🦷 Apprentice Dental Nurse

Bupa Dental Care Newark

 Join Pegah Eslamimazhab and her friendly, supportive team at Bupa Dental Care Newark as an Apprentice Dental Nurse. This is a fantastic opportunity to start your dental career while gaining a nationally recognised qualification in a welcoming, well-established practice.

📍 About the Practice & Location Based in Newark, you’ll be working in a modern, well-run practice with an experienced clinical team who are passionate about delivering excellent patient care and supporting apprentices to succeed. This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to develop new skills, gain hands-on experience, and begin a rewarding career in dental nursing.

⏰ Working Hours This is a full-time position, 38 hours per week, working across the following rota:

• Monday: 08:45 – 19:15
• Tuesday: 08:45 – 17:15
• Wednesday: 08:45 – 17:15
• Thursday: 08:45 – 17:15
• Friday: 08:45 – 15:15

🎓 What You'll Learn As an Apprentice Dental Nurse, you'll gain valuable experience while working alongside experienced dental professionals. You will learn how to:

• Support clinicians during a range of dental procedures
• Prepare and maintain dental instruments and equipment
• Deliver excellent patient care and customer service
• Maintain high standards of infection prevention and control
• Understand dental practice administration and compliance
• Work towards a recognised Dental Nurse qualification

🌟 Why Join Bupa Dental Care? 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 industry experts to help us achieve our aim of helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives. Ready to take the first step in your dental career?
Apply today and join Pegah Eslamimazhab and the team at Bupa Dental Care Newark.

As an Apprentice Dental Nurse with Bupa Dental Care, you can feel at ease knowing we’re fully invested in you, at the start of your dentistry career. You’ll work in a warm, welcoming environment where you are not only valued, but supported to grow. And with our flexible working patterns, you can make work-life balance a reality. 
 
Benefits that help you feel at ease in your career  

• Proud to be a Great Place to Work® Certified employer and recognised as one of the UK's Best Workplaces for Women™ and UK's Best Workplaces for Development™ 2026, reflecting our commitment to an inclusive, supportive culture where people can thrive.
• Industry-leading progression and pay framework, based on your skills and experience.
• Bupa Dental Care ranks 15th in the Department for Education’s Top 100 Apprenticeship Employers list for 2025, and 93% of our Dental Nursing Apprentices are on track to complete on time.
• Exclusive access to unique training and development opportunities with 300+ online courses available through Bupa Learn, access to Tempdent’s CPD platform and LinkedIn Learning.
• Market-leading wellbeing support, including remote GP services, physiotherapy and mental health support. You’ll receive a fully funded period and menopause plan, a free health assessment and a £350 allowance to use on selected Bupa products.
• Paid‑for essentials such as registration, DBS checks, professional indemnity and vaccinations, plus access to financial wellbeing support through Stream.
• Flexible working patterns designed to support your life outside of work.
• And much more, from colleague discounts and financial wellbeing support to health and lifestyle benefits designed to support you every day. 

 
What to expect from the Dental Nurse Apprenticeship 

Our apprenticeship gives you the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to become a GDC‑registered Dental Nurse. You’ll earn while you learn, gaining hands‑on experience as you provide great patient care and support clinicians chairside. 

You’ll also build core skills in areas such as: 

• Oral anatomy and dental procedures
• Infection prevention and control
• Patient care and health promotion
• Safety, compliance and managing clinical situations 

 
Qualification you’ll achieve 

Level 3 Dental Nurse qualification completed over 18–24 months 

Level 2 English and Maths (GCSE A*–C equivalents) required before your end point assessment — we’ll support you if you need to achieve these. 

About our (insert practice name) practice 

[Recruiters – insert practice info here… example below] Join a modern, state‑of‑the‑art healthcare clinic with six fully equipped treatment rooms and an experienced, highly motivated multidisciplinary team. You’ll work alongside skilled nurses, healthcare assistants and a dedicated patient coordinator who will support you to excel in your role and deliver exceptional care to every patient. 

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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.