Community Dental Assistants Ashburton

3 months ago


Ashburton, New Zealand Health New Zealand - Te Whatu Ora Waitaha Canterbury Full time

**Mō te tūnga - About the Role**
- 1.0FTE (40 hours a week), Permanent role
- Monday to Friday, 8am - 5pm

We’re looking for energetic and enthusiastic Dental Assistants with a caring ‘can-do’ attitude to join our kapa (team).

Our service delivers dental service to 90,000+ children in the Canterbury and South Canterbury communities. We have 14 clinics located around our communities, 18 mobile units that visit schools to provide dental examinations and preventative care for children, and 4 towable van clinics around our rural communities. No day is the same.

You will be working alongside a team of Oral Health Therapist/Dental Therapist, to deliver oral health care in a professional, and friendly environment. You will have an opportunity to complete a Level 4 certificate as a Dental Assistant, through Career Force.

In this role, you will be responsible for:

- Providing chair-side assistance with general clinical care
- Supporting the clinician with managing anxious children
- Processing and completing sterilisation process for instruments
- Managing administrative tasks and scheduling appointments with parents.

Based in Ashburton. Salary starting from $69,975 - $84,193 (Based on the PSA Allied, Public Health and Technical collective agreement)

**Ko wai koe - About You**

**Ngā pūkenga me ngā wheako - Skills and Experience**
- A Full NZ driver licence to drive a mobile screening van to local schools
- The ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively with colleagues
- Caring and responsive to children's needs
- A strong drive to build rapport with children and their whānau
- The ability to be adaptable with the variety of tasks
- Common sense in decision making
- Intermediate to Advanced IT knowledge and skills with the ability to effectively record patient notes
- Ideally experience as a Hospital Aide or similar
- Experience in the dental industry is not essential.

**Ngā** **hua - Benefits**
- Ongoing training and development
- Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora employee benefits

When you work at the Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, you are part of a wider whānau that will support you along your journey. We offer great coaching, mentoring and learning outcomes for all staff. We are always improving our facilities across all campuses and have amazing discounts from select retailers, restaurants and business.

**Mō mātou - About us**
- “Ko ngā tāngata, te mātua mahi - Putting people at the heart of all we do”_

Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora, leads the day-to-day running of our health system across New Zealand, with functions delivered at local, district, regional and national levels. It weaves the functions of the 20 former District Health Boards into its regional divisions and district offices, ensuring continuity of services in the health system.

Here in Canterbury | Waitaha, we deliver health services to the almost 600,000 people that live in the Canterbury region. We are committed to Te Tiriti o Waitangi and its principles by ensuring our partnership with Māori are at the forefront of all our conversations.

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