Lead Quality, Compliance, and Innovation in Dental Assistant Practice at Metro South Oral Health
Provide expert, high-level advice and assistance to management and oral health staff, ensuring best practice in dental assistant roles across the service.
Job details Position status Permanent
Position type Full-time
Occupational group Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support
Classification CA5
Workplace Location Brisbane - South
Job ad reference QLD/MS10662910
Closing date 10-Oct-2025
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Salary Other
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Contact person Nithya Joy Cherukara
Contact details 07 3317 1480
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Your new Role:
The Dental Assistant Policy and Practice Advisor provides expert leadership, high-level policy advice, and operational support to management and oral health staff within the Metro South Oral Health Service. This role ensures adherence to infection control standards, compliance with local, state, and national regulations, and drives continuous quality improvement initiatives. Collaborating with key stakeholders, the Advisor oversees workforce planning, training, and risk management to maintain a skilled, motivated dental assistant team. They act as an advocate for dental assistants, support resource and supply management, and contribute to strategic planning and organizational objectives, fostering safe, efficient, and client-focused oral health care delivery.
About You:
As a Principal Dental Assistant, you will embody Metro South Health's values and bring a genuine passion to join and contribute to our team's growth through your expertise in allied health clinical services. You will:
- Provide expert, high-level advice and guidance to management and oral health staff to ensure best practice in dental assistant roles across the service.
- Lead continuous quality improvement and change management initiatives to standardize practices and enhance client care outcomes.
- Exhibit ethical leadership and strong communication skills to support organizational goals and foster a collaborative work environment.
- Participate actively in audits, risk assessments, and workplace safety processes to uphold regulatory compliance and manage risks effectively.
- A Blue Card will be required.
What we can offer you:
- We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
- We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
- We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
- You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous
and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
Community and Oral Health Services:
Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.
We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.
Our services are delivered by multidisciplinary teams of nursing and allied health staff with the skills and experience to treat a full range of health needs.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are Metro South Health:
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services.
We are bold, creative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve.
We are better together.
Further information
We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote and.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online. Please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements. Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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