The main purpose of this role is to assist with effective administration of the dental laboratory technical service and contribute to simple and defined technical steps such as creating plaster casts, scanning impressions, and entering laboratory work on a database. The role holder will also be involved in receiving and sending items to external laboratories, and distribution of laboratory to work to dental students.
The University of Bristol Dental School opened in September 2023, delivering dental care to the local community and delivering education and training to dental students, nurses, hygienists and therapists.
This is a full-time role, 35 hours per week, working flexibly within the opening hours of the laboratory, which will be between 8am and 5pm, ensuring that the service is maintained.
What will you be doing?
Working in a bespoke dental laboratory complex, within the Dental School, you will be responsible for the dental patient cases that are generated from the large dental training clinics. The work will involve booking in cases, and preparing them for construction, sending and receiving cases and monitoring the storage in the dental laboratory reception, answering queries from external stakeholders, as well as from the dental students and other laboratory users.
Additionally, you will be working in the dental laboratory, producing plaster dental models from impressions taken on the dental clinic, as well as scanning models and impressions with the latest CADCAM equipment, and providing support to the technical teaching and service team.
You should apply if
- You have excellent organisational skills, with the ability to deal with and prioritise a range of ongoing tasks at the same time, and to be able to cope under pressure
- You enjoy meeting people and can work as part of a team working towards defined objectives, in a culture where everyone is working towards a positive and successful outcome
- you have a commitment to customer care and to providing a quality service
- you have a commitment to maintaining skills, and learning new techniques and procedures
Additional information
Contract type: Open-ended
Work pattern: Full-time
Grade: D
This advert will close at 23:59 UK time on 09/09/2026
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