Job summary
The Dental Skills Lab Technician is responsible for supporting the educational activities within the dental skills laboratory. This role involves the preparation, maintenance, and organization of the dental lab, ensuring all equipment and materials are ready for use by students and faculty. The technician will also provide technical assistance during training sessions and maintain a clean and safe working environment.
Main duties of the job
To provide both dental and specialist technical support relating to educational technology including phantom head and dental skills resources.
The post holder is required to assist in the effective and efficient delivery of technical and administrative support to the dental Tutors & faculty.
Dental Technician (DT) is also responsible for the set up and safe operation of the Dental Skills lab, Dental equipment and kit and audiovisual equipment.
Dental Technician plays an integral role within the team to identify areas of development. An example of the work DT has done for this include:
1. Organising the storage facilities for all educational kit, for all education teams in the trust.
2. Designing, creating and utilising new 'pulpotomy teeth' used in dental training, which greatly increases the fidelity for trainees..
About us
There's never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country's largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our threecore values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you'll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
1. Multi- tasking environment in a demand led environment. Involved with sensitive and confidential meetings.
Qualifications Knowledge
Essential
2. GCSE minimum qualifications or equivalent
3. Knowledge of Dental and Equipments
Communication and People Skills
Essential
4. Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
5. Effective team player
Specialist Knowledge/ Skills:
Essential
6. Flexibility approach to working hours