This is your opportunity to develop your skills at Smiles Dental in a hands-on role, gaining a nationally-recognised qualification and earning whilst you learn.

Smiles Quay Dental, Galway Practice

Full Time: 40 hours per week

Monday to Friday 8-5

Salary Banding: 14.15-15.27 euros

As a Smiles Trainee Dental Nurse, you’ll be given full support so you can balance both studies and work. Whoever you are, whatever your background, the work and effort you do will put you in the best possible place, for the best possible career.

You’ll learn from people in your team who have been there, seen it and done it. Together we’ll give you the skills that will set you off on the right foot for the rest of your career and help you make the choices that are right for you.

The role as a Trainee Dental Nurse:

• Providing clinical chair-side support to dentists
• Providing excellent patient care
• Updating patient records
• Setting up decontamination of instruments
• Reception duties

About you:

• Personable, positive and enthusiastic with a great customer focus
• Preferred previous customer service experience
• Strong communication skills

Salary and benefits:

• Good remuneration package
• Competitive staff benefits including discounts in huge range of retailers
• Free access to an online GP in partnership with Medical Solutions - book a video or telephone call with an experienced GP at a time to suit you. You have access to an unlimited number of appointments, 24/7, 365 days a year
• Uniform provided
• Cycle to work scheme
• Refer a friend scheme – recommend a friend to come and work here and earn up to €3,000 per referral
• Friendly team environment
• Lots of development opportunities
• Great management and clinical support & guidance throughout the programme
• Modern surgeries and internal opportunities available across our 470 practices in the UK and Ireland
• Modern computerised dental software system
• Opportunity to work at other practices in the local vicinity

If you or someone you know would be interested in working with a dynamic and expanding healthcare business as a Dental Nurse, with lots of support on offer, great benefits and friendly teams, we would love to hear from you!

To find out more about working with us, find us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Smiles Dental is committed to ensuring that every applicant is assessed for employment, promotion and development solely based on personal merit and qualifications, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.

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.

Smiles Dental is part of Bupa and to complete this application you will be taken to the Bupa Dental Care careers website.