Lesley Wood

• I currently Line Manage 5 Dental Nurses in North East Lincs and support 5 Dental Nurses in North Lincs as required.
• This role involves ensuring all specialist clinics are fully manned for our Community Dental Departments and Hospital setting, with the appropriately qualified staff to facilitate patients treatment needs.
• This involves complex planning 3 months in advance in accordance with the Trusts E Rostering system,
• Conduct PADR's, Performance reviews, back to work interviews
• Interview prospective new employees
• Ensure all equipment is serviced regularly and there is adequate stock control to facilitate smooth running of the clinics
• Provide Dental Nursing duties for patients with Complex needs including - General Anaesthetics/RA sedation/IV Sedation/Doms anc Clinic patients.
• Infection control link nurse, carrying out regular Audits in Line with Trust Policy
• Lead on COSHH and risk assessments
• Lead on document control and review for the departments controlled documents which involves liaising with Key stakeholders for comments and actions in a timely manner and making said changes for the Trusts Clinical governance department to review.
• Carry out regular audits pertaining to the Trust and GDC professional standards
• Ensure all staff have carried out CPD in accordance to their own discipline, GDC requirements
• Regularly liaise with Multi Disciplinary collogues across the Trust and wider community
• Partake and facilitate staff meetings
• Train and supervise Junior/ New members of the Team
• Written the departments Training and Competency manual for all Dental equipment
• Written the Departments Induction document for new starters

• Provide chair side assistance for the Dental Officers and Therapists for patients with complex needs
• General anaesthetic
• RA Sedation
• IV Sedation
• Clinic Patients
• Domiciliary patients
• Implemented all COSHH assessments and risk assessments and the Ionising Radiation Folder for the whole department
• Led on Clinical Governance and attended monthly meetings reporting to the our Senior Divisional Lead on departmental issues
• Advised on Policy/Service development
• Provided a working Clinical Rota for the Team Manager for staffing
• Conducted regular audits for both internal and external stakeholders
• Provided monthly reports to the Primary Care trust on patient activity/UDA's/DNA's
• Checked monthly reports from The Dental Board checking patient payments were accurate and acting accordingly for discrepancies
• Devised and implemented an excel spreadsheet for budgeting of clinic stock control. This ultimately resulted in our department being under budget for many years running

I Managed a very busy corporate Dental Practice

• Instill corporate Policy and core values and development of the Dental Team
• Ensure smooth running of very busy High Street Practice
• Train and assess Dental Nurses both in our Practice and outlying Dental Practices studying for their NVQ Level 3 in Dental Nursing, involving teaching, providing lesson plans and assessing the Dental Nurses.
• Providing portfolios of Dental nurse assessments for Dee Mac training Services limited
• Facilitate regular CPD and training for whole team
• Engaged with stakeholders to build relationships and brand awareness.
• Trained and supervised junior clerical staff handling diverse office needs.
• Conduct Annual Appraisals
• Performance related issues in accordance with Corporate policy
• Carry out regular staff meetings
• Work out Dental Officer remuneration from reports and send to head office
• Ensured FP17's accurately filled in and sent to DPB and checked monthly reports for inaccuracies
• Drafted timely financial reports as required by principals.
• Interacted with and addressed patients complaints, finding mutually beneficial solutions in accordance with Corporate Policy
• Facilitated smooth practice operations, making arrangements for practice equipment maintenance to minimise malfunctions.
• Coordinated regular staff meetings and performance reviews to meet practice objectives.
• Followed strict safety standards, patient protection requirements, and legal guidelines.
• Resolved issues by recording and investigating complaints and recommending remedial actions.
• Managed procurement of practice equipment, supplies and services, consistently meeting budget targets.
• Coordinated timely billing for appointments and procedures, preparing and distributing statements to patients.
• Oversaw daily operations to achieve high productivity levels.
• Initialised all COSHH and Risk assessments for the Dental Practice
• Carried out regular audits in accordance to Corporate requirements and GDC guidelines

I joined the Royal Air Force as a qualified Dental Nurse in February 1990

I was Stationed at the following camps:

• RAF Swinderby - basic Training
• RAF Halton - Trade Training and Medical Combat Training
• RAF Cranwell - 1st Posting as Dental Nurse
• RAF Digby - Satellite clinic
• RAF Newton - Satellite clinic
• RAF Coningsby - Acting Corporal (Clinic Manager)

Assisted in all chair side duties making sure RAF personnel were fit for operational duties. These included:

• IV Sedation
• Receipt and dispatch of patient documents
• Maintain Policy and Correspondence documents and amending them accordingly
• Producing bite blocks, study models, special trays and denture repairs
• Taking OPTs and Bite wing radiographs
• Assisting in regular intake of Officer Training recruits for dental screening
• Basic Stock Control
• Compulsory Station duties and deployments

I started my Dental Nursing career with Mr Major as a trainee Dental Surgery Assistant. My main duties were:

• Reception
• All chair side nursing for General Dentistry
• General Anesthetics
• Recovery of patients after GA
• Taking patient payments and banking
• Accurately filling out FP17's and sending off to the DPB
• Debt collecting
• Domiciliary visits

From Leaving college at 18 i worked as a care assistant in a local Care home.

I worked in a Factory packing frozen foods

I worked as a cleaner for a local MP