Job summary
- Main area
- Dental
- Grade
- Band 2
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- Westcotes/Merlyn Vaz
- Employer
- Community Dental Services CIC
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Westcotes Dental Clinic/Merlyn Vaz
- Town
- Leicester
- Salary
- £24,169 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Dental Receptionist and Decontamination Support Worker
Band 2
Job overview
Dental Receptionist and Decontamination Support Worker
Permanent, Full Time
Hours: 37.5 Hours
Bases: Westcotes Dental Clinic, Fosse Road South, Leicester, LE3 0LP
Merlyn Vaz Dental Clinic, Spinney Hill Road, Leicester, LE5 3GH
Salary: £24,169 per annum
Do you want to make a difference? If so, why not consider a career with an award winning dentally led social enterprise?
If your answer is ‘yes’ and you see yourself as a caring, compassionate, flexible and approachable person where you will be appreciated by patients and the team, then this is the place for you.
Main duties of the job
What are we looking for?
The successful candidate will have good communication skills and effortless ways of making people feel at ease and will prove invaluable when providing day to day support. You will be based at Merlyn Vaz and Westcotes Dental Departments, busy multi surgery clinics.
You will be responsible for providing reception and administrative support in our clinics and on occasion to assist in the decontamination and maintenance of dental instruments and equipment.
Most importantly, we would like you to have a welcoming and upbeat approach and be a helping hand in the clinic for both employees and patients.
Our clinical sessions run between Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5.00pm, Saturdays as and when required, and we will need you to be flexible in your approach to work. We will need you to work at other clinics, therefore car drivers are essential.
Working for our organisation
What do we offer?
- Full time, permanent contract, 37.5 hours per week
- Starting salary gross £24,169 per annum
- 27 days holiday plus bank holidays
- Access to Corporate Pension Scheme
- 24/7 access to Employee Assistance Programme
- Funded internal and external mandatory training to enable you to maintain your CPD
- Support with training for your wider professional development.
- Uniforms provided
- Become a shareholder and have a say in how our organisation is run at all levels
- Opportunity to play a key part in local social care initiative
Please ensure that you read the Job Description, which also includes the person specification, before applying.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information on duties and responsibilities.
Person specification
Dental Receptionist and Decontamination Support Worker
Essential criteria
- Please see attached Person Specification within the Job Description
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tracey Osborn
- Job title
- Senior Dental Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07768 036441
- Additional information
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