Join Metro North Health as an Oral Health Therapist within the School Dental Service, delivering high-quality oral health care to patients across community and hospital settings. You’ll be part of a supportive multidisciplinary team committed to improving oral health outcomes for the community.

About the role

Permanent full-time or part-time opportunity to deliver high-quality, patient-centred oral health services within the School Dental Service as part of Metro North Oral Health Services, providing care across community and hospital settings, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, and contributing to health promotion, service improvement, and culturally safe care while developing clinical expertise and supporting positive oral health outcomes for the community.

About you

Our ideal candidate will be someone who can carry out the following key accountabilities in accordance with the Metro North Health's values:

• Deliver quality clinical services across a variety of caseloads in a community or hospital setting in accordance with prescribed professional and ethical standards.
• As experience builds, apply increasingly independent clinical judgement and problem-solving skills to more complex clinical decision making and matters beyond routine practice, with clinical practice supervision or professional guidance decreasing commensurate with level of clinical experience.
• Accurately and concisely record all patient interaction as well as workload measurement statistics, to facilitate the analysis of service trends.
• Provide clinical practice supervision for less experienced practitioners, commensurate with the level of experience, as well as direction to assistants, support staff and work experience students, under guidance of senior clinical practitioners.

Benefits when working for us

• Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas
• Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance
• Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
• Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75% and access to salary packaging

Metro North Health offers a dynamic and progressive environment at the forefront of healthcare, research, and education. With a strong commitment to inclusion, flexibility, and professional development, we provide meaningful opportunities in a workplace that puts people first. You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro North here: https://metronorth.health.qld.gov.au/careers

Applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged and welcomed.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

APPLICATIONS RECEIVED VIA THIRD PARTIES (RECRUITMENT AGENCIES ETC.) WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED