Watch now to discover how ANCI is changing the dental assistant jobs search game and how you can more efficiently find your next dental assistant job in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and other cities.
I get paid in a few days, not a few weeks like before. Love the app, ANCI.
- Dental Nurse, Wollongong
What makes working satisfying is that I can set my own rate and choose my own jobs. I get paid what I want, and I can say no if I want. No more nasty txts from recruitment staff if I say no.
- Dental Nurse, Gold Coast

Quickly create your ANCI Job Seeker profile and input your dental skills and qualifications. Always view only the jobs which match your location and profession.

Get notified by text or email when new jobs matching your profile are listed on ANCI. Pick the jobs you really want and apply simply and easily for them.

Once you get selected, complete the job, and on completion simply send the business a quick timesheet recording your hours via the app.

Once the Business has approved your in-app timesheet, your funds get released fast into your bank account. Finding short term work has never been easier.
You’ve probably already noticed a shift in the way dentists manage staff in recent years. Practices are opening for extended hours, offering a range of complementary treatments and have visiting specialists on a rotational roster.
However, while the range of services the dental industry is offering have increased, there’s also been a reduction in permanent fulltime positions. Yet, short term positions are on the rise, resulting in increasing demand for dental recruitment agencies to fill temp positions to meet the demands of patients – particularly those agencies who specialise in placing ancillary dental temp staff.
New, innovative, services like ANCI are also quickly filling the void to ensure short-term dental assistant jobs get filled quickly at short notice.
Read on for more info regarding localised dental assistant jobs trends around Australia.
The majority of advertised jobs are for part time or casual employees and the full-time jobs will usually include a weekend or evening rotational roster. Hours on offer average 30 hours per week. There is a demand for highly experienced staff for even the most casual positions in Melbourne.
Jobseekers in Sydney are finding that advertised positions average three to four days a week and hourly rates on the postings are usually for broad ranges like $30-$50 per hour making it hard to know exactly what you’ll be making before you apply.
Current trends in Brisbane show that on the contemporary job boards, many of the roles advertised are for junior positions or for an all rounder generalist rather than specialist skills or positions. Again, there is an emphasis on casual over permanent or part time positions.
In Adelaide, most positions are casual but with less hours on offer than you’ll see in some of the bigger cities. Listings tend to be for “10-15 hours per week” or purely filling after hours shifts like Thursday nights and Saturdays.
Across the nation, Perth tends to be advertising for more specified part time roles that can vary from a set number of days or hours depending on the employer. As with other cities, there is an emphasis on general skills that can be spread across many facets of the practice from customer service through to assisting the dentists.
With permanent full-time positions hard to come by, it is likely that you will be combining multiple casual or part time positions to make up a full time equivalent wage and will probably also need to consider temping.
Most healthcare support staff have at least one “temp agency horror story”. From being expected to drop everything at short notice to fill a shift or risk not being offered more from that recruiter to trekking across town and spending almost as much time commuting to short term jobs as you do working them, often the arrangements are only flexible for the recruitment agency and not the workers or dental practices.
There is a way to find short-term dental placements without being at the mercy of an agency. ANCI is a new app that directly connects practices with workers. It’s free to download and for jobseekers to use, and you can set your availability around your other work (and lifestyle) commitments.
You can even review what other workers have said about practices before you accept positions which is a feature you definitely don’t get with agencies or even the average casual job advertisement!
While ANCI can be a great way to fill the gaps between your regular casual work and a full-time wage, there are also a number of dental support staff users who have decided to exclusively work for themselves via the app.
It takes just minutes to set up your profile and you can start expressing your interest in jobs straight away.