Dental Course Technician inSlough inSlough PUBLISHED 11 OCT 2024

Job Overview


The Dental Course Technician (DCT) is responsible to the Medical Education Manager (MEM). The DCT will assist the MEM, SLME (Strategic Lead Medical Education) & MEC (Medical Education Co-ordinator) to develop, manage and monitor Dental training programmes and Inductions. The DCT will apply national polices and current legislation relating Dental training.

Main duties of the job

• 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 setup kit and audiovisual equipment.
• Dental Technician is solely responsible for the management and operation of the Dental Suite. Dental trainees attend here approximately for 25-30 sessions per academic year.
• Dental Technician organises the sessions, orders in supplies in conjunction with Dental School, deals with animal tissue disposal and H & S requirements when the trainees practice on animals’ jaws.
• DT maintains the dental equipment and phantom heads and arranges their regular technical service. DT provides dental technician support to all dental trainees attending the trust Dental Skills lab.
• Organising the storage and inventory.
• Set up dental equipment and instruments as per course requirements before sessions. Ensure all equipment is functioning correctly and is ready for use.
• Occasionally adjust workdays to accommodate course schedules
  
  

Working for our organisation


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 three core 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.


Detailed Job Description And Main 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 criteria

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

Qualifications Knowledge


Essential criteria

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

Communication and People Skills

Essential criteria

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

Specialist Knowledge/ Skills


Essential criteria

• Flexibility approach to working hours
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. 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 are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

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 three core 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, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .

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