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Netcare: Dental Assistant Internships 2022
Netcare: Dental Assistant Internships 2022 has become available in Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal and Western Cape for unemployed graduates in possession of the below qualifications. If interested, kindly check the requirements. STREAK OF LUCK!
Netcare invites suitably qualified applicants to apply for Graduate / Internship Programme 2022.
Company: Netcare
Date Listed: 08 March 2022
Job Title: Dental Assistant Intern
Job Type: Graduate Internship
Location: Boksburg, Gauteng; Pinetown and Richardsbay, KwaZulu-Natal & LengebergWestern Cape, South Africa
Closing Date: 09 March 2022
The Dental Assistant is responsible to assist the Dentists in various capacities ranging from clinical assistance, dental-related administration as well as patient interaction across a wide spectrum.
Duties and Responsibilities:
Appointment Scheduling
- Schedule appointments with Specialists and/or Theatre
- Confirm appointments with the Dentist
- Keep record of confirmation/cancellations
- Liaise with medical schemes and patients regarding available limits and patient liable amounts pertaining to treatment
Equipment Maintenance
- Sterilise all instruments, according to protocol, ensuring infection control standards are maintained
- Oil and clean handpieces 3x daily, according to protocol
- Oil and clean electric handpieces after each patient
- Fill, empty and clean developer and mixer bottles
- Ensure chemistry is discarded as per Medical Waste Protocol
- Clean and autoclave instruments
- Ensure daily cleaning of the autoclave
- Load and unload autoclave
- Clean and reprocess equipment or instrumentation
- Identify problems with equipment/instruments and advise applicable person to arrange for timeous repairs/acquisition thereof
Central Assistance
- Assist the Dentist with passing correct instruments and materials/consumables used on patients on request timeously and accurately
- Develop X-rays, if not using digital X-rays and load X-ray Digital Imaging plates for scanning where applicable
- Mix materials with spatula as required
- Conduct suctioning as required
- Ensure materials and supplies are packed and accessible
- Ensure and plan enough stock on hand in terms of materials/consumables to prevent shortages
- Mix amalgam and/or mixable composites/cement etc. and place in the transfer tool/s to be handed to dentist
- Prepare sterile trays; ensuring instruments have undergone sterilisation
- Prepare non sterile trays
Customer Focus and Service Delivery
- Ensure effective and formal communication
- Ensure a professional environment at all times
- Interact with patients in a friendly and comforting manner whilst preparing them for the dentist (i.e. placing bib, seating etc.) and with the exiting process out of the surgery after the procedure/s have been completed
Education:
- Grade 12 or equivalent NQF 4 certificate
- Registered with HPCSA
- Higher Certificate in Dental Assisting essential
Work Experience:
- Computer literacy
- Not Applicable (Internship)
Knowledge:
- Thorough knowledge of general / primary care nursing theory and practice
- Extensive knowledge of modern nursing care principles and practices in the highly specialised field of the intensive care nursing
How to Apply for Netcare: Dental Assistant Internships 2022
Interested candidates who meet the above criteria are requested to e-mail a detailed CV to the email address below their preferred location.
Dental Assistant – Medicross Boksburg
Applications Email: Patrick.Ellis@medicross.co.za
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Dental Assistant – Medicross Pinetown
Applications Email: Allen.Marimuthu@medicross.co.za
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Dental Assistant – Medicross Richardsbay
Applications Email: Roshan.Ramparsad@medicross.co.za
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Dental Assistant – Medicross Langeberg
Applications Email: Charlotte.Daschner@medicross.co.za
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Please note:
- Please note that reference checks for internal applicants will be conducted with the applicant’s current and past Netcare direct line managers and the relevant Netcare HR Managers. Therefore, employees are encouraged to discuss internal job applications with their direct line manager to ensure that the line manager is aware of the application.
- The terms and conditions of employment relating to the function you have applied for will be based on those in the Division you will be employed.
- If a candidate has any disability that may impair the individual’s ability to perform the job function, the candidate must kindly inform the employer so that an assessment for reasonable accommodation can be made.
- By applying for this position and providing us with your CV and other personal information, you are consenting to the information being used for the specific purpose for which it was provided, which is recruitment purposes and possible appointment purposes (should you be successful). Please note that your information will be processed for recruitment purposes only or for such purposes relating to assessing the establishment of an employment relationship with yourself, and this will be done in accordance with the applicable data protection and privacy legislation. We confirm that such information will not be used for any other purpose without obtaining your prior consent.
- If your application is not successful, we retain your CV and other information provided on our electronic system. If you object to your information being used in accordance with the aforementioned clauses, please indicate your objection, and we will immediately securely destroy your personal information.
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