About the role
Your new role
As an Oral Health Therapist or Dental Therapist within Metro South Oral Health, you will play a vital role in delivering patient centred, high quality dental and oral health care as part of a multidisciplinary team. Core aspects of the position include:
- Delivering Clinical Care: Providing comprehensive dental and oral health therapy services including assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation to manage complex care needs for diverse paediatric and adult consumers in adherence with professional and ethical standards.
- Team Participation & Communication: Working cooperatively with clients, families, community groups, supervisors, students, and other health professionals, while accurately managing patient interactions and workload statistics.
- Service Improvement & Quality: Actively participating in quality improvement activities, data collection, research initiatives, and the implementation of clinical practices and protocols that support the continuum of care.
About you
The ideal candidate is dedicated, collaborative, and equipped with the professional acumen and interpersonal skills needed to drive excellence in public oral health delivery. We are looking for someone who demonstrates:
- Strong Clinical Expertise: The ability to deliver quality clinical services across varied caseloads while applying increasingly independent clinical judgment and problem solving skills to complex care and decision-making.
- Effective Collaboration: Excellent communication and teamwork skills to build positive relationships with patients, multidisciplinary team members, community groups, and students.
- A Commitment to Quality Improvement: An active dedication to enhancing service delivery through participation in quality improvement activities, evidence-based care, and best-practice clinical protocols.
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What we can offer you
- We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
- We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
- We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
- You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
About us
Metro South Oral Health Services is the largest public provider in the state. It provides a comprehensive range of services to eligible paediatric and adult populations.
The Service provides family centred and paediatric primary oral health care and a range of secondary and specialist care from multiple sites across Metro South Health.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are better together.