Dental Assistant

**Where you’ll be working**:Oral and Maxillofacial Department (OMS) - Waikato Hospital, Hamilton

**The details**:Permanent Full-time - 40 Hours per week (1 FTE) - Monday to Friday
- **Be part of the national transformation in Health**
- **Highly rewarding role and opportunity to make a difference**
- **Be a valued member of a supportive and collegial department**
- **Work in a variety of patient settings**

**Te whiwhinga mahi | The Opportunity**

We have an extraordinary opportunity for a Dental Assistant to join our OMS team. We are a stand-alone service looking for two enthusiastic Dental Assistants. In this role, you will assist our OMFS SMOs, Registrars and House Officers with OMS and Dental procedures in our hospital clinics and general anaesthetic settings.

**Click here** to view the position description.**
- (Please note position descriptions can only be viewed on the Te Whatu Ora - Waikato website.)_

**Mō tātou Ratonga | About our Service**

The OMS Department provides a tertiary service to the Central North Island of New Zealand. Hamilton is a level 1 major trauma centre and one of the largest tertiary teaching hospitals with over 600 inpatient beds and 22 operating theatres. Waikato is the major trauma centre for the region serving a catchment population of approximately 1 million.

Day to day roles include:

- Assisting with Biopsies of lesions around the mouth and face
- Assisting with Surgical Extractions
- Assisting with Suturing of facial lacerations
- Assisting with Taking impressions
- Assisting with dressing changes on our post-operative patients
- Assisting with Maxillofacial consult clinics
- Assisting with Preparation, maintenance and sterilisation of Nasal Endoscopy
- Assisting with Oral Surgery Procedures under Sedation
- Assisting With Maxillofacial Minor Oral Procedure Clinics (MOPS)
- Setting up and cleaning after consult clinics/procedures
- Assisting with try ins of bite splints
- Assisting or filling out WESP’s for Maxillofacial patients
- Assisting on the ACUTE Clinic with procedures and consults
- Taking Intra-oral Radiographs and taking CBCT scans
- Assisting with Oral Hygiene Instruction
- Assisting Maxillofacial Surgery CNC in running OMS department

**Mōu | About you**

Required skills & experience you will need to be considered for this role:

- Knowledge and understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi
- Ability to prioritise effectively
- Good communication, conscientious and reliable
- Experience working as a dental assistant (preferable), healthcare assistant or sterilisation assistant/technician. You will receive additional training in relation to CBCT/OPG imaging.
- An interest in working in a hospital setting with complex cases

**Ko wai mātou | Our Organisation**

**Te iwi Ngakaunui - People at Heart**
- Whakamana - Give and earn respect
- Whakaronga - Listen to me; Talk to me
- Mauri Pai - Fair play
- Whakapakari - Growing the good
- Kotahitanga - Stronger together

It is not very often something happens that is big; like, really big. Big to the point that it will touch the lives of every single person in the country. That is what we are talking about here. The provision of Health in Aotearoa New Zealand, and how its run is about to change in a big way.

Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand and Te Aka Whai Ora - Māori Health Authority will together shape the delivery of Health services in Aotearoa New Zealand for generations to come, and will form the core of a modern and integrated service looking after the needs of all our Whānau.

We are dedicated to achieving health equity for Māori and other priority populations. We are a Crown entity and an active partner in Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand is guided by Te Tiriti o Waitangi and is committed to upholding the articles.

Here at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand, Waikato we have a team of 8,000 working across the Waikato where everyone plays a vital role in the care of our patients - directly or non-directly. Our vision is Healthy People. Excellent Care.

Te Whatu Ora, Waikato serves the largest Māori population and third largest Pacific population in Aotearoa New Zealand. Waikato Hospital in Hamilton is one of New Zealand’s largest tertiary, teaching hospitals with over 600 inpatient beds and 22 operating theatres. Clinical specialities include Women’s and Children Services, Cardiology / Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oncology and Haematology, Surgical services, and Mental Health and Addiction. Waikato Hospital is the Midland regional referral centre for multiple specialties including trauma surgery, oncology, and neurology.

We are a values-based and inclusive organisation that is committed to deliver the best health outcomes for our total population. Reflecting the population we serve is an important part of the care we deliver to the community. We strongly encourage applicants from all backgrounds with the necessary capability and who share our values to apply. We proactively deve