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.