A dedication to working with homeless people recently won dental nurse Kelly Bent recognition when she scooped a prize in the Accessible Award category of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust's 2015 Winter Values in Practice Awards.
Accessing health services has been made easier for Birmingham's homeless community thanks to a partnership between Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust and the charity, SIFA Fireside, that offers a number of services to the charity's purpose-built drop-in centre in Digbeth. Here, Kelly talks about the career path that led her there.
I passed my National Examining Board for Dental Nurses Qualification in 1995, after completing a two-year training programme at Matthew Boulton College in Birmingham. This also involved a dental practice clinical attachment. I was really interested in becoming a general nurse. That was, until I saw an advert in the local paper for the position of a trainee dental nurse and I thought, why not?
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