Dental Nurse (Saturday Only) – Bupa Dental Care Timperley

Join Practice Manager Laura Thomas and her friendly team!

Looking for a role that fits perfectly around your week? We’re looking for a caring, reliable Dental Nurse to join our supportive team at Bupa Dental Care Timperley on a Saturday-only basis — ideal for work/life balance, extra income, or keeping your skills fresh.

You’ll be working alongside an experienced team in a practice that feels like family, with the security, stability, and career support that comes with being part of Bupa Dental Care.

🕒 Working Hours

Saturday only
✅ 6.5 hours per week
M0, T0, W0, T0, F0, S6.5

✨ What you’ll be doing

As a Dental Nurse at Bupa, you’ll play a key part in delivering outstanding patient care by:

• Supporting clinicians during a range of dental procedures
• Preparing surgery environments and ensuring high standards of infection control
• Providing reassurance and a friendly experience for every patient
• Keeping accurate clinical records and supporting smooth appointment flow

✅ What’s covered by Bupa

We take the hassle out of the essentials, so you can focus on doing what you do best:
✔ GDC registration paid for
✔ DBS check provided
✔ Professional indemnity covered

💙 Why Bupa Dental Care?

At Bupa, you’ll enjoy a genuine “family feel” practice environment, backed by the confidence that comes from being part of a trusted healthcare brand.

Industry-leading benefits include:

• A supportive and welcoming team culture
• Access to brilliant training and development opportunities
• Bupa discounts and wellbeing support
• Secure, stable employment with a respected dental provider

(We can include a full benefits list in the advert if you’d like the longer version!)

📍 About Bupa Dental Care Timperley – Location & Getting Here

Our Timperley practice is based in a fantastic South Manchester location, surrounded by great local amenities including shops, cafés, and restaurants, making it a convenient place to work — whether you're grabbing a coffee before your shift or picking something up afterwards.

Getting here is easy:
🚋 Great tram links via the Metrolink — with Timperley and surrounding stops nearby
🚆 Close to Altrincham and neighbouring areas with strong transport routes
🚗 Accessible by car, with local road links connecting quickly to Sale, Altrincham, and the wider Manchester area
🚌 Regular local bus routes also run through the area

This makes it ideal if you’re commuting from Manchester, Altrincham, Sale, Hale, Stretford, or surrounding suburbs.

🙌 Who we’re looking for

We’d love to hear from you if you are:

• A qualified Dental Nurse (or currently studying with relevant experience)
• Friendly, professional, and passionate about patient care
• A great team player with a positive attitude
• Looking for a Saturday-only role in a supportive practice

📩 Ready to apply?

Join Practice Manager Laura Thomas and become part of something special at Bupa Dental Care Timperley.

Apply today — we’d love to welcome you to the team!

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 Dentally 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.

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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 takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We are committed to ensuring you are treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer