Dental Nurse

Colchester, Essex, East Anglia, England
£13 - £15 per hour
Expiry date:03 Mar 2026
Start date:03 Dec 2025
✨ Join Our Friendly Dental Team in Colchester! – Dental Nurse Vacancy ✨

Are you a caring, organised, and motivated Dental Nurse looking for your next opportunity? Our welcoming Colchester practice is excited to bring a new Dental Nurse into our supportive, warm, and patient-focused team. We’re a well-established two-surgery mixed practice, offering both private and NHS dentistry, giving you the chance to work in a varied and rewarding clinical environment every day.

This is a permanent role, available on a full-time or part-time basis, and we’re ready for the right person to join us as soon as possible

You’ll enjoy a Monday to Friday schedule only, with no weekends or bank holidays.

🦷 What You’ll Be Doing

In this role, you’ll be an essential part of creating a positive patient journey and supporting clinicians day-to-day. Your responsibilities will include:
  • Providing chairside assistance across a range of general dentistry treatments
  • Preparing surgeries before appointments and ensuring smooth turnaround times
  • Managing instruments, sterilisation, and maintaining excellent cross-infection control
  • Updating and maintaining patient records using Kodak R4
  • Ensuring stock levels are maintained and organised
  • Supporting patients throughout their visit with a reassuring, friendly manner
  • Working closely with the dental team to keep the practice running efficiently
  • Upholding a tidy, safe, and welcoming clinical environment
💷 Salary & Benefits

We want you to feel valued, supported, and appreciated. We offer:
  • £13–£15 per hour, depending on experience
  • Annual salary review
  • Paid CPD to support your professional development
  • Paid parking permit, so no need to worry about daily costs
  • Supportive team culture with opportunities to learn and grow
  • A practice happy to welcome newly qualified nurses
  • No weekend or bank holiday work—enjoy your free time
💙 Who We’re Looking For We’d love to hear from you if you are:
  • A qualified Dental Nurse (newly qualified welcome!)
  • Someone with a warm, friendly, and professional approach
  • A good communicator who can put patients at ease
  • Organised, reliable, and able to work well under pressure
  • A team player who enjoys contributing to a positive practice environment
  • Eager to learn, grow, and build confidence in general dentistry
📩 Ready to Join Us? If you’re looking for a role where you’ll feel supported, valued, and part of a genuinely friendly team, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
Apply today and take the next step in your dental nursing career with us in Colchester!

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.
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