Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Dental Skills Lab Technician

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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.

Details

Date posted

29 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,857 to £30,570 a year per annum pro rata incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

151-SR200

Job locations

John Lister Postgraduate Centre, Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


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.

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

  • Multi- tasking environment in a demand led environment. Involved with sensitive and confidential meetings.

Qualifications Knowledge

Essential

  • GCSE minimum qualifications or equivalent
  • Knowledge of Dental and Equipments

Communication and People Skills

Essential

  • Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
  • Effective team player

Specialist Knowledge/ Skills:

Essential

  • Flexibility approach to working hours
Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Multi- tasking environment in a demand led environment. Involved with sensitive and confidential meetings.

Qualifications Knowledge

Essential

  • GCSE minimum qualifications or equivalent
  • Knowledge of Dental and Equipments

Communication and People Skills

Essential

  • Excellent oral, written and presentation skills
  • Effective team player

Specialist Knowledge/ Skills:

Essential

  • Flexibility approach to working hours

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Lister Postgraduate Centre, Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Lister Postgraduate Centre, Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Medical & Dental Education Manager

Rupal Patel

rupal.patel@nhs.net

03006154383

Details

Date posted

29 August 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,857 to £30,570 a year per annum pro rata incl HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

151-SR200

Job locations

John Lister Postgraduate Centre, Wexham Park Hospital

Wexham Street

Slough

SL2 4HL


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