Associate Dentist (Mixed)
Colchester, Essex, East Anglia, England
Competitive
Expiry date:30 Jul 2026
Start date:01 May 2026
🦷 Associate Dentist – Mixed Practice (New Patient Focus)
Permanent Role | Thursday & Friday | Private Growth Opportunity
We are recruiting for an experienced, patient-focused Associate Dentist to join a well-established mixed practice in a distinctive, growth-led role centred around new patient intake and private treatment conversion.
This position is ideal for a confident clinician who enjoys relationship-building, trust development, and growing a private patient base over time, rather than working under strict UDA-driven targets. ✨
📍 Role Overview
🏥 About the Practice
A well-established mixed practice with consistent patient demand and a strong emphasis on long-term patient relationships and private growth.
Get in touch today for a confidential discussion.
Dental Recruit Network are a trusted supplier of NHS and Private Dental services. We supply work to Dental Nurses, Dental Receptionists, Practice Managers, Dental Hygienists and Dentists. We are one of the fastest growing recruitment agencies in the UK and supply Nationwide. Dental Recruit Network are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
Permanent Role | Thursday & Friday | Private Growth Opportunity
We are recruiting for an experienced, patient-focused Associate Dentist to join a well-established mixed practice in a distinctive, growth-led role centred around new patient intake and private treatment conversion.
This position is ideal for a confident clinician who enjoys relationship-building, trust development, and growing a private patient base over time, rather than working under strict UDA-driven targets. ✨
📍 Role Overview
- Position: Associate Dentist
- Employment: Permanent
- Practice type: Mixed
- Working days: Thursday & Friday
- Start date: ASAP 🚀
- Thursday: 09:00 – 19:00
- Friday: 09:00 – 16:30
- Optional Saturday sessions: 09:00 – 13:00
- Additional weekday sessions available for those seeking full-time hours
- £13 per UDA (flexible, not target-driven)
- 50% private split
- 50/50 lab fees
- Strong opportunity to grow private income through new patient conversion
🏥 About the Practice
A well-established mixed practice with consistent patient demand and a strong emphasis on long-term patient relationships and private growth.
- Modern, well-equipped surgeries
- SOE (Software of Excellence) system in use
- Experienced and supportive clinical team
- Strong new patient flow supporting diary development
- Wide range of in-house treatments available
- General dentistry
- Invisalign / orthodontics
- Implants
- Facial aesthetics (Botox)
- Opportunity to expand private treatment offerings
- Managing a consistent flow of new patients
- Building trust and long-term patient relationships
- Converting appropriate cases into private treatment plans
- Delivering ethical, high-quality dentistry
- Developing and maintaining your own private patient base over time
- GDC-registered Dentist with NHS Performer Number
- Experience in general dentistry
- Confident in building and managing a patient list
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- Professional, patient, and commercially aware approach
- No high-pressure UDA targets
- Focus on quality dentistry and patient relationships
- Strong platform to build a private patient base
- Structured, supportive environment for private growth
- Exposure to a wide range of advanced treatments
- Flexible diary structure supporting organic development
Get in touch today for a confidential discussion.
Dental Recruit Network are a trusted supplier of NHS and Private Dental services. We supply work to Dental Nurses, Dental Receptionists, Practice Managers, Dental Hygienists and Dentists. We are one of the fastest growing recruitment agencies in the UK and supply Nationwide. Dental Recruit Network are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
