Dental Assistant

Experience life as a civilian Dental Assistant on a secure military base
- Rewarding opportunity to contribute to positive health outcomes for Defence Force staff
- Ongoing part time role - Tuesday, Thursday and Friday

**About Us**

**About the Role**

You will be responsible for providing chair-side assistance to the Dentist/Dental Specialist/Hygienist in the delivery of dental services to patients. You will also assist with administrative tasks such as entering/updating patient records as well as other duties as required by the Dentist including promotion of oral health to patients and maintaining optimal hygiene of the surgery. This is an ongoing part time position, availability is essential for Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

- The highest levels of personal integrity and ethical behaviour.
- Certificate III in Dental Assisting or nationally recognised equivalent qualification.
- Minimum of 2 years (full time equivalent) experience within the last 5 years.
- Recent participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities.
- Current First Aid (HLTAID011) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (HLTAID009) certification.
- Ability to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support the delivery of safe, efficient and high-quality care to patients within a dental surgery.

**About the Edinburgh Health Centre**

Edinburgh Health Centre is located 25km North of Adelaide, at RAAF Base Edinburgh. This super-base houses 3500 personnel from the Australian Army and RAAF, and is home to the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine, currently staffed by uniformed and civilian medical staff. The Health Centre consists of a 22-bed inpatient facility, staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, along with general medical, dental, physiotherapy, mental health, pharmaceutical, and minor surgical services. The Standard Operating hours of the centre are 0730-1530, Monday-Friday.

**About You**

You have a professional and friendly manner and enjoy interacting with patients and assisting the dental team with a range of support activities. Ensuring compliance with all relevant standards and procedures, you take pride in contributing to the cleanliness and effectiveness of a dental surgery environment and assisting your team wherever possible. You are a respectful and professional person who demonstrates exceptional moral values in everything you do. You are passionate about providing dental support services and working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to support delivery of the highest standard of care to patients.

**Rewards & Benefits**
- Be part of an amazing culture, based on the values of trust, care, innovation and pride
- Gain access to Global Employee Networks that embrace diversity and inclusion
- ‘Start with a job and stay for a career’ with extensive employment and growth opportunities across Serco’s many contracts
- Meaningful work supporting defence personnel
- Referral Programs
- Paid annual and personal leave
- Paid CPD leave for permanent employees
- Paid volunteer leave and leave for reservists
- Provision of uniform
- Variety of lifestyle discounts through the Serco Benefits program including discounts with Apple, Qantas, Hoyts Cinemas and more
- Plus, ongoing 24/7 immediate mental health and counselling support via our Employee Assistant Program (EAP)
- Join a dedicated team of collaborative and supportive health professionals

**Referrals**

Refer a friend or colleague and be rewarded

Refer a Healthcare Professional to join Serco’s Australian Defence Force Health Services Team and receive a $500 Prezzee Voucher if they are successful

**Join Us**

**Please note your resume **must** include - start and finish dates for each role, along with employment type (e.g. casual, part-time, full-time) and hours worked per week.**

You must also be an Australian Citizen in order to obtain the required Baseline Security Clearance for this role.

**Serco and Proud**

At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, but everyone also has an important role to play from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 60,000+ globally and 16,000+ in Asia Pacific responsible for delivering essential public services in areas including defence, justice, immigration, healthcare, facilities management and citizen services.
- Serco’s values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride underpin everything we do. We are curious, creative and collaborative. Our people matter and make a difference every day._

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