Field Dental Nurse – Full Time (37.5 hours)

Bupa Dental Care – West Derby
Hiring Manager: Emma Burdett

Are you a passionate, organised and flexible Dental Nurse looking for variety in your working week? Bupa Dental Care West Derby is seeking a Full Time Field Dental Nurse to join our friendly and supportive team.

🕒 Hours & Working Pattern

• 37.5 hours per week
• Shifts between 8:00am–6:00pm, Monday to Friday
• Travel required across our local Bupa Dental Care campus practices

📍 Practice Locations You Will Cover

You’ll mainly work across the following Bupa practices:

• West Derby
• Stockbridge
• Deysbrook
• Crosby

You may also occasionally be asked to support other practices in the local area, giving you great exposure and experience across different teams and clinical settings.

🦷 What We Offer

We take care of the essentials so you can focus on delivering excellent patient care:

• GDC registration fully funded
• DBS check covered
• Professional indemnity paid for
• Access to Bupa’s wider employee benefits and career development pathways

You'll be joining a stable, well‑supported organisation with the feel of a close‑knit local team.

🌟 About the Role

As a Field Dental Nurse, you will:

• Provide chairside support across multiple sites
• Build strong working relationships with clinicians and practice teams
• Support a variety of treatments
• Deliver exceptional patient care
• Have flexibility and a proactive approach to changing schedules and workloads

This role is ideal for a Dental Nurse who enjoys a mix of environments, values teamwork, and thrives on variety.

Ready to Join Us?

If you're a qualified Dental Nurse who enjoys a dynamic role and would love to be part of Emma Burdett’s team, we’d be delighted to hear from you.

Here at Bupa Dental Care our people are at the heart of everything we do, because we care.  We have created environments where people can look forward to coming to work, feel empowered and benefit from working collaboratively with brilliant & talented experts.

As a Field Dental Nurse  you’ll be benefiting from an experienced practice team, exceptional development and opportunities to take you as far as you want to go; and that’s just to mention a few.

Qualified Field Dental Nurse responsibilities:

• Providing clinical chairside support to dentists
• Working in multiple locations within a 1 hour radius of your base practice
• Ensuring CQC requirements are met
• Providing excellent patient care
• Updating patient records
• Setting up decontamination of instruments
• Reception duties

Skills and experience:

• GDC Registered
• Driving licence and access to your own transport
• Willingness to travel
• Enjoys working in different practices with a range of specialist and practitioners
• Personable, positive and enthusiastic with a great customer focus
• Preferred Dentally experience
• Strong communication skills

Salary and benefits:

We make life better for millions. That includes yours. Our dental nurse benefits packages are one of the best in the industry because you make a difference to our patients - so we want to make sure you’re well rewarded for it. These are just some of the benefits on offer when you join: 

• Competitive pay rates and the opportunity to increase this through training and development
• Reimbursed business mileage or a £200 travel allowance
• 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, Facebook and Instagram.

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.