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What this job is
Dental Receptionists keep a dental practice running smoothly from the front desk. The core work involves scheduling patient appointments, managing phone and online enquiries, processing payments, and maintaining accurate patient records. You also act as the link between patients and clinical staff, passing on information and making sure people know what to expect before and after treatment. Some practices ask receptionists to handle health fund claims and Medicare billing, so attention to detail matters. The role sits inside the health administration space rather than clinical dentistry, which means no dental qualifications are required to get started.
Pay
A$1,539 a week
This is the median for full-time employees who are not managers and are paid at the adult rate, before tax and salary sacrifice. It is a guide to what the work pays, not a wage rate.
Source: ABS Survey of Employee Earnings and Hours, May 2025, customised report.
What this role asks for
- Apply safety procedures in laboratorycore
- Archive healthcare users' recordscore
- Attention to Detailcore
- Automated analysers in the medical laboratorycore
- Blood type classificationcore
- Check the received biological samplescore
- Conduct routine blood testingcore
- Confidentiality and Privacy Compliancecore
- Data Entry and Accuracycore
- Examine cell specimens microscopicallycore
- Health Record Administrationcore
- Health Terminology Literacycore
- Identify patients' medical recordscore
- Incident Reportingcore
- Policy and Procedure Adherencecore
- Problem Solvingcore
- Quality Assurance and Checkingcore
- Record Managementcore
- Regulatory and Legislative Awarenesscore
- Team Collaborationcore
- Time Management and Prioritisationcore
- Analyse blood samples
- Analyse cell cultures
- Assist in the production of laboratory documentation
- Basic Arithmetic and Numerical Accuracy
- Biological chemistry
- Blood collection on babies
- Calibrate laboratory equipment
- Carry out flow cytometry
- Carry out quality control in microbiology laboratories
- Clinical biochemistry
- Clinical cytology
- Continuous Learning and Upskilling
- Digital Literacy
- Process Improvement Identification
- Report Writing
- Risk Identification
- Verbal Communication
- Workload Self-Management
- Written Communication