Prosthetist

About the role
The Dental Prosthetist is a senior level clinician with both a clinical and education focus to the key role within a multi-disciplinary team.The prosthetist will be a clinical leader with an advanced level of skill, providing specialised clinical advice and services to a number of oral health facilities across the West Moreton area.
Team Focus
- Builds and maintains strong relationships, open communication, and a positive environment within a multidisciplinary team, actively contributing to the learning and development of others.
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of the relevant standards and processes and actively identifies areas for improvement, planning and acting to resolve issues with an awareness of community needs.
- Leadership skills and knowledge to assist in planning, resource management and development of self and others.
- Ability to use clinical information and other technology systems relevant to work area to enhance practice and decision support.
- Demonstrates advanced planning and coordination in the clinical management of patient care, identifying, anticipating, and prioritising needs and working with the interdisciplinary team to achieve patient and unit goals within required timeframes.
- Builds good rapport with patients and effectively prioritises and plans own time to deliver a flexible and holistic patient care service within designated timeframes.
- Demonstrates honest, integrity and respect for all patients, carers, and staff.

Continuous Improvement
- Demonstrates a strong understanding of the relevant standards and processes and actively identifies areas for improvement, planning and acting to resolve issues with an awareness of community needs.
- Leadership skills and knowledge to assist in planning, resource management and development of self and others.
- Ability to use clinical information and other technology systems relevant to work area to enhance practice and decision support.

Patient Focus
- Demonstrates advanced planning and coordination in the clinical management of patient care, identifying, anticipating, and prioritising needs and working with the interdisciplinary team to achieve patient and unit goals within required timeframes.
- Builds good rapport with patients and effectively prioritises and plans own time to deliver a flexible and holistic patient care service within designated timeframes.

Work Values
Clinical/Specialist/Technical Knowledge
- Demonstrated advanced level of knowledge, expertise, and skills in complex contemporary Dental Prosthetic clinical practice standards.
- Demonstrated ability to provide clinical advice and consultation on complex clinical matters across multiple facilities for Dental Prosthetic services.
- High level knowledge of legislation, standards, policies, and procedures relevant to contemporary dental practice.
- Demonstrated ability to provide active leadership in the development of service improvement initiatives and provide advanced training and guidance to multi-disciplinary teams looking to build clinical specialties.
- Act as a resource for expert clinical care needs conducting formal and informal education for clinical staff, patients, and their families.
- Proactively manages own continuous learning and development.

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To apply
Further information regarding this role please download and read the attached Role Description and Information Packages. You will need to submit your Cover Letter, CV or Resume including the names and contact details of two referees and a short response (maximum 1-2 pages) on how your experience, abilities, knowledge and personal qualities are relevant to the role.