Progressive, proactive and proud
Part of our ethos at Colosseum Dental UK is to engage with our practice team members, listen to what they need and act on what they tell us. We are a team and only by working together can we meet our objectives of delivering outstanding patient care while supporting career progression and job satisfaction.
Having recently invested heavily in our practice manager population, we’re now focusing on showing our dental nurses just how much they mean to their clinics, their patients and the business. As such, we have been proactive in embarking on the ‘Year of the Nurse’ across our clinics. Our aim is to further improve the working environment for our nurses and become the very best place to work for them that we possibly can. So, we’re using the feedback from our last Great Place to Work survey to help us do this.
So, what does this mean for our dental nurses?
The first area we looked at was remuneration and ensuring that we reward our dental nurses for their skills and dedication to their clinics and their patients. As such, we have removed any criteria for higher pay opportunities associated with age. Now, all our dental nurses have the chance to earn more based on their skills and hard work, ensuring complete equality.
We have also reviewed how and what we pay our dental nurses. This is because we want to ensure that we offer very competitive salaries in the market today. We are also keen to recognise those individuals who have advanced skills and capabilities within their role. Not only will we now pay for the training that our dental nurses need to broaden their skills as needed in their practices, but we will also pay them more once they are qualified to acknowledge the enhanced support they can provide to their patients and their team members.
This is all in addition to the fact that we already cover our dental nurses’ GDC registration fees and indemnity charges.
However, we appreciate that financial perks are not the only option we can offer our dental nurses. Consequently, we have looked at the benefits we provide as well and have recently announced a change to the holiday entitlement available for our nurses. From now on, the longer a dental nurse works with us, the more annual holiday they will receive. It’s just our way of thanking those individuals who have worked with us for several years and continued to help us deliver the excellent patient care that we strive for every day.
But the changes won’t stop there.
At Colosseum Dental UK, we are proud to be constantly changing and introducing new protocols that further improve the lives of our people. We want to stay flexible wherever we can and to adapt to the evolving needs of our practice teams and our patients. It is for this very reason that we have a small leadership team, as we are able to make decisions quickly and remain responsive in every area of the company.
In order to keep growing and improving as a dental provider and an employer, we need input from all our practice team members. As such, we will be actively encouraging our dental nurses to provide feedback on the latest changes we have made and advantages we have implemented just for them to make sure that they are benefitting as we hope they will. We also welcome suggestions on new ideas that could further enhance our offerings for dental nurses and how we support the delivery of their patient care. We are here to listen to our people on the ground, to understand what they need and deliver whatever we can to make their daily lives in practice as simple as possible. To do this effectively, we are always progressing, always investing further in our clinics and in our dental professionals.
As we move into the next phase of our journey, why not see what we could offer you? Dental nurses are very highly valued at Colosseum Dental UK and we are doing everything we can to show this in the benefits we offer and the working environment we create just for you. Give us a call today to find out more.
For more information about Colosseum Dental, please visit www.colosseumdental.co.uk/careers