Dental Assistant

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The Dental Assistant provides appropriate patient care while working hand in hand with the Dentist for in-clinic work. The Dental Assistant will do this by helping to address the needs of the patient in order to be successful with overall health and wellness. Salary begins at $20.45 per hour depending on experience.

Candidates must reside within NorthLakes' service area at the time of hire and maintain residency throughout employment.

Responsibilities:

• Receive and prepare patient for treatment.
• Take digital dental x-rays to help aid the dentist in proper diagnosis of oral health condition.
• Charts conditions of decay and disease for diagnosis and treatment by dentist.
• Place fluoride varnish to help in the prevention of oral health disease.
• Sterilize and disinfect instruments, set up instrument trays, prepare materials, and assist dentist during dental procedures.
• Makes preliminary impressions for study casts and occlusal registrations for mounting study casts.
• Pours, trims, and polishes models, fabricates custom impression trays from preliminary impressions, cleans and polishes removable appliances, and fabricates temporary crowns.
• Knowledge of Scope of Practice per Wisconsin Dental Assistant statues.
• Demonstrate knowledge of ethics, jurisprudence, and patient confidentiality.
• Demonstrate understanding of the OSHA Hazard Communication standard.
• Demonstrate understanding of the OSHA Blood borne Pathogens standard.
• Demonstrate understanding of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
• Perform sterilization and disinfection procedures in compliance with policy and procedures.
• Understand insurance guidelines for allowable services and treatment frequency.
• Apply effective communication techniques with a variety of patients.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

One year certificate from college or technical school; or three or more months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. DANB certification preferred.

Required Credentials, Certification, Licensure:

Current CPR Certification. OR Dental Assistant candidates must be eligible for full credentialing with partnering hospital system.

NorthLakes Community Clinic Organizational Competencies:

Mission Driven - Advances the organizational mission, vision, and values in executing job duties.

Customer Service - Committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets proper customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met.

Quality - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.

Creativity - Generates new ideas, supports change, provides innovative solutions, solves problems creatively.

Integrity - Earns the trust and confidence of coworkers and customers through honest communication, ethical behavior, and professionalism in all interactions.

Teamwork - Contributes to meeting team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team to meet goals, welcomes newcomers and promotes a cooperative team atmosphere.

Self-Development - Seeks out and accepts feedback, is a proactive learner, takes on tough assignments to improve skills, keeps knowledge and skills up-to-date, turns mistakes into learning opportunities.

Job Knowledge - Understands duties and responsibilities, possesses necessary job knowledge and technical skills, maintains job knowledge current.

Communication - Understand and communicate effectively with others using a variety of contexts and formats, which include writing, speaking, reading, listening, and interpersonal skills.

Dependability - Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements.

Trauma/Resilience Informed - Understands that trauma is prevalent and resilience can be cultivated and improved; and operates in a manner consistent with these principles.