About your role As a Senior Dental Assistant, you'll play a key leadership role in ensuring high standards of patient care, infection control, and team performance within the Metro South Community and Oral Health Service.You'll work closely with clinicians, lead and mentor dental assistants, and support the smooth, safe, and efficient operation of the clinic. Key responsibilities: Deliver high-quality dental assisting services in general and specialist care. Maintain infection control, sterilisation, and clinical safety standards. Provide leadership, direction, and mentoring for dental assistants. Coordinate staff, workflow, and resources to meet service targets. Support recruitment, performance management, and staff development. Contribute to service improvement, patient safety, and quality initiatives. About you You're a confident and skilled dental assistant with strong leadership and organisational skills. You bring professionalism, teamwork, and a patient-first attitude to everything you do. You will have: Certificate in Dental Assisting (mandatory). Demonstrated knowledge of sterilizing services (AS/NZS 4187). Strong leadership and team coordination skills. Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities. Proven ability to prioritise, problem-solve and work autonomously. Commitment to safety, quality, and continuous improvement. Current Working with Children Blue Card and Class C driver's licence. Commitment to work across several other facilities across Metro South Hospital and Health Services 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 leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging 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 Our values 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, innovative, 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.
