Band 6 Senior Crown and Bridge Dental Technician

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Birmingham is looking for a skilled dental technician to join their team. The role involves producing complex restorations, training students, and ensuring high-quality patient care. Candidates should have relevant dental qualifications and experience in prosthodontics, along with strong communication and time management skills. The position offers an opportunity to work closely with clinical teams and students in an integrated care setting.

Qualifications

• Experience with complex prosthodontics and implant supported restorations.
• Familiarity with porcelain, composite materials, and dental alloys.
• Ability to supervise and train lower-grade staff and students.

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and prioritise daily workload.
• Supervise and train laboratory staff and students.
• Produce precision and complex restorations and appliances.

Skills

Good communication

Time management

Proficient in dental materials

Shade matching

Education

Relevant dental qualifications

Tools

Exocad

3shape

Microsoft Access

Job description

Overview

A Vacancy at Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. The crown and bridge section of the Production Laboratory deal with complex cases including implant retained medical devices as well as full mouth reconstructions as well as less complex work. We support a range of clinical colleagues and work closely with them regarding the patient workflow, as we are on site it gives us the great opportunity to be able liaise with our patients and be part of their journey when needed, to offer help and advice. We are also a key part in our dental students learning as we help to support them during their training. Good communication is key and an all around knowledge of crown and bridge work is needed as well as being good at time management of your workload, as we complete our work from start to finish, so you will be responsible for the job all the way through. All of our metal work is completed on cadcam now using Exocad and 3shape. We are a large team and between all 3 sections at peak time, complete between 2,500 and 3,500 units of work per month.

Responsibilities

Plan, coordinate and prioritise daily personal workload to meet laboratory deadlines on a daily basis to meet service requirements.

To contribute to the supervision and training of the technical work of lower grade laboratory staff and students.

The post holder is responsible for achieving a consistently high standard in the production of precision and highly complex fixed prosthodontics osseo-integrated implant supported structures and restorations including both single and multi-unit metal bonded to ceramic, all ceramic restorations using semi and fully adjustable articulators.

The post holder is responsible for the planning, design and construction of simple, hybrid, complex and evolutionary restorative appliances, in conjunction with Consultants and Senior Clinical Staff.

Plan, design and construct diagnostic wax-ups for treatment planning and support the clinician in evaluating patient’s expectations and provide them with detailed information by communication with staff. Evaluate the quality, ensuring the dental prescription and items supplied from the clinic area are of sufficient quality to proceed with the construction of restorations.

The post holder is responsible for discussing with and advising Undergraduate Students on matters of techniques, restoration design and material selection.

Clinically assist and advise Consultants, Senior and Junior Clinical Staff and Undergraduate Students with shade matching with regards to patient expectations.

Construct Pro-scan radiographic stents and implant placement guides.

Plan, designs and constructs diagnostic wax-ups, including occlusal splints, both hard and soft for treatment planning. TMJ analysis and occlusal rehabilitation cases.

To be proficient in the production in the above mentioned the post holder will need to be familiar with the use of porcelain, composite materials, precious and non-precious cast dental alloys including the production of precision working models.

Assist in the routine day-to-day running of the laboratory and assist Undergraduate students, Clinical and nursing staff with enquiries and the collection of completed work using the laboratory dedicated Microsoft Access computer system.

About BCHC

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

Key Relationships

• Production Laboratory Manager
• Deputy Production Laboratory Manager
• Group Clinical Manager
• Group Manager
• Dental Laboratory administrator
• Consultants
• Registrars
• Dental Core Trainees, 1, 2, 3
• Undergraduate Dental students
• Dental Nurses
• Dental Patients

This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Nov 2025.