That’s according to Emma Anastasi, managing director at Diamond Dental Staff, a dental recruitment company that specialises in supplying staff to practices throughout the UK.
Emma and her team have seen a higher demand in temporary cover as well as a key change in the roles sought by dental nurses – a shift in employment expectations she believes is caused by COVID-19.
She said: ‘Some team members are having to shield, whilst others are having to adapt to what childcare support there is available to them.
‘There is also an emerging issue regarding the management of unused annual leave. Some practices may have requested their employees take some of their annual leave during the furlough period. However, for the large majority that did not request this, annual leave is still owed and, in most circumstances, needs to be used before the end of the year.
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