Dental Nurse

  • Location Plymstock
  • Salary Competitive rates
  • Hours Flexible
  • Contract Permanent
  • 26943
  • Closing date 16th Oct 2023

If you're after more freedom, this will be a breath of fresh air.

Dental Nurse - Plymstock

Wednesday and Friday

16 hours a week

Between £12.18-£13.18 an hour depending on enhanced qualifications

Contact the recruiter on - Emmeline.Roden@bupadentalcare.co.uk

Your GDC registration, DBS check and professional indemnity are all covered by Bupa Dental Care
- A family feel, with the security and stability that comes with being part of Bupa
- Industry-leading benefits (read more on them below)

As a Dental Nurse at Bupa, you’ll benefit from exceptional development and opportunities and an experienced practice team around you - all in an environment built to help you succeed and feel comfortable coming to work.

Qualified Dental Nurse skills and experience required for this role:

  • GDC Registered
  • Preferred SOE/R4 experience
  • Ensure CQC requirements are met
  • Update patient records - digitally held
  • Set up decontamination of instruments
  • Provide clinical chair-side support to dentists
  • Undertake some reception duties
  • Willingness to provide exceptional patient care

Your development at Bupa Dental Care

We have introduced a career framework for dental nurses which links pay to skills, qualifications and progression.

Dental nurses are central to the success of our practices, and we want you to feel valued and well-rewarded for your vital work. Our pay structure offers you clear career direction and professional development opportunities - should you wish to take them. If not, that's ok too, we know how challenging and rewarding a career in dental nursing is, we recognise this and we take action to make life easier for you.

Your salary and benefits:

We make life better for millions. That includes yours. Here are just some of the benefits on offer when you join Bupa Dental Care:

  • Competitive pay rates which increase as you gain more experience.
  • Access to MyHealthcare which gives you quick, easy access to free support, advice, and treatment for a variety of health-related issues, including remote GP, physiotherapy, and mental health support – all available from one phone number. You will also receive the MyHealthcare Allowance, an annual allowance which is redeemable against a menu of Bupa healthcare products, all to the approximate value of £350.
  • My Bupa Extras - discounts at your favourite retailers, plus a huge range of tools, content and information to support you with your financial wellbeing.
  • Access to discounts at a wide variety of gyms and fitness facilities across the UK. This benefit includes access to online digital fitness providers too.
  • Our mental health approach brings together a wide range of support such as our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Family Mental HealthLine and access to Personal Energy - Bupa’s own wellbeing programme.
  • Discounted dental insurance which can be extended to immediate family members.
  • Additional health and wellbeing benefits include Cycle to Work Scheme, free annual Flu vaccine, discounted eye tests and Bupa’s Menopause Plan.
  • Wagestream – Access your income before payday, if and when you need it.
  • You're supported from day one to learn, develop and encouraged to progress. We’ve established dental nurse career pathways leading to senior roles, free specialist training and offer free CPD.
  • We cover your GDC registration, your DBS and professional indemnity - we'll save you hundreds of pounds so you can concentrate on delivering great patient care and building your dental career with us.
  • And many more, just ask.


So why wait? Apply now to be part of a brilliant team.

To find out more about working with us, find us on LinkedIn and Facebook.

Here you’ll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You’ll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer.

If you think you'd be perfect for this role, we'd love to hear from you

Why join Bupa Dental Care?

Join a growing business that puts patients first

We were formed when Bupa acquired the well-established Oasis Dental Care business. Our aim is simple: to deliver world-class patient care in the world of dentistry. We want Bupa Dental Care to be the brand of choice for patients, clinicians and all the people who want to build a career in this field.

We've chosen to provide services via the NHS and privately, giving patients real flexibility and freedom of choice. It's also good for our business, giving us a mix of stability via the NHS and the scope to grow our business across the private side of things.

The Bupa Group purpose

At Bupa, our purpose is to help people to live longer, healthier, happier lives. We do this by putting our patients at the heart of everything, by empowering our people to provide the highest standards of care and by constantly looking to improve upon everything we do. In Bupa Dental Care, we want to become the industry's go-to brand - a thought leader redefining what exceptional dental care looks like.





Love to push yourself? Love to know you’ve got everything you need? Love to keep on growing?

You'll have access to the training you need to achieve everything you want.

We offer a wide variety of training programmes. Some have been designed to hone your skills; others will allow you to specialise in a particular area. You'll also have access to Bupa Continuous Professional Development (CPD) learning at a significantly reduced rate. This contains the full range of core subjects as well as 400 additional hours of learning, providing all the elements required for enhanced CPD.

Expect the right tools and great colleagues in a fulfilling environment

It's imperative that you have the tools you need to be at your best, so we'll provide a vast choice of cons LJ ma b les. We have around 4,000 products available and these are continually reviewed with the major dental companies. You'll be working with some hugely talented people, in an environment that's been designed to put patients front and centre.

Well make sure you have the perfect balance of freedom and support

We'll give you the autonomy you need to decide what's best for your patients, whether they're NHS or private. We'll also be open to your ideas about how we could do things even better, and if you need any expert guidance, we can offer that too. You'll have skilled colleagues alongside you in your practice, a team of clinical experts an-hand in the field and access to a breadth of non-clinical experts in our Support Centre.

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