Dental Assistant at Serco Plc

Potts Point, New South Wales, Australia -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

27 Dec, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

28 Sep, 25

Experience

2 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Dental Assisting, Patient Care, Record Keeping, Oral Health Promotion, Team Collaboration, First Aid, CPR Certification, Hygiene Maintenance, Administrative Support, Database Management, Information Management, Filing, Photocopying, Stationery Ordering, Continuing Professional Development, Ethical Behaviour, Integrity

Industry

Facilities Services

Description

About Us ADF Health Services provides integrated healthcare services to Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel across Australia. As part of this contract, Serco, in partnership with Bupa, provide defence-ready clinical and support staff across 50+ on-base locations nationally, ensuring that ADF personnel have access to quality on-site medical care. To learn more please visit www.serco.com/ahsc About the Role As Bench Dental Assistant and Health Clerk 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 and will be responsible for providing clerical services including maintenance of electronic and hard copy health records, maintaining databases and information management systems, filing and photocopying and ordering stationery. A Bench role is a permanent full-time position with benefits like sick and annual leave. You must be flexible and available to backfill for sick or planned leave, even if you don't work all five shifts. Unlike a casual role, you're paid as a full-time employee regardless of shifts worked. 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 Health Centre Your role will span ADF bases across Central and Northern New South Wales. 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 Join Us If you are inspired to make a positive difference and would like to be considered for this opportunity, submit your application by clicking the 'Apply Now' button. 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. If you’re not an Australian Citizen, please feel free to apply to other healthcare roles with Serco through our careers site below. For a confidential chat, please contact Jasmine Joy at Jasmine.Joy@serco-ap.com If you would like to learn more about these and other opportunities available, please visit https://www.sercocareers.com/ADF-Health-Services to find out more. 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 requires employees in this role to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our people. Please consider this requirement when submitting your application. 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. We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGTBQI+, veterans and people with disability. By joining Serco you will have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

Responsibilities

Provide chair-side assistance to dental professionals and assist with administrative tasks related to patient records. Maintain hygiene standards in the dental surgery and support the delivery of quality dental care.