Description:
Posted 14/07/2025 Job Number 52189 Work type Full Time Posting End Date 11/08/2025
A career with us at Palmerston Dental Surgery is more than just a job. It's an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our customers and community. Our purpose, helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives, is what inspires us. It's a promise to our customers to change lives for the better. Our people are at the heart of this.
We are looking for a Dental Assistant who is passionate, dedicated and customer centric to work in our practice. We are a solid, stable team looking to expand our team as we prepare for a significant growth in customer volumes.
Dental Experience is required for the role
Someone passionate who thrives on patient care
There’s nothing like showing up to work and feeling at home. That’s why the practice puts so much effort into creating a truly supportive work environment. What’s more, if you have the ambition and the potential, we’ll give you the opportunity to progress within Dental Assisting or across a variety of other roles such as practice manager, via our Future Leaders Program.
The Heart of the Role:
- Develop and maintain positive relationships by providing excellent customer service to our patients
- Prepare patients & facilities for dental treatment
- Deliver quality chairside assistance to our Dentists
- Provide instrument sterilisation and infection control solutions
- Maintain and implement infection control standards and procedures
- Patient care from entry to the surgery and recall management
What you'll bring:
- Ability to keep calm and professional in a fast-paced environment
- Dental Assisting Experience is required
- Cert III in Dental Assisting is preferred.
- Passionate about customer service and patient care
- Efficient with Microsoft Word and Outlook
- Organised with attention to detail
- A proven track record of punctuality and reliability
- Ability to build rapport with patients, in a cheerful, light-hearted manner
- ‘Can do’ attitude
Benefits of joining Palmerston Dental Surgery:
- Competitive salary + Bupa benefits including significant product and service discounts
- Comprehensive training and ongoing development - we say it because we actually do it!
- Internal career progression opportunities
- Well designed and fitted out practices with the latest equipment/technology for great patient care and experience
- Networking opportunities across the business and with peers
- Paid parental leave and Salary sacrifice options
Our people are at the heart of everything we do, because we care. We have created environments where people can look forward to coming to work, feel empowered and benefit from working collaboratively with brilliant & talented experts. For more information about a career in dental please visit - Dental Career Opportunities (bupa.com.au)
How to apply:
If you are interested in this opportunity, click now, and 'Apply'.
For successful candidates, a Working with Children Check permit is required as part of our mandatory background check screening process.