Dental Practice FAQs

Booking temporary dental cover with S4S Locum Team is straightforward. You can request a locum through our online booking form, or contact our team by phone, WhatsApp or email.

A member of our Area Development team will confirm what your practice needs, check availability and work to find a suitable Locum Dental Nurse or Hygienist for your booking. Once your locum is confirmed, we can also provide the relevant compliance documentation quickly and securely.

Our phone, WhatsApp and email are monitored from 6.30am to 10pm, including weekends, so whether you need planned cover or last-minute staffing support, our team is available when you need us.

Call or WhatsApp 0114 478 5870 or email hello@s4steam.com

S4S Locum Team provides Locum Dental Nurses and Hygienists across Yorkshire, the Midlands, North West and North East, with a strong presence in cities including Sheffield, Leeds, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Nottingham, Leicester and Newcastle upon Tyne.

Our network is continually expanding, so if your practice is outside these areas, still get in touch — we may already have suitable locum professionals working nearby or be able to support you.

Every Locum Dental Nurse and Hygienist joining S4S Locum Team goes through a thorough compliance and onboarding process before being introduced to our dental practice clients.

Our checks include GDC registration, Enhanced DBS, indemnity insurance, Hepatitis B evidence, core CPD, qualifications, two written references and a certified biometric Right to Work check.

Our compliance team checks and validates the required documentation before a locum is approved to work, and we continue to monitor time-sensitive documents so that records remain up to date.

Once a booking is confirmed, we can provide the relevant compliance documentation quickly and securely, helping your practice spend less time chasing paperwork and more time focusing on patient care.

Yes. S4S Locum Team has experienced Locum Dental Nurses with specialist skills and experience in areas including Orthodontics, Sedation, Implants and Oral Surgery, helping practices keep specialist clinics running when permanent team members are unavailable.

Many of our Locum Dental Nurses also hold additional qualifications and skills such as Dental Radiography and Impression Taking.

We get to know the experience, qualifications and strengths of the nurses in our team and use that knowledge when matching them to bookings. So where a practice has a particular clinical requirement, we can work to find a locum who is suited to that environment rather than simply filling the shift.

We also continue to invest in the development of our locum team, including training in areas such as digital scanning and iTero, helping broaden the specialist support we can offer practices.

Specialist cover will always depend on location and availability, so if you have a particular requirement, let us know when you book and we’ll work with you to find the right person.

Registering your dental practice with S4S Locum Team is quick, straightforward and free of charge.

If you’re looking to use us for the first time, simply get in touch or request a locum. We’ll send you our short New Practice Questionnaire, which gives us the key information we need about your practice, including contact details, invoicing information, dental software and parking arrangements.

You’ll also receive our current Price List, Cancellation Policy and Client Terms of Business, so everything is clear from the outset.

Once the questionnaire is completed, we can set your practice up with S4S Locum Team and start supporting you with future Locum Dental Nurse and Hygienist bookings.

From there, our Area Development team will get to know your practice through the relationship we build with you — helping us understand your team, how you like to work and what matters when finding the right locum for your bookings.

For our current Locum Dental Nurse and Hygienist rates, simply contact S4S Locum Team by phone, email or WhatsApp and we’ll send you our clear and straightforward price list.

We believe practices should know exactly what they are paying for, so our pricing is transparent and easy to understand from the outset.

Our aim isn’t simply to be the cheapest dental staffing agency. We focus on providing reliable, compliant locum professionals, responsive support and a service that gives practices genuine value for money.

Call or WhatsApp 0114 478 5870 or email hello@s4steam.com for our current rates.

No. S4S Locum Team does not add administration fees or Locum Dental Nurse travel costs to our standard booking rates.

The hourly rates shown on our price list are designed to be clear and straightforward, so practices can understand what their locum cover will cost without hidden booking or travel charges being added afterwards.

We believe transparency matters when building long-term relationships with dental practices, so our rates, payment terms and cancellation policy are made clear from the outset.

S4S Locum Team offers 30-day payment terms to our dental practice clients.

We issue invoices weekly for locum work completed during the previous week, and provide a monthly statement on the first working day of each month, making it easier for your practice to keep track of invoices and payments.

Invoices can be paid by BACS, debit or credit card through PayPal, giving your accounts team a choice of convenient payment methods.

If you ever have a question about an invoice or your account, our dedicated Finance Manager, Andy is available to help.

S4S Locum Team is built around the belief that temporary staffing works best as a partnership, not simply a transaction to fill an empty shift.

Dedicated support: Your Area Development Manager gets to know your practice, your team and how you like to work, helping us provide more consistent and informed support over time.

Locums we know: We take the time to get to know the Dental Nurses and Hygienists who work with us — their experience, strengths, preferences and feedback — so we can make better-informed matches wherever possible.

Robust compliance: Every locum completes our thorough onboarding and compliance process before being approved to work, with documentation checked and monitored by our team.

Responsive when you need us: Our phone, WhatsApp and email are monitored from 6.30am to 10pm, including weekends, giving practices access to real people when staffing pressures arise.

Technology that supports the relationship: Our Client Shift Manager portal gives practices visibility of upcoming bookings, booked locums, compliance documentation and electronic timesheets, while our team remains on hand whenever you need personal support.

Underpinning all of this is the way we choose to work: honestly, ethically and with a long-term view of the relationships we build with both practices and locum professionals.

Yes. S4S Locum Team works with multi-site dental groups and Dental Service Organisations (DSOs), as well as independent practices, providing Locum Dental Nurse and Hygienist cover across multiple locations.

We already support many of the UK’s major dental groups and are included on their Preferred Supplier Lists (PSLs), with S4S Locum Team acting as a first-choice staffing supplier for some group partnerships.

We can work with your organisation to understand how different practices operate, the areas where you need the most support and any agreed booking, compliance or reporting requirements.

Our Area Development team can coordinate support across regions, while our Client Shift Manager portal gives practices visibility of bookings, booked locums, compliance documentation and electronic timesheets.

Whether we’re supporting one practice or a large group, our approach remains the same: build a genuine staffing partnership, get to know the organisation properly and provide consistent, responsive support across your practices.

If a booked Locum Dental Nurse or Hygienist becomes unavailable, S4S Locum Team will act quickly to try to find suitable replacement cover.

We’ll contact your practice as soon as we’re aware of the change, explain the situation clearly and use our available locum network to look for another appropriately experienced and compliant professional.

We can’t promise that replacement cover will always be available, particularly at very short notice, but you won’t be left wondering what is happening. Our team will keep you updated and do everything reasonably possible to support your practice.

It’s part of the way we work: responsive communication, honest updates and practical support when plans change.