Senior Dental Nurse

Were Hiring a Full-Time Senior Dental Nurse

Location Truro, Monday-Friday Salary: £32,240.00 Closing Date: 15th July 2026

Interview Date: Thursday
23rd July 2026

Areyou passionate about helping others and making a real difference? Do you wantto be part of a team where your work truly impacts your community, the environment, and the future of healthcare? Then Smile Together is the place foryou!

What are we looking for?

Are you an experienced dental nurse who thrives on variety, flexibility, and making a real impact? This is an exciting opportunity to take your skills by supporting our team to deliver excellent patient care where and when its needed most.

As a Senior Dental Nurse, youll provide clinical and operational support. From short-notice cover to planned support, youll play a key role in maintaining continuity of care and upholding the highest standards in infection control, safeguarding, compliance, and patient experience.

Youll work closely with Practice Managers to support day-to-day operations, and act as a role model and mentor to dental nurses and trainees, helping them settle into practice life and grow in confidence. Whether its preparing a surgery, supporting a colleague, or helping implement service improvements, your reliability, professionalism, and clinical experience will make you an invaluable part of our team.

Paid indemnity and GDC registration

Wevegotyou covered so you can focus on your career.

Timeoff

27 dayspaid annual leave plus bank holidays each year (pro rata) and an additional paid day off to celebrate your birthday because you deserve to be celebrated!

Professional Development:

Wellhelp you develop your skills with access to our Smile Together Training Academy, including a paid subscription to Agilio for continuous professional development.

Community Involvement:

Get involved in impactful community projects and outreach initiatives across theregion. Opportunity for half a days paid volunteer time*

Healthand Wellbeing:

Comprehensive Wellbeing Support through our Health Assured Programme, youll have access to tools for mental and physical health, including 24-hour helplines, structured therapy, and more.

Job Summary

The post holder will act as the CQC Registered Manager. They will be accountable for the day-to-day running of the practice, leading and supporting all clinical and non-clinical staff to ensure:

• Safe, efficient and compliant operations in line with CQC, GDC, Health & Safety, Employment Law and all relevant regulatory frameworks.
• High-quality patient care, effective service delivery and cost control aligned with organisational strategy, clinical governance and company values.
• Strong leadership, coaching and development of practice teams to ensure outstanding performance and professional growth.

The post holder will be an integral member of the team, consistently demonstrating behaviours that reflect Smile Togethers vision, mission and organisational values.

As an employee you must take personal responsibility for understanding and complying with Smile Togethers standards and any other Standards of Professional Conduct of any government, regulatory organisation, licensing agency, or professional association governing your professional activities.

Handbook

The expectations of the organisation are outlined in the employee handbook, and you are expected to familiarise yourself with those expectations.

Social Enterprise

All employees are aware of the status of Smile Together Dental CIC as a Social Enterprise and are expected to commit to the values expected of a CIC and actively contribute to innovations in supporting the local community to improve oral health.

Key accountabilities:

Leadership & Performance

Create a supportive, inclusive and motivated working environment across all Smile Together locations.

Provide clear leadership that encourages innovation, accountability and excellent patient care.

Lead by example with behaviours aligned to Smile Togethers vision, mission and values.

Ensure safe day-to-day operations across sites including infection prevention and control, decontamination procedures (HTM 01-05), health and safety and security.

Ensure compliance with all audit, governance, safeguarding and regulatory requirements, reviewing outcomes and implementing improvements.

Build high-performing clinical and non-clinical teams that achieve service and revenue performance targets.

Conduct regular performance reviews, 1:1s and appraisals as per the review cycle.

Ensure the whole Dental team maintain Personal Development Plans and meet mandatory and CPD requirements.

Support professional development and capability building and lead structured induction processes.

Manage individual and team performance in line with policies, values and behaviours.

Produce action plans, reports and documentation to support KPIs and service improvement, including timely incident management reporting.

Work collaboratively with the Service Manager and Commercial Manager to optimise practice…