Our client is part of a large national dental group with well over 100 centres, and this centre is one of its long-established regional sites. It has built a loyal local patient base over more than a decade, and it is accredited, so you work in a centre that is run to a recognised standard rather than one you have to build up yourself.
The group's model suits dentists who want to practise clinically without running a business. You keep control of how you treat, and you have the group's marketing, CPD and practice systems behind you. For a newer graduate, the wider group also means access to mentoring, so you are not working it out alone.
About the Position
A well-regarded full-time dentist is leaving the centre, and our client needs a General Dentist to take over a busy, fully booked diary. Patients are booked about a month in advance, so you step into a loyal patient base and fill your day from the first week instead of waiting on a marketing pipeline.
This is broad general dentistry. The centre sees the full mix: check-ups and restorative work, crowns, endodontics, extractions, children's dentistry, dentures and prosthodontics, plus cosmetic work including veneers and Invisalign. It also runs daily emergency appointments, which keeps variety in your day. For a dentist coming from a metropolitan practice, that range of cases is the draw. You will be doing the work a city associate often has to refer out or hand to a specialist.
The centre is multi-surgery, so you work alongside colleagues and have chairside support rather than carrying a practice on your own. It is also a short walk from the local train station, which suits anyone relocating without a car and wanting to keep an easy link back to Melbourne.
Our client is open to recent Australian Dental Council graduates, and offers visa sponsorship for the right dentist. A fully booked diary is a strong place to build speed, confidence and a patient following in your first years.
Key Requirements
• Current, unrestricted AHPRA registration with the Dental Board of Australia as a dentist
• Australian dental degree, or completed Australian Dental Council pathway (recent ADC graduates welcome)
• Comfortable working independently across general dentistry
• Desirable: interest in cosmetic work, Invisalign or endodontics
• Visa sponsorship available for suitable candidates, so you do not need to hold permanent residency
About the Location
The centre is in East Gippsland, a regional hub on the edge of the Gippsland Lakes. It is a lifestyle move as much as a career move. Most of your time outside work is on the water, on the river or on the coast: the lakes, boating and fishing around Paynesville, the beaches near Lakes Entrance, and the high country behind it.
You get a genuine town, not a remote outpost. It has a regional hospital with an emergency department, three primary schools and two secondary schools, an airport, and the services you need for a family. The cost of living is the real change for a Melbourne dentist. Median house prices sit at roughly half the state median, so a deposit stretches to a home with a yard, and commuting means minutes, not an hour in traffic. If you do not drive, V/Line trains run from the local station back to Melbourne.
