Practice Manager

Job Description

An exciting and rare opportunity has become available for a  Practice Manager  to join our well-established practice,  Portway Dental Care  in Wantage, Oxfordshire.

This vacancy offers an outstanding opportunity for the right candidate. You'll be working in the longest established dental practice in the beautiful market town of Wantage. The practice covers the ground floor of a historic house which boosts many unique features including its beautiful Victorian Stain Glass Front Door. The team are friendly and work together to create a caring atmosphere for their patients. Parking is available at the practice and the 'Olde Worlde' town centre is just a five-minute walk away.

Portway Dental Care is a very reputable 4 surgery practice, their highly skilled and friendly team are dedicated to delivering first class patient care and are looking forward to welcoming a new Dental Nurse to join their team.

Our Practice Managers areresponsible for providing leadership to practice colleagues (Associates and Employed) to ensure we put patients at the heart of everything we do and in order to drive practice growth, increase revenue opportunities, and operate the effective day-to-day financial management and logistics of the practice.

We welcome your application if you have management experience within a dental setting. Other industries such as healthcare or commercial (, retail / hospitality) will also be considered.

The merger between Portman Dental Care and Dentex brings together two of the UK’s leading providers of private-focused dental care with shared values based on community, integrity and dedication to clinical freedom. Both companies celebrate the individuality of our practices and their teams and our shared focus remains on putting people first; this means exceptional care for our patients, industry-leading support for our practices and access to the best professional opportunities. Together we are one of the largest dental group’s in the UK, operating over 350 UK practices, with more than 4,000 members in our community, providing for more than million patients annually across the UK, Ireland and Benelux. Scaling together the strength of our businesses will enable us to continuously invest in building excellence in customer service and support to our practices and teams. Our ambition is to become the dental partner of choice and undisputed leader in high-quality dental care.

What we need from you:

Strong business and team leader

Commercially astute; sales, target and KPI driven

Excellent communication skills

To listen, be understanding and empathic at all times

Strong clinical and interpersonal skills, keeping patient satisfaction in mind Friendly and welcoming manner

Teamwork orientated with an enthusiastic attitude

CQC registered

Excellent knowledge of CQC and compliance

Maintenance and marketing of the practice within set budgets

Day to day management of CQC activities

Competent in health and safety management, and dental compliance

Ad hoc receptionist and nursing duties, GDC registered

Any other ad hoc responsibilities as reasonably requested

What we offer you:

32 hours per week, within the parameters of the Practice opening hours 

Auto enrol pension scheme

24/7 access to free Employee Assistance Programme

20 day holiday allowance plus bank holidays (pro rata)

Regular in house professional development sessions acceptable to the GDC

Career opportunities across the PortmanDentex Health group

If you would like to find out more about joining PortmanDentex as a  Practice Manager,  please feel free to review our website for more information, or apply with your latest CV and one of our recruitment team will contact you.

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Additional Information

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplace. We are committed to creating an environment of mutual respect and are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities regardless of race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, pregnancy or maternity, marital or civil partner status, disability, age, or nationality.