• Employment Type: Temporary Full Time or Part Time (up until 30/06/2026)
  
• Position Classification: Dental Assistant Grade 1
  
• Location: Nepean Hospital
  
• Remuneration: $33.26 - $35.53 per hour
  
• Hours Per Week: up to 38
  
• Requisition ID: REQ561858

With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment, working with us will ensure your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen career role.

About Us

Nepean Blue Mountains Local Health District (NBMLHD) is a wonderful place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Nepean, Blue Mountains, and Lithgow Region.

Nepean Hospital is a teaching hospital that provides tertiary referral services in emergency care, coronary care, diagnostics, gynaecology, paediatric, neonatal intensive care/ICU, maternity, mental health, rehabilitation, and surgery. The Nepean Campus has recently experienced tremendous growth and aims to support communities within and outside of Sydney’s western suburbs, providing world-class clinical facilities, services, and care.

NBMLHD has an exciting offer available for Dental Assistants Grade 1 to join the Hawkesbury and Nepean Oral Health Clinics. On offer are Temporary Full time or Part time position until June 2026.

Your role as the Dental Assistant will assist Dental Clinicians in clinical situations. This will see you participate and assist within the Primary School Mobile Dental Program, assist and attain the infection control practices of the clinic, maintain and clean dental equipment as required and participate in Oral Health promotion activities.

You will manage and complete priorities within a busy clinical environment whilst maintaining a high quality of patient care and will work effectively within a health care team environment.

Our positive and innovative environment will offer many opportunities and career pathways and we encourage you to apply now!

Benefits available to eligible NBMLHD employees

• Accrued Day Off (ADO) Full time employees only
• Opportunity for extra tax savings through Salary Packaging
• Novated Leasing
• Great education opportunities through Education Training Service which offers over 110 courses each year
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Fitness Passport

NBMLHD is committed to achieving a diverse workforce and is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively encourages diversity and inclusion within our workforce. We encourage and welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; people living with disability; people from a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) background; people who identify as LGBTQI+, people with a lived experience of mental health concerns and people of mature age.

NBMLHD is committed to implementing the child safe standards. For more information, please click here Child Safe Standards.

Selection Criteria

1. Demonstrated recent and adequate experience in chair side dental assisting with or without Certificate III in dental assisting
2. Demonstrated ability to perform effective and efficient infection prevention and control procedures in all aspects of Dental Assisting
3. Demonstrated proficiency and accuracy in dental charting
4. Effective communication written and verbal communication skills
5. Demonstrated ability to work in a large, multidiscipline team environment
6. Demonstrated excellent organisational, time-management and problem-solving skills
7. Data entry experience and skills

Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified and must not exceed the duration or conditions associated with the current visa.

Need more information?

1. Click here for the Position Description
2. For role related queries or questions contact Erin Smith on [email protected]