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You may be posted to any Air Force Base within Australia, with some opportunity for overseas deployment.

You will be paid while you train, and on completion of your Initial Military Training and Employment Training, you’ll earn at least:

Training

Your starting salary

Trained

Your salary once trained

In the Air Force you'll get paid a good salary from day one regardless of your age, experience or qualifications; and your pay increases as you progress through training. In addition to your salary you'll receive a variety of allowances, extra pay for relevant qualifications – plus 16.4% superannuation, a far higher rate than you're likely to find in the civilian world.

General Entry: Non-Technical

Dental Assistants will be offered the opportunity to undertake the Senior Dental Assistant Course which further develops their skills and qualifies them to take radiographs on the prescription of a Dentist, assist with procedures under general anaesthesia or conscious sedation, and for selected oral health promotion and education tasks. Following completion of this training, they will be reclassified as Dental Assistant Grade 2. 
<div class="p" >Senior Dental Assistants may be offered the opportunity to undertake a demanding course of training over a 21 week intensive program conducted at HMAS Cerberus leading to remuster as Senior Dental Assistant - Preventive (SDAP). This is a military unique skill and does not lead to the award of a civilian qualification. The duties of the Senior Dental Assistant Preventive is to provide limited preventive oral healthcare services within a military defined scope of practice on healthy adult military personnel on the prescription of a military dental officer and under the indirect supervision of a military dental officer. </div>
Further development at the rank of Sergeant and above will be into supervisory and managerial roles where skills in management, finance, training, work health and safety and quality assurance skills become more highly developed.

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Dental Assistants are an important member of the Air Force health care team. They support Air Force, civilian dentists, and civilian dental hygienists, working for the ADF to provide high quality treatment.

They are employed in dental chair-side support roles, assisting for dental treatment under general anaesthesia and conscious sedation, oral health education, practice administration and other health support duties. They may be required on occasion to undertake these duties with portable dental equipment either within Australia or overseas. Generally, a Dental Assistant will be classified as a non-combatant role and will be a protected person under international law when performing these duties on operations.

Dental Assistants are usually the first point of contact for a patient seeking dental treatment and are therefore, required to have well developed interpersonal skills, sound written and verbal communication and excellent attention to detail.

Dental Assistants are required to follow stringent infection control protocols in order to maintain a safe working environment and patient care.&nbsp;
Their duties may include:&nbsp;
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 <li>Provide chair-side assistance to dentists and civilian hygienists as directed</li>
 <li>Prepare dental restorative impression and therapeutic materials for use by the Dentist</li>
 <li>Operate and maintain all dental surgery equipment as directed</li>
 <li>Process, classify and mount intra-oral radiographs</li>
 <li>Prepare, interpret and maintain patient records on both manual and electronic systems</li>
 <li>Coordinate and maintain dental appointment system</li>
 <li>Perform hygiene / sterilisation / infection control procedures for chair-side procedures including cleanliness of dental surgeries, instruments, and equipment</li>
 <li>Assist with accounting procedures for dental section stores, equipment and material</li>
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Join a dynamic healthcare team, providing dentists with chair-side support, being first point of contact for patients, and contributing to high quality treatment.

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Dental Assistant

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Benefits you won't see anywhere else

You’ll enjoy the following:

Great salary from day one, which increases with experience

Generous superannuation of 16.4% – a huge 4.9% over the Australian standard

Help to buy a home, a subsidised home loan or rent allowance

Free medical and dental for you, and subsidised healthcare for you and your family

Fully paid training

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