Support our frontline staff to deliver exceptional healthcare.

Be part of a professional, collaborative, and supportive team of clinicians providing high quality care for our community to better lives through better health!

Job details

Your new role:

As a Senior Dental Assistant, you will play a crucial leadership role within our dental teams, ensuring the delivery of high-quality general and specialist oral health care to our diverse patient community. This role combines clinical expertise with operational management and staff leadership to support the ongoing development and success of dental services across our facilities.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing expert dental assisting services in collaboration with dental specialists, dentists, oral health therapists, and dental therapists, with a focus on patient safety and infection control.
• Leading and managing dental assistant staff, including planning, organizing, and monitoring their work to maintain service quality, staffing levels, and budget compliance.
• Mentoring and developing dental assistants through recruitment, training, and performance support, while collaborating with senior staff to drive service quality and compliance.

About you:

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior Dental Assistant who demonstrates outstanding technical skills, leadership capabilities, and a commitment to patient safety and quality care. 

You will possess:

• Proven expertise in all facets of dental assisting, with a strong knowledge of infection control and workplace health and safety standards.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, capable of handling confidential matters with discretion and professionalism.
• A commitment to upholding policies relating to equal opportunity, anti-discrimination, and quality service standards within a diverse healthcare setting.
• A current Dental Assisting Certificate and proof of relevant qualifications and registrations.

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What we can offer you:

• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the 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 relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Community and Oral Health Services:

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 Metro South Health:

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.

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Application essentials - things you need to know (PDF, 691KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF, 978KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  MS09655611 Role Description (PDF, 381KB)
  Role Description