**Full-Time Dental Assistant**
- 9-day fortnight - long days (full-time wage) - parking available
- Oral and Maxillofacial practice - brand new modern Practice - Dr Leon Smith
- Great team & culture, opportunity to upskill
Do you enjoy oral and implant surgery? Do you like to wow our patients with your customer service and clinical skills and make a difference in our Surgeons and patients' lives? Then we want to hear from you
Dr Leon Smith is an established surgeon seeking a professional, highly organised, and experienced Dental Assistant for our expanding practice. Your role will be to provide full clinical assistance to our Surgeon, in a team environment alongside another Dental Assistant.
**Our requirements are**:
- Professional in your presentation, written and verbal communication
- Having previous Dental Assistant experience including managing consulting sessions and meet and greet (relief).
- Happy to perform administrative duties for our specialists and our Practice Manager
- Be a great team player - happy to assist others when needed and love working in well-functioning teams
- Assisting the surgeons with the preparation and follow-up of surgical procedures (in-room) and medical/dental multi-disciplinary patients in hospital theatres as well as in the rooms under local anaesthesia or IV
- Possess excellent organisational skills, outstanding work ethic and punctuality
- Have the capacity and energy to perform well in a busy environment - must be a skilled multi-tasker
- Assisting with stock or ordering, inventory tracking and management
- Supporting management to ensure the clinical activities and processes are performed effectively and efficiently
- Experience with theatre bookings, in-room procedure bookings and surgical quoting and billing viewed favourably
- Liaising with hospitals, health funds and external practices
**Traits**:
- Hands-on attitude, where nothing is beneath them, whether the job is big or small
- Clear and concise communicator who pre-empts our specialists' needs, who is proactive not reactive
- 'Can do' attitude who is extremely organised and prides themselves on their attention to detail
- Honest, trustworthy, loyal, and dependable
- Friendly with quiet confidence, always happy to assist others
**Experience**:
- Must have a minimum of one year of Dental Assistant experience with Cert IV in Dental Assisting or desire to work towards
- Private Specialist experience is viewed highly
**Days**: 8- or 9-day fortnight (day off to be negotiated)
It is a practice requirement that you are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and will be asked for your vaccination certificate during the recruitment process.
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**Salary**: $30.00 - $37.00 per hour
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
**Experience**:
- Dental assistance: 1 year (preferred)
Work Authorisation:
- Australia (preferred)