Dental Assistant

Serco; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Serco's team as a Dental Assistant, where you'll provide essential support in dental procedures and patient care at the Edinburgh Health Centre. You will assist dental professionals and help promote oral health while working in a dynamic environment that values your professional growth and welfare.

Benefits

Paid CPD leave

Paid volunteer leave

Free Car Parking

Lifestyle discounts

24/7 Employee Assistance Program

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ chair-side experience within the last 5 years.
• Current First Aid and CPR certification.
• Demonstrated compliance with relevant standards and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Provide chair-side assistance to Dentists and Dental Specialists.
• Enter/update patient records and promote oral health to patients.
• Maintain hygiene and cleanliness in the dental surgery.

Skills

Chair-side assistance

Oral health promotion

Education

Certificate III in Dental Assisting

Job description

Casual position available working on-base for ADF

Serco is a place where you can grow
Join a team of 12,000+ professionals across APAC and experience a place of challenge, opportunity, and reward.

We offer lots of headroom for you to grow and flexible benefits to suit you in every stage of your life and career, including:

• Paid CPD leave for permanent employees
• Paid volunteer leave and leave for Reservists
• The provision of uniforms
• Free Car Parking
• A variety of lifestyle discounts through our Benefits program, including discounts with Apple, Qantas, Hoyts Cinemas and more!
• Access to Sonder, our 24/7 Employee Assistance Program, including immediate mental health and counselling support as well as access to specialist support lines and wellbeing programs for you and your immediate family

Make an impact at Serco

• As a Dental Assistant, you’ll make a positive impact by:
• Providing chair-side assistance to a Dentist, Dental Specialist, or Hygienist
• Assisting with administrative tasks such as entering/updating patient records, as well as other duties as required
• Promoting oral health to patients
• Ensuring compliance with all relevant standards and procedures, including Defence Policies & Procedures
• Contributing to the cleanliness and effectiveness of a dental surgery environment, and maintaining optimal hygiene of the surgery

About ADF Health Services
In partnership with Bupa, our ADF Health Services team provides integrated healthcare services to Australian Defence Force (ADF) personnel across Australia.
This includes providing defence-ready clinical and support staff across 45+ on-base locations, ensuring that ADF personnel have access to quality on-site medical care.

About Edinburgh:
Edinburgh Health Centre is located 25km North of Adelaide, at RAAF Base Edinburgh. This super-base accommodates 3500 personnel from the Australian Army and RAAF, as well as being home to the RAAF Institute of Aviation Medicine. The health centre operates a 16-bed low dependency ward 24/7. It also provides primary medical, aviation medical, nursing, dental, physiotherapy, mental health, pharmaceutical and rehabilitation services. Standard operating hours are generally 07:30 – 15:30 Monday–Friday (depending on role requirements and specific craft groups required for weekend and on-call shifts).

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Certificate III in Dental Assisting or nationally recognised equivalent qualification
• Demonstrated compliance with relevant standards and procedures
• Minimum of 2 years’ (full-time equivalent) chair-side experience within the last 5 years
• Recent participation in Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities
• Current First Aid (HLTAID011) and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (HLTAID009) certification

Please note:

• You must be an Australian Citizen to obtain the required Baseline Security Clearance for this role
• You don’t need to be enlisted in the Defence Force to work as a civilian on base, and your job stays here, even if the Defence personnel you care for are deployed

If you would like to find out more before submitting, please feel free to contact Daniel Senior Talent Acquisition on 0497 918 845 and [email protected] for a confidential chat. We would love to hear from you.

As a fast-growing and successful global company, Serco’s services span across justice, migration, defence, space, customer services, health, and urban mobility.

In joining us, you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with trusted leaders who will help you achieve your goals.

Please note:

• Refer a friend or colleague who is a Healthcare Professional to join Serco’s Australian Defence Force Health Services team and receive a Prezzee Voucher if they are successful! Conditions apply.

Are you ready to do important work that matters?
At Serco, we bring together the right people, the right technology, and the right partners to create impactful solutions that address some of the world’s most urgent and complex challenges.
We focus on serving governments all over the globe. The work we do has touched the lives of millions in Australia, New Zealand, and Hong Kong, and offers unique opportunities to leverage your skills across our core capabilities in health, defence, maritime, justice, immigration, and community services.
We seek and celebrate diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds and cultures, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQI+, veterans and people with disability.
By joining Serco, you’ll have access to Employee Networks led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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We bring together the right people, the right technology and the right partners to create innovative solutions that make positive impact and address some of the most urgent and complex challenges facing the modern world.

With a primary focus on serving governments around the world, Serco’s operations in Asia Pacific span defence, maritime, healthcare, justice and immigration, transport and community services. Our core capabilities include service design and advisory, resourcing, complex programme management, systems integration, case management, engineering and, asset and facilities management.

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