Want to earn yourself some extra cash through Facebook?

Here's how it works.  If you see a job on dentalangels.co.uk that you think one of your friends on Facebook might be interested in post it on your facebook site.  All you need to do is click on the job, and then click the button on the left of the screen saying "share on facebook."  You can add a few words of your own, about the job, or who you think might like the job, and that is it.

For every person that gets a job through us sent from your facebook page, we will send you £50.  If you get 5 people jobs we will then give you an extra £100 on top.  So with five friends you could earn yourself £350, which isn't bad for just pressing a button.

(NB. Job candidates must be new to us, and not already working for Dental Angels, or on our books)

Recruiting the Perfect Team Member

Recruiting in any capacity is a timely process and potential employers can spend a huge amount of time and resources on trying to find that ‘perfect’ person.  Interestingly enough there are statistics out there  that state that 80% of candidates hired, are taken on board for their skills, yet 80% of those taken on are then fired for their personality.

For any employers looking to hire, I would recommend that you always look at a candidates personality, commitment and drive before you look at anything else. These are things that are inherent in us, yet skills and training can be taught and grown at any stage.  This is also true for the Dental Industry. To be able to work as a Dentist, Nurse or Hygienist we need to learn, to develop our knowledge and take exams. To an extent we are already vetted as to whether we can succeed in our chosen profession. This in mind, we need to look more deeply at a person.

Seek first to understand

Our brief from Dental Angels was to sum up how to compete in dentistry

and do it in less than 400 words. Impossible? Well to give you

everything that you need to know about being competitive in a short

space is going to be challenge, but if being a dental business coach

was easy then everybody would be doing it?

How much to you look forward to treating anxious patients?  What about those with a gag reflex? As a hygienist or Therapist how easy is it to do your best scaling and carrying out pocket debridement on the lingual side of lower molars - in a gagger- Difficult if not impossible !
What about ortho extractions for a 10-12 year old. Will the experience put off the child for years to come?
Would you like your practice to be remarkable – to stand out from the crowd?
Would you like more happy patients thinking your practice is wonderful and recommending more people to you?
Would you like to reduce your own stress as well as that of that of these difficult patients?
Would you like to add a new and innovative service to your practice?

Dental Angels is proud to announce our new referral scheme for clients. We have partnered up with Red Letter Days to be able to give you something back for referring us to your colleagues and friends.

By referring our services to a new client, we will now be rewarding you with a £50 Red Letter Day voucher.

Kevin Rose has just launched a new website "Azimuth dental"  Read the press release below to find out all about it:

Dental coaching business Azimuth Dental launched their non clinical website for dentist’s www.azimuthdental.com on 14th September 2009. The new website has been designed as a space for dentists to work “on their business”  rather than just “in it” with the helpful support of like minded dentists and the business coaching team at Azimuth Dental.*

Last month's event entitled "Dentistry's Future" was way more popular than we had expected.  Whether everyone was attracted by the CPD points on offer, the chance to learn more about how to make money in these challenging times, or just the wine and cheese, we don't know.  It turned out the room we had rented in Poland street was way too small for the numbers interested, so sorry to all of you who we couldn't fit in.

Laura Horton did a great job of speaking on the subject of "dentistry's future" and made it an interesting an informative evening.  It was great to catch up with everyone after the talk and enjoy a few glasses of wine. The hard core ended up making a late night of it, but if you want to hear more about that, you'll have to entend the next event.

We will be running more similar events in the future, so if you are interested in talking, or know someone who might be let us know.  If there are any subjects you would like to see covered, or any suggestions for future events just let us know.

Every few months at Dental Angels we like to hold an event of some kind.  Many of you will have been to the Practice Managers social events and talks, so we decided to invite some dentists along too.  At each event we invite someone to come along and give a short talk about an aspect of the dental industry.  This months talk will be given by practice consultant, Laura Horton and is entitled "Dentistry's Future".  The event will be held on 30th July at 54 Poland Street in Soho.  The event will be a good place to socialise with others in the dental field and will also count towards CPD.

The summer is always a busy time in dental recruitment.  Most dental staff take off a couple of weeks between June and August leaving many practices short staffed.  There is a huge amount of temp work available, but many full-time temps take their holiday at this time.

An answer to this short staffing issue could be to employ a dental undergraduate for the summer.  Students who are in university training to be a dentist are keen to do any kind of work, in order get a bit of real life experience in a dental practice, and they have student loans to pay off after all.

Students offer a good deal for the practice.   They can work as reception staff or as a trainee dental nurse.  They have in depth knowledge of dentistry, they are usually well spoken, well educated and have a good telephone manner - all essential qualities for dental reception staff.

There is a large pool of talent that seems to be going to waste here, as dental university students trudge back to their home towns to work in the local Tesco, rather than stay in London getting experience in the field they have actually chosen to work.  Who knows, by employing at university temp over the summer you could be starting a good working relationship that will continue once they have left college and start to work full time as a dentist.

Some of the smarter practices around the capital seem to be employing a "treatment coordinator" among their dental staff. I had first thought that this was just a new name for an old job - in the way that secretaries are now called PAs - and bin men are in "waste disposal."  However, this is not the case with a treatment coordinator, it is an entirely new role guiding the client through the entire treatment process.

The Clinical Technician is qualified to carry out removable prosthetics Gdc Handbook.  Complete complete dentures are the main stay of work and Rpds require a health certificate ie periodonta assessment from a appropriately qualified person.  We can work in stand alone capacity or in a practice with a Gdp or Specialist.