Start Your Career in Oral Health with Metro South Health!

Launch your career with Metro South Health as a New Graduate Oral Health Therapist! Join a supportive team, gain hands-on experience across a range of clinical rotations and help improve oral health outcomes for our community. This is a temporary full-time opportunity for up to 12 months, offering valuable clinical development and professional growth.

Job details

Your new role:

Start your career in a supportive environment where you can build your clinical skills and make a meaningful difference to the oral health of our community. As a New Graduate Oral Health Therapist with Metro South Oral Health, you'll work alongside experienced professionals to deliver quality, evidence-based care and promote better oral health outcomes.

In this role, you will:

• Deliver oral health therapy and dental hygiene services to eligible clients under the guidance of experienced clinicians.
• Gain valuable experience through a variety of clinical rotations across Metro South Oral Health facilities.
• Support community oral health promotion through education and engagement with clients and stakeholders.
• Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to provide patient-centred care and contribute to service improvement.

About you:

You're a motivated and compassionate new graduate who is eager to develop your clinical skills and deliver quality oral health care. You value teamwork, communicate effectively and are committed to providing respectful, evidence-based care to people from diverse backgrounds.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate:

• The ability to deliver quality oral health therapy services in accordance with professional and ethical standards.
• A willingness to develop your clinical judgement and problem-solving skills with support from experienced clinicians.
• Effective communication and teamwork skills, with the ability to build positive relationships with clients, families and health professionals.
• A commitment to evidence-based practice, continuous learning and quality improvement.

Eligibility requirements

• Completed an Oral Health Therapy qualification between January 2026 and January 2027.
• Eligible for AHPRA registration and registered with the Dental Board of Australia before commencing.
• Hold the required Class C motor vehicle licence endorsement and be able to travel across Metro South Oral Health facilities.
• Meet Queensland Health's mandatory vaccination requirements.

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 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)
  
  MS11695445 Role Description (PDF)