Dental Assistant Apprentice with Federal VET Diploma

About the job

Trainees, students, apprentices

Dental Assistant Apprentice with Federal VET Diploma

Do you enjoy patient contact, precision, and teamwork? Keen to learn in a modern technical environment at the heart of a university hospital? Join the Dental Medicine Service at CHUV on 16 August 2027!

Context

The Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) is one of the five Swiss university hospitals and ranks among the best hospital institutions worldwide according to the Newsweek 2025 ranking. Thanks to its collaboration with the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the University of Lausanne and EPFL, it plays a leading role in care, research, and education.

The Dental Medicine Service provides all dental care services (prevention, basic care, prosthetics, implantology, surgery, and aesthetic treatments) for adults and children. You will work in a motivated and multicultural team of about 50 collaborators, within 10 surgeries and a high-quality technical platform (varied care and prophylaxis activities, emergency appointments).

Mission

The training objectives aim to develop comprehensive mastery of clinical, relational, and organisational skills necessary for the profession:

• Reception, communication, and administrative management: The learner acquires the skills needed to welcome patients, reassure anxious individuals, manage telephone reception, assess the urgency of situations, and wisely plan the consultation schedule.
• Clinical assistance and chairside work: The course prepares for the systematic anticipation of the practitioner’s needs during treatments. This includes preparing specific instruments, direct assistance (four-handed dentistry), mixing restorative and impression materials, as well as performing and integrating digital radiographic images under medical supervision.
• Hygiene, asepsis, and infection prevention: The training ensures strict mastery of health safety protocols. The learner learns to clean, disinfect, and sterilise equipment as well as to treat the dental unit after each intervention, in compliance with regulatory guidelines (HPCI and Swissmedic).
• Patient record management and traceability: Emphasis is placed on administrative rigour, including secure updating of digital records, monitoring procedures, and complete traceability of sterilisation processes.
• Logistics and consumables management: The learner is trained in stock management (medicines, care products, and consumables), equipment control, and placing orders to ensure the smooth running of the care structure.

Profile

• You have completed your compulsory schooling
• You are attentive, show tolerance and respect in patient relations
• You have manual dexterity, attention to detail, and impeccable hygiene
• You are reliable, rigorous, organised, and comfortable prioritising in a dynamic environment
• You have completed at least one internship in a dental practice
• You appreciate teamwork, know how to communicate, and respect medical confidentiality
• Fluent French; a second language (English/German) is an asset.

We offer

By joining CHUV as an apprentice, you benefit from:

• A comprehensive, varied, and professional training at the heart of a university hospital
• Close supervision provided by experienced trainers
• The possibility to continue your professional career at CHUV after apprenticeship, subject to available places
• Active support to develop your talents, with the opportunity to be selected for SwissSkills, the national skills competition, when the edition matches your cohort
• And many benefits reserved for apprentices (meals, transport discounts, social network, etc.)

Contact and application submission

Interested? Send us your application:

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• School reports from the last three years
• Any internship reports

Contact and application submission:

Contact for information about the position: For any information regarding the position, please contact Ms Samela Sulejmani, Apprenticeship Coordinator, at 021 314 81 80.

As all our applications are processed electronically, we kindly ask you to apply exclusively online by clicking the APPLY button at the bottom of the announcement.

If you have difficulty applying, you can consult our procedure on how to apply online. If for technical reasons you cannot apply online, please contact our Recruitment Unit, which will assist you in your process, either by email at e.recrutement@chuv.ch or by phone at 021 314 85 70.

CHUV applies the highest quality standards in its recruitment processes. Furthermore, committed to promoting diversity among our collaborators, we are attentive to different life paths and do everything possible to ensure equal treatment and prevent any discrimination. We look forward to receiving your application.