Intercare Job Vacancy as Dental Assistant 2025
About the Intercare Job Vacancy as Dental Assistant 2025
Intercare is offering an employment opportunity for job seekers looking to become a professional Dental Assistant for their Dental Centre based in Somerset West, Western Cape. The Intercare Job Vacancy as Dental Assistant is an opportunity that will allow you to be involved in the world of specialist dentistry and other dental processes, while also tending to the administrative side of patient administration. Once accepted, you will be based in Waterstone Medical and Dental Centre’s in Somerset West.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee the availability of dental consumables and equipment while ensuring cost-effective usage
- Maintain a clean and sterile dental environment, ensuring strict adherence to infection control and sterilization protocols for instruments and equipment
- Take full responsibility for decisions, actions, and any omissions during patient care
- Uphold patient confidentiality, dignity, and safety at all times
- Ensure proper functioning of equipment and promptly report any malfunctions that may pose risks to patients or staff
- Ensure that all documentation complies with policies and legal requirements
- Manage laboratory-related tasks, including completing lab forms, coordinating the collection and return of work, and handling casting
- Operate within the defined scope of practice and knowledge base, staying up to date with current advancements to maintain proficiency
- Dispose of medical waste, human tissue, and medications in compliance with legal regulations
- Address and investigate any concerns raised to ensure safe dental practices
- Support the dentist in all clinical procedures following established branch guidelines.
Please kindly note that job candidates are required to provide their proof of vaccination status in order to apply for this opportunity.
Eligibility Criteria
First and foremost, you must familiarize yourself with the Intercare Job Vacancy as Dental Assistant’s eligibility standards. Each of these criteria will influence whether or not you would be an excellent candidate. In case you’d want to double-check your credentials, please refer to the list of qualifying prerequisites provided below. Ideally, if you want to enhance your chances of success, you should be able to meet all of the requirements on the following list.
The Intercare Job Vacancy as Dental Assistant Eligibility Criteria are as follows:
- Has a Grade 12 qualification
- Finished the necessary approved training course focusing on dental assisting (must combine bot training sessions and experience)
- Shows previous experience dealing in a customer service environment (preferable)
- Understands basic computer literacy (e.g. Microsoft Office)
- Has basic understanding of general dentistry principles (patient care, dentist treatment)
- Understands advanced knowledge in dental terminologies
- Understands what it requires to tend to infection control and sterilization
- Knows the treatment codes required in dentistry by performing the necessary treatment processes
- Understands dental procedures required in aesthetic dentistry
- Knows how to process billings using GoodX
- Currently processing their registration as Dental Assistant with HPCSA/or have already registered
- Shows proven fluency in English and Afrikaans.
Application Instructions
Apply online: Intercare Job Vacancy as Dental Assistant 2025.
It is recommended that you use Google Chrome to get access to the web site mentioned above.
Please fill out the application site with your most relevant responses by typing them into the appropriate areas. All of the personal information you submit should be accurate and correspond to your actual circumstances.
The information you provide will be reviewed by the whole selection committee, which will include you. As a result, you should double-check to ensure that there is no fictitious information. If there is any evidence that applicants are giving false information, they may be placed in a hazardous position.
In addition to their profile picture and Curriculum Vitae, candidates are asked to submit a handful of additional documents to their application (CV). These two pieces of documentation are critical and should be put together as soon as possible.
Your curriculum vitae should be in either PDF or Word format. Furthermore, it should be free of any handwriting or other markings.
By submitting your applications, you are granting permission to the selection committee to use your personal information for the purpose of registering you for the event.
Candidates are required to submit their applications via the website linked to above. Attempts to submit materials via other means, such as hand delivery or fax, will be rejected by the selection committee.
Closing Date
Applications for the Intercare Job Vacancy as Dental Assistant must be submitted before the closing date on 09 April 2025.
It is possible to guarantee that your application is protected as soon as possible by registering as soon as feasible. However, this does not guarantee immediate success and is just designed to give you with a stable position during the recruitment process.
Incomplete applications will not be accepted by the selection committee. Candidates that submit their applications after the deadline will not be considered. All submissions submitted after the deadline will be discarded without further consideration.
Announcements will only be made to shortlisted candidates. If you do not hear back from the selection committee within 3 weeks past the closing date, we regret to inform you that you have not been chosen for the job position.
Intercare has the right to offer or refuse employment to anybody at any time in its sole and absolute discretion. The decisions of the choosing committee are final and binding on all parties engaged in the process.
