About The Dental Assistant Traineeship Initiative

Dental Health Services Victoria (DHSV) has partnered with Jobs Victoria offering exciting opportunities to start a career in the public oral health sector and complete a Certificate III in Dental Assisting, along with the paid experience and capability to build your future career.

The Role

Albury Wodonga Health (AWH) stands as the largest health service in the region, situated in Albury and Wodonga, twin cities between Sydney and Melbourne. Their team of nearly 3,000 staff members caters to approximately 250,000 individuals in North-East Victoria and Southern NSW. AWH is experiencing rapid growth and is presently constructing new, contemporary facilities for emergency care and mental health services, aimed at enhancing community support.

This role is full-time from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM, Monday through Friday.

The Dental Assistant role involves:

• All aspects of chair-side dental assistance to dental clinicians.
• Supporting the delivery of person-centred dental care and excellent customer service.
• Undertaking general reception duties and administrative tasks to support the service.
• Working collaboratively as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.

What Is Offered

• 12-month fixed term employment, while you study
• All related Registered Training Organisation (RTO) enrolment and training fees are covered
• A dedicated support network who wants to see you succeed
• An integrated work and learning environment – you will be able to access paid study time and apply your learnings in an oral health environment
• Mentoring and supervision from qualified senior dental assistants
• Exciting parental leave benefits and professional development opportunities
• Salary packaging to suit you – a tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,500 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from salary packaging providers
• Novated leasing available

The Dental Assistant Traineeship Initiative is open to all Victorian applicants, but preference will be given to specific priority groups below.

• Women over 45
• Young Victorians under 25
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• Victorians living with disability
• People seeking asylum/refugees
• Newly arrived migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds
• Veterans
• Single parents
• People who are long-term unemployed
• Culturally and linguistically diverse people

About You

• Previous customer service experience is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Basic computer proficiency

How To Apply?

To submit your interest in our Dental Assistant Traineeship Initiative. Click on the Seek Apply now and a member of our team at DHSV will then be in touch once we have reviewed your application.

For any enquiries, please contact at [email protected] using the subject line: Dental Assistant Traineeship - Albury Wodonga Health enquiry via EthicalJobs.

At DHSV, we have a bold vision and we feel a great sense of responsibility to provide you with an environment where you can grow and feel like you belong. By building a workforce across Victoria that has inclusive representation at all levels, is proactive in tackling inequality and represents the diversity of the patients we care for, we will see meaningful and sustainable change.

DHSV is committed to child safety and wellbeing and has zero tolerance for child abuse and harm. We provide an inclusive and welcoming environment where cultural safety for children is promoted and practiced.

DHSV is a public health service and requires employees to be vaccinated in accordance with policies published by the Department of Health and/or public health orders issued by the government. The government requires all healthcare workers (which includes all DHSV employees) to be vaccinated for COVID-19.