About The Dental Assistant Traineeship Initiative

Dental Health Services Victoria (DHSV) has partnered with Jobs Victoria offering exciting opportunities to start a career in the public oral health sector and complete a Certificate III in Dental Assisting, along with the paid experience and capability to build your future career.

The Role

You will work with The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne (RDHM) as part of a team providing general, specialist, and emergency dental care, including services for homebound and special needs individuals.

The Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne (RDHM) also collaborate with the University of Melbourne and RMIT University to educate and train future dental professionals.

What Is Offered

• 12 month fixed term employment, while you study
• All related Registered Training Organisation (RTO) enrolment and training fees are covered
• A dedicated support network who wants to see you succeed
• An integrated work and learning environment – you will be able to access paid study time and apply your learnings in an oral health environment
• Mentoring and supervision from qualified senior dental assistants
• Exciting parental leave benefits and professional development opportunities
• Salary packaging to suit you – a tax free amount of up to $15,900 p.a (mortgage, rent, or credit cards) and a further $2,500 p.a (meal, entertainment expenses and holiday accommodation) alongside generous reward programs from salary packaging providers
• Novated leasing available

The Dental Assistant Traineeship Initiative is open to all applicants, but preference will be given to specific priority groups below.

• Women over 45
• Young Victorians under 25
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
• Victorians living with disability
• People seeking asylum/refugees
• Newly arrived migrants from non-English speaking backgrounds
• Veterans
• Single parents
• People who are long-term unemployed
• Culturally and linguistically diverse people

About You

• Previous customer service experience is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Basic computer proficiency

How To Apply?

To submit your interest in our Dental Assistant Traineeship Initiative, click on Apply now and a member of our team at DHSV will then be in touch once we have reviewed your application. For any enquiries, please contact at

Applications will shut at 4pm on the 3rd of May 2024

At DHSV, we have a bold vision and we feel a great sense of responsibility to provide you with an environment where you can grow and feel like you belong. By building a workforce across Victoria that has inclusive representation at all levels, is proactive in tackling inequality and represents the diversity of the patients we care for, we will see meaningful and sustainable change.

DHSV is committed to child safety and wellbeing and has zero tolerance for child abuse and harm. We provide an inclusive and welcoming environment where cultural safety for children is promoted and practiced.

DHSV is a public health service and requires employees to be vaccinated in accordance with policies published by the Department of Health and/or public health orders issued by the government. The government requires all healthcare workers (which includes all DHSV employees) to be vaccinated for COVID-19.