Dental Assistant: Chairside Expert & Radiography Support

Providence Community Health; Providence (RI); On-site; USD 42,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Providence Community Health is seeking a dental assistant to provide comprehensive chair-side support during dental procedures and assist in daily clinic operations. This role includes preparing and sterilizing instruments, maintaining supplies, and coordinating patient administration.

The ideal candidate will have formal dental assisting education or relevant experience, computer literacy, and basic knowledge of third-party payer processes.

Qualifications

• Completion of a dental assisting program or 12–18 months of dental assisting experience and/or training or an equivalent combination of both.
• Computer literacy.
• Basic third party payer knowledge, gained through education or experience

Responsibilities

• Provide chair-side assistance to dentist and/or dental hygienist in operative, preventive, periodontal, endodontic, prosthetic, and oral surgical procedures.
• Prepare, sterilize, organize and set up dental instruments and equipment; ensure instruments are cleaned, dated, and processed per clinic guidelines.
• Monitor and maintain dental equipment such as compressors, evacuator systems, radiographic developing equipment, sterilizers, and light-curing units.

Skills

Computer literacy

Payer knowledge

Education

Dental assisting program

12–18 months dental assisting experience/training

Job description

Providence Community Health is seeking a dental assistant to provide comprehensive chair-side support during dental procedures and assist in daily clinic operations. This role includes preparing and sterilizing instruments, maintaining supplies, and coordinating patient administration.

The ideal candidate will have formal dental assisting education or relevant experience, computer literacy, and basic knowledge of third-party payer processes.