Lead Dental Nurse

Overview

Lead Dental Nurse – Bupa Dental Care Woodford. Join Practice Manager Ashish Bechra and lead a friendly, high-performing team at Bupa Dental Care Woodford.

We’re looking for a confident, motivated Lead Dental Nurse who’s ready to take the next step in their career within a supportive, well-established Bupa practice.

As Lead Dental Nurse, you’ll play a key role in supporting the clinical team, maintaining excellent standards of patient care, and helping the practice run smoothly day to day.

• Full-time role – 37 hours per week
• Working pattern:
• Monday: 8:00 – 5:00
• Tuesday: 8:00 – 5:00
• Wednesday: 8:00 – 5:00
• Friday: 8:00 – 4:30
• Saturday: 8:45 – 14:30

• GDC registered Dental Nurse (essential)
• Leadership experience or the confidence to step into a lead role
• A positive, professional, and patient-focused approach

• Your GDC registration, DBS check, and professional indemnity fully covered
• Access to industry-leading training and career development
• Supportive leadership and a collaborative working environment
• The stability and benefits of working with a trusted healthcare brand

Our Woodford practice is located in a vibrant and leafy part of North East London
, close to Epping Forest
, local cafés, shops, and amenities—perfect for lunch breaks or a walk after work.

• Excellent transport links:
  Just a short walk from Woodford Underground Station (Central Line)
• Easy road access via the A406 (North Circular) and M11
• Well connected by local bus routes

This makes the practice easily accessible whether you’re commuting from London or Essex.

If you’re ready to lead, inspire, and grow your career with Bupa Dental Care, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today and take the next step with Bupa Dental Care Woodford.

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

• Confident leading a team
• GDC Registered
• Preferred Dentally experience
• Ensure CQC requirements are met and manage audits
• Oversee reception and staff rotas
• Update patient records
• Set up decontamination of instruments
• Provide clinical chair-side support to dentists
• Undertake some reception duties
• Personable, positive and enthusiastic with a great customer focus
• Strong communication skills
• Provide excellent patient care

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:

• A competitive starting salary and the opportunity to increase this through training and development
• We cover your GDC registration, your DBS and professional indemnity - we'll save you hundreds of pounds and you can concentrate on great patient care and building your dental career with us
• To help with this we have established dental nurse career pathways leading to senior roles, free specialist training and free CPD. Being part of Bupa means access to many different career opportunities across other parts of the business too.
• Access to our Health Cash Plan where you can claim back everyday health expenses like the opticians, therapies or consultations.
• Access to discounted gym memberships with a flexible, monthly subscription service giving you access to national multi-site gyms, online live classes, fitness & wellbeing apps and 1-2-1 training sessions
• Free access to a digital GP. You have access to an unlimited number of appointments 24/7, normally available within two hours
• 24/7 free access to Healthy Minds for you and your immediate family. Talk to a counselor about any challenges you face at home or at work - whether you are having a bad day or want…