Dental Assistant

**Full-time & part-time on offer - great work/life balance**:

- **Generous remuneration + employee & family benefits**:

- **Open to anyone with experience in a healthcare setting**

**About the employer**

Our client, located in North Sydney, is a long-standing member of the dental services industry. Operating a busy dental practice, offering their patients a superior approach to dental care they tailor their services offered to their extremely loyal and community-minded client base.

Having been in practice for over 25 years, our client specialises in providing customised health programs for their individual patients’ needs. With an exceptional approach to patient healthcare, high quality healthcare is offered at all times.

**About the role**

Due to business expansion, our client is seeking a Dental Assistant to join their team, supporting the Principal practitioner in the daily activities of the practice. This role is diverse and varied, where you will join a team using your learned skills and expertise to hit the ground running with a common-sense approach to completing key tasks.

Your calm, conducive nature and methodical approach allows you to seamlessly complete the required practice tasks in a professional and emotionally steady manner; ensuring each client interaction is maintained with the utmost care, TLC and due diligence.

In this full-time role, you will have the opportunity to learn and grow from leaders in the world of dental care in this well-established practice.

**What’s great about this**
- Develop and hone your experience within an established dental practice
- Generous remuneration on offer
- Employee dentistry benefits and family discounts offered to all staff
- Well established and loyal client base

**Duties**

This role is broken into four key areas of duties:

- **General Dental Assistant Tasks**_
- Meet, greet and seat patients
- Ensure aseptic protocols are carried out
- File and maintain patient records accurately
- Set-up and clean-down of treatment area, including the preparation of instruments
- Completing TLC tasks for patients, such as follow up phone calls
- Processing of radiographs
- **Reception Tasks**_
- Creating and booking of appointments for patients
- Answering the phones and taking messages
- Ensuring messages are correctly relayed in a timely manner
- Processing payments using a POS system and providing receipt of payment to patients
- General reception duties as required
- **Laboratory Tasks**_
- Pouring alginate impressions and trimming models
- Correct storage and labelling of models
- Maintaining a clean and safe laboratory area
- Arranging the delivery of models to outside labs as required
- **Stock Control**_
- Preparation of monthly stock control and compilation lists
- Ensuring stock is rotated with FIFO management
- Ensuring stock is maintained at minimum levels

**About You**

This role is open to a self-starter that is able to demonstrate the ability to work with people from diverse backgrounds, is open minded, enthusiastic and able to support the principal practitioner in delivering a seamless patient experience.
- **Essential**_
- Minimum 18 months demonstrated experience within a professional healthcare setting
- Excellent time management skill
- Methodical and common-sense approach to workflow
- Ability to keep a cool, calm demeanour ensuring a seamless patient experience
- Adept pro-active listening skill
- Demonstrated autonomy and ownership over tasks
- Ability to take, interpret notes and receive dictation
- **Desirable**_
- Demonstrated general dental practice experience
- Certificate III in Dental Assisting
- Ability to see the ‘bigger picture’ in relation to tasks completed
- Current First Aid & CPR certificate
- Experience taking high quality photos with SLR cameras and uploading to software
- Experience using dental software
- Intermediate use of Microsoft packages and basic use of Excel
- Previous laboratory experience, such as pouring models
- Previous experience in orthodontics and retainers

**This position is **_**open to anyone who has previous demonstrated experience working in a healthcare setting. **_

**Whilst significant dental practice experience is preferred, training will be provided for the right person.**
- **To view a full Job Description for this fantastic role, visit the Freedom Recruitment Agency website, under Available Roles**_
- **Submissions for this role close 03-03-2023**_

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time

**Salary**: From $60,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Employee discount

Schedule:

- 10 hour shift

Work Location: One location

Application Deadline: 03/03/2023