
Advanced Oral Health Therapist
Metro South Health Service
Posted 7 days ago
Your new role:
As an Advanced Oral Health Therapist with Metro South Oral Health, you'll play a pivotal leadership role, managing a medium-sized team across multiple sites while providing expert clinical care and professional guidance. You'll contribute to strategic planning, service improvement and ensure the highest standards of patient care by:
- Leading and mentoring Oral Health teams to deliver high-quality, patient-centred services.
- Overseeing day-to-day operations, including staff performance, budgets, and resource allocation.
- Driving continuous service improvement through data analysis, feedback, and evidence-based practice.
- Collaborating with Principal Dentists and clinical leaders to align oral health services with organisational goals.
- Providing advanced clinical care, advice, and supervision to staff and students.
- Representing MSOH in committees, projects, and professional networks to enhance service delivery.
About you:
You're an experienced Oral Health professional with strong clinical skills and a passion for leadership, ready to make a tangible difference in community oral health. You'll bring with you:
- Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and motivate multidisciplinary teams.
- Advanced clinical knowledge and expertise in oral health therapy.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills to engage effectively with staff, patients, and stakeholders.
- Proven capacity to plan and implement service improvement initiatives.
- Current registration with AHPRA and a tertiary qualification in Oral Health Therapy.
- Current radiation licence and Class C driver's licence (with willingness to travel across sites).
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What can we offer you:
- Be part of a progressive, high-performing oral health service that values innovation, teamwork and continuous improvement.
- Work across a diverse range of clinics within the Beenleigh, Browns Plains and Beaudesert Cluster – no two days are the same.
- Access to flexible work arrangements supporting work-life balance and family commitments.
- Ongoing training, mentorship, and leadership development to help you grow your career.
- The opportunity to influence service planning and clinical excellence across one of Queensland's most dynamic health networks.
- You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.
Community and Oral Health Services:
Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children.
We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services.
INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE
Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.
We are better together.
About Metro South Health Service
Metro South Health is the major provider of public health services, and health education and research, in the Brisbane south side, Logan, Redlands and Scenic Rim regions.
We serve an estimated population of 1 million people, 23 per cent of Queensland’s population. We employ more than 10,000 staff and have an annual operating budget of $1.6 billion.
Our catchment spans 3,856 square kilometres and covers the area from the Brisbane River in the north to Redland City in the east, south to Logan and the eastern portion of the Scenic Rim to the border of New South Wales.
We have five major hospitals in addition to a number of health centres throughout the region.
Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.
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