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**Date**:5 Mar 2024

**Location**: 50 Flemington Rd, AU

**Company**:theroyalch

**The Hospital**:
The Royal Children’s Hospital’s (RCH) Vision is “A world where all kids thrive”.

RCH is a cornerstone member of the Melbourne Children’s Campus, partnering with Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, The University of Melbourne Department of Pediatrics and The Royal Children’s Hospital Foundation.

RCH has cared for the children and young people of Victoria for more than 150 years since it was founded in 1870. A full range of paediatric and adolescent health services are provided plus tertiary and quaternary care for the most critically ill and medically complex patients in Victoria, Tasmania, southern NSW and other states around Australia and overseas. The Hospital has more than 6,000 staff, a budget of $850M, 12 wards and 350 beds. Annually, the RCH has 300,000+ Specialist Clinic appointments, 90,000+ Emergency Department presentations and 20,000 elective surgeries.

The RCH is committed to the Child Safe Standards.

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact.

For further Information on RCH is available here.

**The Role**:
This is an ongoing Part Time position (0.8 FTE) - with the posibility to pick up additional hours within the Dentistry deprtment. We are looking for a Dental assistant to join our supportive and professional multidisciplinary specialist team. This is a great opportunity to gain new skills working with a team of specialists and experienced Dental Assistants. We recognise that our Dental Assistants are critical to the delivery of high
- quality, efficient, and effective clinical care.

**What you'll achieve**:

- Actively contribute to the provision of high quality clinical care
- Provide clinical chair side support and assist our specialists in an outpatient clinic
- See emergency patients as required and assist in theatre as rostered
- Prepare, maintain and manage the clinical environment, including equipment, materials, and instrument to ensure efficient and enhanced treatment and patient care

**Your skills and experience**:

- 2+ years of experience working chair-side assisting would be desirable
- Certificate III in Dental Assisting or Certificate in Dental Nursing
- Well -developed communication skills
- Ability to work autonomously and take initiative

If this sounds like you, click **here** **to view the position description.

**The Department**:
Why work with us? Our patients are at the heart of what we do. We strive to positively impact our communities and the wellbeing of our employees. You will be joining a supportive, kind, caring, and ethical culture where you will be welcomed by multi-specialty teams passionate about the health and wellbeing of our patients, from prevention through to specialist dental care. We strive to continually learn togerther and build on each other’s areas of expertise. We are values driven, offering careers with meaning and environments that are flexible, evolving, creative, and connected.

**What we offer**:

- Salary Packaging - Increase your take home pay
- Parkville location and close to public transport
- Discounted on-site car parking

**Other requirements**:

- Current National Criminal Record Check, or willing to obtain
- Valid Working with Children Check
- Compliance with RCHs “Staff Immunisation - Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases” procedure

**Application process**:
**Why work at the RCH?**

RCH enjoys high employee engagement and is committed to staff safety and a positive culture through enactment of our Compact. We offer the opportunity to work in world-class facilities, surrounded by Royal Park and only a short tram trip from the heart of Melbourne city.

We also offer discounted staff parking, salary packaging, and an award-winning health and wellbeing program.

It is a requirement of your employment that you be fully vaccinated against Covid-19, and Influenza annually for Category A and B roles, in compliance with any public health orders in place at the relevant time, unless you have a medical exception in line with those public health orders, which has been accepted by The Royal Children’s Hospital. Applicants will be required to provide their Australian Government Immunisation History Statement, it is a requirement of the RCH to collect, record and hold vaccination information.

It is also a requirement of your employment that you comply with any direction given by The Royal Children’s Hospital that you be vaccinated against, or prove immunity to, any other disease, unless you have a relevant exemption