Make a Difference Every Day as a Dental Assistant

Support high-quality dental care through chair-side assistance, infection control, and patient support across Metro South Health facilities.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Dental Assistant with Metro South Health, you will play a vital role in supporting safe, high-quality dental care for patients of all ages. You'll work closely with dentists and the broader oral health team to prepare equipment, provide four-handed dentistry, assist with patient comfort, and maintain a high standard of infection control and surgery readiness.

In this role, you will:

• Prepare instruments, equipment, and materials for a variety of dental procedures
• Assist in preventing, identifying, and managing medical emergencies
• Monitor equipment, steriliser performance, and quality assurance processes
• Work across multiple Metro South Health facilities as required

The Process 

This Expression of Interest collects a variety of information that will help identify potentially suitable applicants for future casual employment opportunities. If deemed suitable your details will remain in the Talent Pool for a period of 12 months and should there be an employment opportunity you will be contacted to discuss the opportunity further. Additional selection processes (interview, reference checks and pre-employment checks) to further assess suitability for appointment to a specific position may be required. 

Please note: 

• As part of the talent pool, you may be offered a casual permanent or temporary employment opportunities that become available based on the order of merit.
• A pool will generally continue for a 12-month period.
• If you are placed in the talent pool, you may be offered a position within the relevant time period, however your appointment to a position is not guaranteed.
• By submitting an Expression of Interest, you will not automatically be considered for advertised vacancies. If you wish to be considered for a specific advertised vacancy at Metro South Health, please submit your application for the relevant vacancy via the Smart Jobs website and follow the process outlined for that vacancy.

About you:

You are an organised, proactive, and team-focused dental assistant who takes pride in delivering excellent patient care. You communicate well, work calmly under pressure, and follow clinical guidelines with accuracy and professionalism. 

You will bring:

• Experience in all aspects of dental assisting across diverse patient groups
• Ability to prioritise tasks and organise workload efficiently
• Understanding of medico-legal responsibilities and ethical practice
• Working with Children Blue Card (required)

Check out our quick tips and application essentials

What we can offer you:

• 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
• 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.

About us:

Metro South Oral Health is the largest public provider in the State. It delivers a comprehensive range of services to an eligible adult population and children and adolescents from four (4) years of age until the completion of Year 10 in secondary school.

The Service provides family centred and paediatric primary oral health care and a range of secondary and specialist care from 17 different facilities.

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 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)
  
  MSTP669741_Chair Side (PDF)
  
  MSTP669741_CSD (PDF)
  
  We are MSH - five reasons why you should join us (PDF)