Coastal Dental Care

Dental Assistant

Coastal Dental Care  •  Runaway Bay, AU (Onsite)  •  9 hours ago
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Job Description

About Coastal Dental Care

Coastal Dental Care Runaway Bay is co-owned and led by our principal dentist, Dr Will Dear, right in Runaway Bay Centre. We’re part of a dentist-owned network of 18 practices across the Gold Coast, but each practice runs like your local: close relationships with patients and a team that actually knows each other.

About the role

This is a Dental Assistant role, chairside every day at our Runaway Bay practice. It’s a casual position, with shifts set right from the start, the roster may flex week to week to suit the practice. You’ll work closely with Dr Will Dear, the Practice Manager and the wider practice team to keep things running smoothly for our patients.

What you’ll be doing

  • Setting up and closing treatment rooms, and keeping the surgery and sterilisation area neat and compliant
  • Assisting our dentists chairside: passing instruments, preparing materials and processing digital X-rays
  • Sterilising and reprocessing instruments, and keeping infection control records up to date
  • Helping manage stock levels and general practice admin

What we’re looking for

Essential

  • 2+ years' experience in a dental assisting role, including chairside support
  • Strong knowledge of infection control and sterilisation processes
  • A caring, professional and patient-focused approach
  • Strong attention to detail and reliability
  • Willingness to keep infection control and first aid qualifications current

Preferred

  • Certificate III or IV in Dental Assisting
  • Familiarity with Dental for Windows (D4W) or similar software

Why join us?

  • Above-award pay and a flexible casual roster that works around you
  • Employment Hero perks platform: cashback, gift cards, novated leasing and more
  • Dental discounts for you and your family
  • Confidential support through our EAP program, whenever you need it
  • Employee referral program
  • A close-knit local team backed by our wider Gold Coast network

How to apply

Click “Apply” to send us your application. If you’d like to chat first, email talent@coastaldentalcare.com.au and mention the Runaway Bay Dental Assistant role.

Coastal Dental Care

About Coastal Dental Care

Coastal Dental Care are a group of privately owned dental practices, run by dentists. With 15 dental practices and 2 dental labs located from South Brisbane to Northern NSW, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional patient care to our local community. Striving to deliver a positive perception of dentistry through practice pride, performance, and passion our family orientated business is one of continual growth.

We believe that excellence in dentistry does not finish after graduating from university, so we established the Australian Institute of Continuing Education in Dentistry (AICE) which provides ongoing professional development for all of our team members and external clients.

Industry
Dental & Orthodontics
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Gold Coast, AU
Year Founded
2005
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