Dental Nurse

The role

Bristol Dental School is a city centre state-of-the-art site (1 Trinity Quay, Avon Street, Bristol) delivering a new operating model and have settled ways of working since opening Summer 2023.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a dental nurse looking to work in a positive and friendly environment for maternity cover. We are looking for someone who is self-motivated, able to work flexibly across multidisciplinary areas in the new 119 chair clinical facility adhering to our policies and procedures. These will be used operationally to set standards to the students within the school.

You will support the Lead Dental Nurse and assist with the day-to-day running, of the clinical operations, and will be involved in the delivery of education in this predominantly teaching environment, providing direct clinical care to patients in our community.

There will be opportunities for in-house CPD.

What will you be doing?

• Providing support to the dental students, with a focus on flexible working on different clinics throughout the Dental School.
• Promoting safe working practices and guidance which underpins the training of dental nurses, dental undergraduates and to also support postgraduate students in the future.
• Preparation and rotation within the clinical area and the clinical skills suite. You will be setting up clinical bays on individual departments where you will also provide chairside assistance to staff and students as required. To include the management of materials and supplies (ordering and stocktaking), the maintenance of equipment and their repair when necessary.
• Providing guidance and training in dental nursing and dental imaging techniques or working towards training in dental imaging within the departmental radiology spaces.
• Highlighting the importance of Quality Assurance, Health & Safety and Infection Prevention Control on induction to clinics and laboratories for trainee dental nurses, dental undergraduates and subsequently throughout their clinical placement.

You should apply if

• You are an enthusiastic individual who has the ability to both self-motivate and motivate others to achieve great results.
• Be organised to support and deliver a full range of dental nursing duties across clinical departments, dental radiology, and the dental laboratories.
• You have a dental nurse qualification and registered with the General Dental Council.

Additional information

Contract type: Fixed Term (FTC). Maternity cover until 18/12/2026.

This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 21/06/2026

For informal queries please contact: Lisa.jones@bristol.ac.uk (Deputy Head of Dental Nursing)