Permanent full-time and part-time opportunities available to play a vital role in providing safe, equitable and sustainable oral health services to eligible patients across Metro North Health, helping improve health outcomes for children, families and communities.

Job details

About the role

As an Oral Health Therapist with Metro North Oral Health Services, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred oral health care to eligible Queensland Health patients across community and hospital-based settings. Working within a multidisciplinary team of Dentists, Oral Health Therapists, Dental Therapists and Clinical Assistants, you will provide preventative, diagnostic and therapeutic oral health services that improve the wellbeing of children, young people and the broader community.

About you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health's values:

• Deliver quality clinical services across a variety of caseloads in a community or hospital setting in accordance with prescribed professional and ethical standards.
• As experience builds, apply increasingly independent clinical judgement and problem-solving skills to more complex clinical decision making and matters beyond routine practice, with clinical practice supervision or professional guidance decreasing commensurate with level of clinical experience.
• Work cooperatively and effectively within SDS and with patients/clients.
• Actively participate in the clinical environment to ensure that oral health services are integrated, efficient and equitable for the community serviced.
• Actively participate in the identification, development, and implementation of quality improvement activities for the delivery of oral health services within the local service area.

Benefits when working for Metro North Allied Health

• Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
• Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of 12.75% and access to generous salary packaging
• Additional entitlements for employees (casual employees excluded) may include sick leave, carer's leave, long service leave, paid parental leave, leave without pay to travel, professional development allowance and leave
• 5% annual leave loading with up to 27.5% for shift workers
• Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
• Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance

Metro North Health offers a dynamic and progressive environment at the forefront of healthcare, research, and education. With a strong commitment to inclusion, flexibility, and professional development, we provide meaningful opportunities in a workplace that puts people first. You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro North here: https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged and welcomed.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

Further information

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

Documents

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

• Application Support (PDF)
  
  Benefits for working with MN (PDF)
  
  Role Description - COH687196 (PDF)