Join our dental assisting talent pool across Metro South

Metro South Health is seeking expressions of interest for a Dental Assistant Talent Pool (CA3) within Metro South Oral Health Services. This talent pool will be used to fill casual and temporary full-time or part-time opportunities over the next 12 months across Central Sterilising (CSD) and Chair Side dental assisting roles at various locations across Metro South.

Job details

Your new role:

As a Dental Assistant within Metro South Oral Health Services, you may be engaged in Central Sterilising (CSD) and/or Chair Side duties, supporting dental teams to deliver high-quality general and specialist oral health care. Working as part of a multi-skilled team, you will contribute to safe clinical environments, infection control, equipment reprocessing and patient support across a range of clinical settings.

Key responsibilities include:

• Providing dental assisting support within CSD and/or chair-side environments
• Preparing, cleaning, disinfecting and sterilising reusable dental instruments
• Supporting four-handed dentistry and clinical procedures (chair-side roles)
• Maintaining infection control and work health and safety standards

About you:

You are a skilled and reliable Dental Assistant who enjoys working as part of a team and takes pride in delivering safe, high-quality care. You are adaptable, detail-focused and comfortable working across different clinical settings as required.

You will bring:

• A Dental Assisting Certificate (mandatory)
• Knowledge of infection control, sterilisation and dental assisting standards
• Strong communication and teamwork skills
• Ability to prioritise tasks and work efficiently in busy clinical environments
• Willingness to work across CSD and/or chair-side roles as required
• Current Blue Card (or ability to obtain)

Check out our quick tips and application essentials!

What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• 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
• 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.

About us:

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.

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