About the Role: As a Dental Assistant, you will play a crucial role in ensuring our patients receive the highest quality care. You will provide clinical assistance to our dentists, maintain a clean and safe environment, and support the efficient running of our dental centre. Your responsibilities will include:
Patient Flow: Prepare for patient appointments, coordinate with the dentist, and liaise with reception for scheduling and payments.
Chair Side Assisting: Set up instruments and materials, assist with clinical procedures, perform data entry, and develop radiographs.
Surgery Organisation: Maintain infection control, clean and maintain the surgery, manage waste, and assist other Dental Assistants as needed.
Sterile Supply Unit: Clean and prepare handpieces for sterilisation, process instruments, maintain stock levels, and report any fraudulent activity.
Work Health and Safety (WHS): Comply with WHS policies, report hazardous conditions, and participate in health and safety activities.
Skills and Qualifications:
Essential: Dental knowledge and experience, neat appearance, good personal hygiene, confidentiality, initiative, and basic computer skills.
Desirable: Experience in reception duties, qualifications in radiography, sterilising, first aid, and a Certificate III in dental assisting.
If you are a team player with a passion for dental care and a commitment to providing excellent patient service, we would love to hear from you.
About HCF
At HCF, our purpose is to bring our human touch to healthcare. Since 1932 we’ve been putting our members and their health first. As Australia’s largest not-for-profit health fund, we cover over 1.9 million members with health, life, travel and pet insurance and our vision is to make healthcare understandable, affordable, high quality and member centric.
We want to be true health partners to our members, easily guiding the healthcare choices that are right for them. At HCF, our values are the way we do things and create the necessary culture to help us realise our purpose and deliver our Strategy. Living our values in action we step forward, walk in their shoes, stay human, make it better and get there together.
Next steps
If you require any adjustments to assist you in making your application or during the recruitment or onboarding process, please reach out to Talent Acquisition – peopleservices@hcf.com.au to discuss.
We encourage applicants to submit their applications at their earliest convenience, as at HCF, we review applications as they are submitted, and may have filled the role prior to the job closing date.