Putting the right dental hands in the right place
Locum Hands Ltd is a family-run, UK-wide dental locum agency founded on a simple belief: dental professionals deserve flexible, well-supported work, and practices deserve reliable, fully-vetted cover.
Lizette Hernandez
Owner & Founder, Locum Hands Limited
Locum Hands was founded by Lizette Hernandez, who saw first-hand how stressful and time-consuming finding good dental cover could be — for clinicians and practices alike. She set out to build an agency that does things differently: personal, dependable and genuinely on your side.
Lizette brings a deep understanding of the dental sector and a passion for matching talented professionals with the practices that need them. Her vision is an agency where dental nurses, hygienists, therapists and dentists feel supported to build careers on their own terms, and where practices can rely on compliant, high-quality cover whenever they need it.
As a family-run business, Locum Hands is built on relationships, not transactions. That hands-on, human approach runs through everything we do — and it's why professionals and practices across the UK choose to work with us.
- Deep dental-sector expertise
- A genuinely personal service
- Family-run values, UK-wide reach
- Committed to compliance and care
A family-run agency built by people who know dentistry
Locum Hands began with a frustration shared by professionals and practice managers alike: finding good locum cover was harder than it should be. Clinicians wanted flexibility without the admin headache. Practices wanted reliable, compliant staff without the panic of a last-minute gap.
So we built an agency to fix exactly that. One that treats clinicians as partners rather than line items, that takes compliance seriously, and that picks up the phone when you need it. From a single dental nurse covering a sick day to ongoing clinical support, we focus on getting the match right — every time.
Today, Locum Hands connects dental nurses, hygienists, therapists and dentists with practices across the United Kingdom. We're proud to help professionals build careers on their own terms, and to keep surgeries running so patients get the care they need. New to locum work? Read our guide to finding dental locum work
Our values
People first
Behind every booking is a clinician and a patient. We never lose sight of that.
Compliance always
Rigorous vetting isn't optional — it's the foundation of safe, professional cover.
Genuinely UK-wide
Real reach and local knowledge across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Partnership, not transactions
We build lasting relationships with professionals and practices alike.
“Our mission is simple: make dental locum work effortless for professionals and dependable for practices — across the whole of the UK.”
Lizette Hernandez, Owner & Founder
Let's work together
Whether you're looking for locum work or need to cover your rota, we'd love to help.