Dental Practice Manager / Nurse - Cumbria Health

The successful candidate will play a key role in developing the UDAC to reach its potential, ensuring the executive team are kept updated with current affairs, potential workstream opportunities and financial threats.

Working closely with the clinical director, the post holder will take responsibility for all business aspects of the practice and must have the ability to provide strategic guidance and planning. As a Practice Manager, the successful candidate must keep abreast of contractual and compliance changes and update the executive promptly to allow them to make informed decisions and implement improvements and legislative change where necessary.

You will be required to demonstrate robust leadership qualities, achieving practice targets through a combination of personal involvement and delegation to appropriate members of the team.

This is a varied and complex role and requires the successful candidate to be adaptable and calm in stressful situations. The Practice manager will need to provide guidance and solutions to unexpected challenges and resolve building, staff, and patient problems as they arise. Time management and adaptability are key to the role.

Candidates are expected to be a fully qualified dental nurse, have previous experience in a leadership or management role.

Cumbria Health places the patient, their family and their community at the heart of everything we do. We are an award-winning organisation, the first out-of-hours organisation in the country to be rated as outstanding by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

We provide primary health care services, both in and out of hours, across Cumbria. We are values-driven and place great emphasis on inclusivity and the wellbeing and development of our staff, while striving to provide a consistently high-quality service. Our service is designed to improve health and wellbeing.

Working for Cumbria Health can offer flexible opportunities in terms of location, hours and working patterns so you can enjoy a great work life balance. In order to provide the best patient care we understand the importance of ensuring staff satisfaction and are consistently trying to ensure we offer our staff a positive working environment whether that be though training or social events.

Listen to your heart. Have the work life balance you'd love.

The contracted posts are initially for a two-year contract and remunerated on an hourly rate of £14.53 to £17.69 depending on experience.

Cumbria Health are a leading provider of primary care services across North Cumbria supporting both daytime general practice and Out of Hours alongside several other services and are seeking to commence the new dental service from beginning September 2024.

These exciting part time dental associate posts are located directly off junction 42 of the M6 Carlisle andlocated in the newly established dental facility at Cumbria Health Headquarters, Cumbria Health Limited 4 Wavell Drive Rosehill Industrial Estate Carlisle CA1 2SE.

The practice focus is urgent dental care provision and dental stabilisation. The service will be wholly NHS.

Each of the two newly equipped surgery has digital radiography and the practice digital DPT. The new team will have practice manager working alongside a clinical director, dentists, nurse and therapists nurses working to deliver high quality care to the people of Carlisle and wider North Cumbria communities