Dental Assistant / Receptionist - Banora Point

Coastal Dental Care; Banora Point; On-site; AUD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Above-award pay

Employee perks platform

Dental discounts

EAP support

Referral program

Job summary

Coastal Dental Care Banora Point is offering a full-time dental assistant/receptionist role in Banora Point. The role alternates between chairside support with dentists and front desk duties, with four surgeries to keep the day busy and patients well looked after.

You'll set up and close treatment rooms, assist with instruments and X-rays, manage the appointment book, answer phones, and help keep the practice stocked. Experience in dental settings and infection control is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience in a dental practice, both chairside and front desk.
• Solid knowledge of infection control and sterilisation.
• Warm and confident with patients, in person and on the phone.
• Organised and able to switch roles during the day.
• Willing to keep infection control and first aid training current.

Responsibilities

• Set up and close treatment rooms and the steri room each day.
• Assist dentists chairside: instruments, materials, suction and processing digital X-rays.
• Clean, package, sterilise and track instruments per infection control protocols.
• Greet patients, check them in and out, manage the appointment book in D4W.
• Answer phones, take payments and rebook patients as they leave.
• Keep surgeries stocked and flag supplies before they run low.

Skills

Chairside

Front desk

Infection control

Patient communication

Teamwork

Education

Certificate III/IV in Dental Assisting

Tools

D4W

Job description

Dental Assistant / Receptionist - Banora Point

We're your local family practice in the Banora Point Shopping Village, on the corner of Leisure and Darlington Drives. It's a four-surgery practice with a friendly team of dentists and support staff, and a lot of our patients bring the whole family. We're part of Coastal Dental Care, a dentist-owned network of 18 practices across the Gold Coast and Northern NSW, so you get a close local team with a bigger network behind it.

About Coastal Dental Care Banora Point

We're your local family practice in the Banora Point Shopping Village, on the corner of Leisure and Darlington Drives. It's a four-surgery practice with a friendly team of dentists and support staff, and a lot of our patients bring the whole family. We're part of Coastal Dental Care, a dentist-owned network of 18 practices across the Gold Coast and Northern NSW, so you get a close local team with a bigger network behind it.

About the role

This is a full-time all-rounder role. Most of your week is either on steri or chairside with our dentists, and you'll also cover the front desk and. Four surgeries keep the book busy, so the person who does well here reads the day early, moves between the chair, the desk and steri without fuss, and makes sure patients feel looked after wherever they meet you.

What you'll be doing

• Setting up and closing treatment rooms and the steri room each day
• Assisting our dentists chairside: instruments, materials, suction and processing digital X-rays
• Cleaning, packaging, sterilising and tracking instruments to our infection control protocols
• Greeting patients, checking them in and out, and managing the appointment book in D4W
• Answering phones, taking payments and rebooking patients before they leave
• Keeping surgeries stocked and flagging supplies before they run low

What we're looking for

Essential

• Experience in a dental practice, both chairside and on the front desk
• Sound knowledge of infection control and sterilisation
• Warm and confident with patients, in person and on the phone
• Organised and steady, and happy to switch roles during the day
• Willing to keep your infection control and first aid training current

Preferred

• Certificate III or IV in Dental Assisting
• Experience with Dental for Windows (D4W)

Why join us?

• Full-time hours and above-award pay
• Employment Hero perks platform: cashback, gift cards, novated leasing and more
• Dental discounts for you and your family
• Confidential support through our EAP program, whenever you need it
• Employee referral program
• A local Banora Point team, backed by a dentist-owned network of 18 practices