Dental Assistant - DA - New Grads Welcome! - Bilingual Spanish - Darlington
Dental Assistant - DA
Darlington, WI
Requirements to Apply:
- Education: Dental Assistant Certificate from an accredited program
- Certifications: BLS from American Heart Association
- Years of experience: - New Grads Welcome! 1 year experience as a Dental Assistant preferred
- Preferred: Fluent Bilingual: English / Spanish
Schedule: Full Time - 36 Hours
- Monday - Thursday 8am-5pm and Friday 8am-12:30pm
Pay Rate: $19 - $23 an hour (Depending on experience)
- Up to an additional $1 an hour for Bilingual Spanish
Benefits: Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance, FSA, Life Insurance, PTO and more!
The Dental Assistant will assist the hygienists and dentists with clinical procedures and are responsible for a wide range of tasks in the dental clinic, including direct patient care, administrative duties, and laboratory functions consistent with professional standards and of the company's policies and procedures.
Responsibilities:
- Assists dentists in providing direct patient care, including tending to patient comfort.
- Seats patient, reviews health history, and takes and records blood pressure. Reviews need for pre-medication. Ensures patient electronic dental record available for dentist’s review.
- Attend hygienist appointments based in the community as scheduled by the community based dental team.
- Complete all trainings as required by the Children’s Healthcare Alliance
- Assists dentists with dental procedures including examinations, restorations, endodontics, oral surgery, and fixed and removable prosthetics.
- Completes coronal polishing and flossing as part of a dental prophylaxis. Provides oral hygiene instructions. Applies topical fluoride.
- Exposes radiographs.
- Takes alginate impressions; pours and trims models
- Assures operatories are disinfected and instruments are sterilized according to current CDC and OSHA guidelines.
- Responsible for stocking and tracking dental supplies.
- Prepares operatories and sets up procedure trays, organizing and laying out instruments for dentist use.
- Provides post-operative instructions as directed.
- Works as part of a team to assure patients are treated professionally and efficiently.
- Maintains dental equipment and operatories following daily, weekly, and monthly schedules.
- Accurately collects, records, and reports data as needed for report and program monitoring.
- Maintains patient dental records and other information as required.
Why Us?
We are a FQHC providing medical, dental and behavioral health services to underprivileged communities lacking access to care (particularly for those using Medicaid, Medicare, no insurance or low income individuals).