Regional Lead, Oral Health Therapy

Latrobe Community Health Services; Morwell; On-site; AUD 57,000 - 81,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $15,900 taxfree

Meals and entertainment allowance up $

Novated leasing

Training and development opportunities

Buddy support on commencement

Discounted private health insurance

Career progression

Meaningful community impact

Job summary

Latrobe Community Health Services is seeking a Part-time Team Leader Oral Health Therapy to lead a dedicated team across fixed and outreach locations in the Latrobe Valley, including Morwell. The role blends hands-on clinical leadership with mentoring, ensuring high-quality oral health services and program delivery.

You will supervise Oral Health Therapists, Dental Therapists, and Oral Health Educators, while supporting recruitment, training and service performance improvements.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated senior clinical experience and expertise in oral health therapy or dental therapy.
• Experience in the delivery of the Smile Squad program.
• Demonstrated team leadership skills, including the ability to motivate, support and develop others.
• Strong time management, organisation and problem-solving skills in a busy clinical environment

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership, supervision and mentoring to Oral Health Therapists, Dental Therapists and Oral Health Educators.
• Deliver oral health therapy services across fixed and outreach locations, maintaining an appropriate clinical workload.
• Coordinate and oversee the delivery of outreach dental services, including the Smile Squad program.
• Support recruitment, onboarding, performance management and professional development of team members.
• Monitor service performance, productivity and key performance indicators to ensure effective service delivery.
• Promote evidence-based clinical practice, clinical governance and continuous quality improvement.
• Build strong relationships with schools, internal teams and external stakeholders to support effective outreach services.
• Ensure compliance with clinical standards, infection prevention, safety requirements and relevant quality standards

Skills

Senior clinical experience

Team leadership

Mentoring clinicians

Smile Squad delivery

Education

Bachelor of Oral Health Therapy

Job description

Latrobe Community Health Services is seeking a Part-time Team Leader Oral Health Therapy to lead a dedicated team across fixed and outreach locations in the Latrobe Valley, including Morwell. The role blends hands-on clinical leadership with mentoring, ensuring high-quality oral health services and program delivery.

You will supervise Oral Health Therapists, Dental Therapists, and Oral Health Educators, while supporting recruitment, training and service performance improvements.