Head of Talent Acquisition - Dental

Bupa; Staines-upon-Thames; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Bupa is seeking a Head of Talent Acquisition to shape the future of recruitment in a fast-moving environment. This leadership role involves driving change, leading clinician attraction strategies, and improving candidate experience, contributing to overall organisational success.

Benefits

25% Management Bonus

Car allowance

Family health insurance

Pension scheme

Enhanced parental leave

25 days holiday

Discounts on dental and health services

Opportunities to grow your role and career globally

Qualifications

• Proven experience in talent acquisition leadership, ideally in healthcare or retail.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, especially with senior leaders.
• A passion for inclusion, talent development, and purpose-led culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinician attraction strategy for self-employed dentists across the UK.
• Modernise and oversee recruitment for all health and operational roles.
• Build a high-performing, inclusive recruitment team and optimise systems.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Strategic Thinking

Data Literacy

Job description

Job Description:

Head of Talent Acquisition - Bupa Dental Care

Competitive Salary, Bonus & Benefits

UK / Hybrid (regular travel to Bupa offices)

Permanent – 37.5 hours per week

Closing Date: 15th July 2025

We make health happen

At Bupa, we’re here to help people live longer, healthier, happier lives – and make a better world. That’s our purpose, and it runs through everything we do. As part of Bupa Dental Care, you’ll be joining one of the UK’s largest corporate dental providers, where we’re transforming how dental care is delivered.

This role is your chance to shape the future of talent acquisition in a fast-moving, people-first business. You’ll lead the charge in attracting top clinical and operational talent, helping us deliver outstanding care to our patients. If you’re passionate about people, purpose, and progress – this is where you can make a real difference.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead our clinician attraction strategy: Designing and delivering a market-leading approach to attract self-employed dentists and specialists across the UK and Ireland.

• Modernise and lead end-to-end recruitment: Oversee recruitment for all employed and practice-based roles – from nurses to operational teams

• Transform our team and tools: Build a high-performing, inclusive recruitment team. Introduce smarter, more agile ways of working, and optimise our systems

• Champion our brand and candidate experience: Bring our employer brand to life

• Collaborate and influence: Act as a strategic partner to senior stakeholders across Clinical, Operations, People and Commercial teams

What We’re Looking For

• Collaborative, commercial, and people-focused leader who thrives on driving change

• Proven experience in talent acquisition leadership – ideally in healthcare or retail

• Strategic thinking and commercial acumen

• Ideally knowledge of clinical or self-employed talent markets

• A track record of transforming recruitment teams, systems, and experiences

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, especially with senior leaders

• Data literacy and the ability to use insights to drive improvement

• A passion for inclusion, talent development, and purpose-led culture

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family-friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25% Management Bonus (annual, discretionary)

• Car allowance (paid as cash)

• Family health insurance

• Pension scheme

• Enhanced parental leave

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service

• Discounts on dental and health services

• Opportunities to grow your role and career globally

Why Bupa

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”. We champion diversity and understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

Locations:

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Clinic & Dental - Bristol, Unit 1, Pinetrees, Staines