Qualified Dental Nurse – Bupa Dental Care Halstead
Full-time · 34 hours per week
Location: Bupa Dental Care, 2 Butler Road, Halstead, CO9 1LL
Join Paul Amey and our welcoming team at Bupa Dental Care Halstead, a friendly mixed NHS and private practice serving its community for over 30 years.
We are looking for a Qualified, GDC-registered Dental Nurse who is confident supporting both clinical and reception duties. If you're positive, reliable and passionate about patient care, we’d love to hear from you.
What we’re offering
A stable, supportive working environment
1. A genuinely friendly, close-knit practice team with a strong community feel.
2. The reassurance, structure and development opportunities that come from being part of Bupa Dental Care.
What’s included
3. GDC registration, DBS check and professional indemnity fully covered by Bupa Dental Care.
4. Industry‑leading benefits package (holiday, discounts, health support and more).
5. On‑call rota payments available.
6. Mixed role combining Dental Nursing and Receptionist duties.
Your working hours (34 hours per week)
7. Monday: 8.5 hours
8. Tuesday: 8.5 hours
9. Wednesday: 8.5 hours
10. Thursday: 8.5 hours
11. Saturday: rota basis
About the practice
Bupa Dental Care Halstead is a modern, wheelchair-accessible practice offering a full range of general, restorative, cosmetic and orthodontic treatments. Located centrally in Halstead, it’s easy for patients and staff to access.
How to get here
Address: 2 Butler Road, Halstead, Essex, CO9 1LL
The practice sits close to Halstead High Street, making it easy to reach by local bus routes and within walking distance of town‑centre parking facilities.
About you
We’d love to hear from you if you are:
12. A qualified Dental Nurse (GDC registered)
13. Confident in chairside support and adaptable to reception administration
14. Team‑oriented, enthusiastic, and committed to excellent patient care
As a 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:
15. GDC Registered
16. Preferred Dentally experience
17. Ensure CQC requirements are met
18. Update patient records - digitally held
19. Set up decontamination of instruments
20. Provide clinical chair-side support to dentists
21. Undertake some reception duties
22. Willingness to provide exceptional patient care
Your development at Bupa Dental Care
We have introduced a career framework for 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:
23. Competitive pay rates which increase as you gain more experience.
24. 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.
25. My Bupa Extras - discounts at your favourite retailers, plus a huge range of tools, content and information to support you with your financial wellbeing.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. Discounted dental insurance which can be extended to immediate family members.
29. Additional health and wellbeing benefits include Cycle to Work Scheme, free annual Flu vaccine, discounted eye tests and Bupa’s Menopause Plan.
30. Wagestream – Access your income before payday, if and when you need it.
31. 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.
32. 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.
33. And many more, just ask.
Benefits
- Shop discounts (over 700 stores)- Gym discounts- GDC Registration (UK Only)- Professional indemnity- Free CPD- Employee referral scheme- And many more!