Dental Nurse

Smile Dental Care; Sturminster Newton; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DBS cost covered

Hep B cost covered

Progression and development

Pension scheme

Job summary

Smile Dental Care invites applications for a Qualified Dental Nurse to join our friendly expanding team on a full or part-time basis.

The role includes chair-side support, ensuring CQC compliance, updating patient records, decontamination, and reception duties; there is also an opportunity to undertake a Sedation Course.

We are a privately-owned family-run company with 35 practices across the UK, offering a supportive culture, ongoing training, and potential for progression.

Qualifications

• Providing chair-side support to dentists during procedures.
• Ensuring CQC requirements are met in daily practice.
• Delivering high-quality patient care and comfort.
• Updating and maintaining accurate patient records.
• Setting up instrument decontamination and sterilisation.
• Handling reception duties and front-desk tasks.

Responsibilities

• Providing clinical chair-side support to dentists.
• Ensuring CQC requirements are met.
• Providing excellent patient care.
• Updating patient records.
• Setting up decontamination of instruments.
• Reception duties.

Skills

Chair-side support

CQC compliance

Patient care

Record updating

Instrument decontamination

Reception duties

Job description

We at Smile Dental Care are looking for a Qualified Dental Nurse to join our friendly expanding team on a Full or Part Time basis.

We can also provide you with the opportunity to do a Sedation Course.

Smile Dental Care are a privately-owned Family run Company set up by an Associate Dentist in 1993, who has a passion to provide a positive working culture throughout the company. We currently have 35 Practices running across the UK from the Scotland all the way down to Devon & Cornwall, we also look to open between 3 – 5 New Practices every Year. Our plan at Smile Dental Care is not to become the largest, but to continue to support and develop our practices and their teams.

The role as a Dental Nurse:

• Providing clinical chair-side support to dentists;
• Ensuring CQC requirements are met;
• Providing excellent patient care;
• Updating patient records;
• Setting up decontamination of instruments;
• Reception duties;

Why Join us:

• Opportunity to increase your salary through training and development;
• DBS cost covered;
• Hep B cost covered;
• Progression and development. We encourage all our dental nurses to take further steps in their career. Many of our dental nurses go on to become lead dental nurses and practice managers;
• Contributory pension scheme;
• Fully Computerised practice (Dentally);
• Uniform provided;
• CPD;
• Pleasant, diverse, respectful and fun workplace;
• Additional course funding – for dental nurses interested in radiography, sedation, impression taking and/or implants.

Reasons to join Smile Dental Care:

• Pay; We can offer competitive Rates of Pay.
• Balance; We aim to accommodate our Employees to allow them to have the ability to have a Work/Life Balance. NO unsociable hours.
• Open Door Policy; We welcome all comments from our Associates & Staff, meaning you never have to feel like you voice your opinions.