Dental Assistant Jail Part Time

Wellpath; Waukesha (WI); Sur place; USD 32 594 - 36 217; Temps partiel

Avantages offerts par ce poste

DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!

Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships

Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling

Company paid life insurance

Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)

Wellness program featuring fitness memberships

Résumé du poste

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a part-time Dental Assistant to provide essential patient care in a correctional environment. This role involves maintaining dental records, assisting with procedures, and ensuring the clinic's sanitation. Ideal candidates will have an Associate's degree or certification in dental technology and experience in the dental field. Join our mission-driven team to make a significant impact in the lives of underserved individuals while enjoying support and growth opportunities.

Qualifications

• Must have experience as a Dental Technician or Registered Dental Assistant.
• Requires consistent sound judgment in a correctional healthcare setting.
• Must obtain and maintain CPR certification.

Responsabilités

• Provide chair-side assistance during dental procedures.
• Perform intra-oral and extra-oral x-rays, developing and mounting films.
• Maintain dental clinic cleanliness and sanitation.

Connaissances

Experience in dental practice

Sound judgment in dental decisions

Ability to maintain dental records

Skill in x-ray procedures

Formation

Associate’s Degree or Certification in Dental Technology

Description du poste

We're on a path to better healthcare. Join us

Compensation Information: $23.66 - $26.29 / hour

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You Matter

Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved. Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture. Excellent career growth opportunities.

Join us and find a career that supports: Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Autonomy in a warm team environment. Growth and training.

Perks and Benefits

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:

• DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

How you make a difference

The Dental Assistant is responsible for providing documentation of dental services to the dentist or their designee. This involves maintaining dental charts, keeping records of dental findings, and scheduling patients for dental appointments. By ensuring the accurate documentation of dental services, dental assistants enable dentists to monitor the provision of dental services and provide the best possible care to their patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides chair-side assistance during dental procedures, sterilizes instruments, and mixes restorative materials as needed.
• Performs intra-oral and extra-oral x-rays, develops and mounts x-ray films.
• Maintains x-ray, processor, autoclave, and dental unit(s) according to specifications.
• Manages inventory of supplies and equipment, orders supplies and ensures set up of trays for patients.
• Completes daily instrument count sheet, performs dental screenings, and maintains cleanliness and sanitation of dental clinic through careful practices.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education

• Requires an Associate’s Degree or Certification in Dental Technology from an accredited school.

Experience

• Must have experience within either a private or public dental practice as a Dental Technician or Registered Dental Assistant.
• Must demonstrate consistent sound judgment with dental decisions within the correctional healthcare environment.

Licenses/Certifications

• Must be able to obtain and maintain CPR certification.

Additional Details

Every Tuesday and Wednesday from 0800-1300. No weekend. 10hrs per week.

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.