Hireovo · Allied Health
Dental Hygienist
Sydney, Australia · FULL TIME
About the role
Mid-level Dental Hygienist talent pool in Sydney, focused on infection control in the surgery.
Employer assignments use this pool when they need a Dental Hygienist in Sydney, Australia, who is accountable for infection control in the surgery. The useful week is spent following the decontamination steps and stopping if a step was missed, with mistakes corrected in the open rather than buried.
Responsibilities
- Review the decontamination for the step order you were trained on and correct it before anyone else relies on it.
- Keep a single current pack check, and archive the older copy once you have dealt with an instrument pack that is not intact.
- Ask the practice lead to challenge the water or suction check, especially around a check you were assigned.
- Write the assumption behind the sharps in two or three plain sentences, and mention a disposal that matches the practice rule.
- Compare this week's exposure with the previous one and explain the report you must make.
- Stop and rework the audit if you find a check of your own setup.
Requirements
- Roughly 2 to 6 years of running dental infection control that matches this dental hygienist profile, or a shorter record with the same kind of finished work.
- Practical skill with decontamination procedures in dental hygienist work, not a certificate alone.
- Able to explain what you do if a pack is not intact to a colleague who was not in the room.
- Careful with skipping a decontamination step; this is checked in review of dental hygienist work.
- For the dental hygienist brief in Sydney, hold the current registration or licence required to do this work in Australia; a human reviewer confirms the exact credential before any placement.
Nice to have
- Decontamination steps is useful on dental hygienist assignments in Sydney, and it is not required.
- People who have already done sharps disposal can start this dental hygienist brief with less coaching.
- Exposure reports is a plus for dental hygienist work based in Sydney.
Skills
dental hygiene, periodontal charting, infection control, patient education, dental records, radiography only where locally authorised, professional registration, referral
Working conditions
This is an on-site dental hygienist listing in Sydney, Australia. Work happens at the assignment's premises. The usual week is Monday to Friday, on Australian Eastern Time. The work is clinical and on site, seated and standing, with infection-control duties between patients.
Location
The hiring base for this dental hygienist listing is Sydney, Australia. English is the working language for this Sydney brief. Dental-hygienist registration and permitted duties in Sydney follow Australia rules. Radiography and local anaesthesia are not assumed; they are confirmed before placement.
Qualified people are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.
This is a talent-pool listing. Your profile will be reviewed and matched to employer openings that fit; submitting an application does not guarantee an interview or placement.
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