:00Skills: Communication skills,Attention to detail,Organisation skills,Customer care skills,Team working,Initiative....Read more...
