Senior Dental Technician

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We are seeking an experienced Senior Dental Technician to join us at the Woolloongabba Oral Health Centre.

As an advanced practitioner, you will apply your high-level technical expertise in dental technology to deliver quality, patient-focused oral health services. In this role, you will:

• Design, construct, and maintain fixed and removable full and partial dentures, orthodontic, implant retained, and maxillo-facial appliances of varying complexity.
• Work independently to provide specialised technical services requiring advanced judgement and decision-making.
• Collaborate with clinical practitioners in treatment planning to optimise patient outcomes.
• Provide guidance, mentoring, and support to less experienced technicians, students, and other staff members.

We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Dental Technician who demonstrates leadership, innovation, and a commitment to quality care. To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• A Diploma (or equivalent) qualification in Dental Technology, with post-registration experience in a full-service dental laboratory.
• Advanced technical knowledge and expertise in dental appliance design, construction, and problem-solving across a range of complex cases.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively within a multidisciplinary oral health team and with diverse stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to service improvement, mentoring, and contributing to workforce planning and professional development.
• Whilst not essential, experience in Orthodontics and/or CAD CAM / 3D Printing is highly desirable.

• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role.
• Benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children. We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services. Our services are delivered by multidisciplinary teams of nursing and allied health staff with the skills and experience to treat a full range of health needs.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE. Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care. We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Health Care Provider
• Industries: Hospitals and Health Care

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