Dental Assistant at University of the Witwatersrand

Dental Assistant (Grade 15)
Permanent post
        
Requirements:

• Appropriate qualification that allows registration with HPCSA as a Dental Assistant.  Registration with HPCSA as Dental Assistant and proof of current registration.  The applicant must have excellent time management, organizational skills and communication skills, be self-motivated and goal-orientated, analytical and solution orientated, and have the ability to communicate with personnel at various levels in the organization.

Duties:

• Assist Clinicians during oral health procedures
• Preparation of instruments and dental material for dental procedures
• Cleaning and sterilisation of instruments
• Practice and maintain infection control standards
• Patient care
• Compile statistics of the work done in the facility
• Ordering of consumables as needed
• Do inventory count of dental instruments
• Perform administrative duties
• Relieve in other Oral Health facilities
• Working at external training platforms offsite as and when required        

Closing date:  16 February 2020