Correctional Dental Assistant – On-Site, Full-Time

Fidelity Partners; Herlong (CA); On-site; USD 39,000 - 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Fidelity Partners seeks a Dental Assistant to provide chair-side, radiographic, sterilization, preventive, records, and clinical support at FCI Herlong. Two full-time Dental Assistants are needed to support restorative care, oral surgery, periodontics, prosthetics, examinations, emergencies, and other authorized services in a secure correctional setting.

The role requires specialty training/certification, radiology and safety training, CPR certification, and at least two years of experience.

Qualifications

• Must possess specialty dental-assisting training provided by a licensed dentist and/or certification from an accredited Dental Assistant school.
• Training must include dental radiology and radiation safety.
• Must maintain current CPR certification through the American Red Cross or American Heart Association.
• Must have at least two years of experience providing Dental Assistant services.
• Must be able to collect and track data, enter information in the agency's electronic system, support patient scheduling, and maintain confidential patient records.
• Must be able to work professionally with an inmate population representing varied cultural, regional, racial, and ethnic backgrounds.
• Bilingual oral communication skills and experience in a clinical correctional setting are preferred but not required.
• Must satisfy all BOP/DOJ background, institutional-security, suitability, residency, and access requirements.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Dental Officer with restorative dentistry, oral surgery, periodontics, prosthetics, examinations, and emergency cases.
• Retrieve dental records, prepare treatment rooms, seat patients, and prepare patients for the attending Dental Officer.
• Prepare and pass instruments, materials, medications, and supplies; retract tissue; irrigate the oral cavity; and operate suction equipment.
• Observe patient responses, assist with dismissal, and provide instructions for subsequent appointments as directed.
• Document treatment accurately in electronic and paper dental records and support patient-care scheduling and data tracking.
• Provide dental-health education and perform dental screening, charting, prophylaxis, temporary fillings, or other expanded functions only when appropriately credentialed and authorized.
• Prepare patients for periodontal procedures and place or remove packs and rubber dams as directed and permitted.
• Clean, sharpen, disinfect, and sterilize instruments and manage contaminated biological waste according to infection-control requirements.
• Inspect and maintain dental equipment, perform minor authorized repairs, and report defective equipment promptly.
• Take diagnostic dental radiographs using standard and digital equipment, position patients correctly, minimize radiation exposure, and save images to patient records.
• Perform radiographic quality assurance and maintain infection-control procedures during imaging.
• Make primary impressions, pour casts, select shades, and assist with fabrication or repair of removable dental prostheses as authorized.
• Maintain patient confidentiality, professional boundaries, and compliance with BOP security and correctional healthcare procedures.
• Wear navy-blue scrubs or professional attire appropriate to the correctional environment; scrubs are preferred.

Skills

Data entry

Scheduling support

Inmate population handling

Bilingual communication

Education

Dental assistant certification

Dental radiology training

CPR certification (ARC/AHA)

Tools

Electronic records system

Job description

Fidelity Partners seeks a Dental Assistant to provide chair-side, radiographic, sterilization, preventive, records, and clinical support at FCI Herlong. Two full-time Dental Assistants are needed to support restorative care, oral surgery, periodontics, prosthetics, examinations, emergencies, and other authorized services in a secure correctional setting.

The role requires specialty training/certification, radiology and safety training, CPR certification, and at least two years of experience.