Dental Assistant: Patient Care, X-Rays & Sterilization

Atchison Community Health Clinic, Inc.; Topeka (KS); On-site; USD 36,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Atchison Community Health Clinic, Inc. seeks a team-oriented dental assistant to support preventive and restorative dental care.

You will prepare treatment rooms, welcome patients, position them, and assist the dentist by passing instruments and taking intraoral x-rays. You will sterilize instruments, prepare materials, chart procedures, and maintain infection-control standards while keeping patient information confidential.

Qualifications

• Ability to work as a team member.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Ability to perform diagnostic procedures.
• Thorough and organized.
• Excellent verbal, listening and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Prepares treatment room for patient by following prescribed procedures and protocols.
• Prepares patient for dental treatment by welcoming, comforting, seating, draping patient, and taking intraoral x-rays if indicated.
• Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.
• Provides instrumentation by sterilizing and delivering instruments to treatment area; positioning instruments for dentist’s access; suctioning; passing instruments.
• Provides materials by selecting, mixing, and placing materials on instruments and in the patient’s mouth.
• Provides diagnostic information by exposing and developing radiographic images.
• Helps dentist manage dental and medical emergencies by maintaining CPR certification, emergency drug and oxygen supply, and emergency telephone directory.
• Educates patients by giving oral hygiene, plaque control, and postoperative instructions as indicated by procedures.
• Documents dental care services by charting in patient records.
• Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols.
• Ensures operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; following manufacturer’s instructions; troubleshooting malfunctions; calling for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories; evaluating new equipment and techniques.
• Maintains dental supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level and anticipating needed supplies.
• Conserve dental resources by using equipment and supplies as needed to accomplish job results.
• Contributes to team effort and represents clinic to community in a positive manner.
• Represents clinic to the community, patients, and others in a positive manner.

Skills

Team player

Attention to detail

Good communication

Diagnostic procedures

Job description

Atchison Community Health Clinic, Inc. seeks a team-oriented dental assistant to support preventive and restorative dental care.

You will prepare treatment rooms, welcome patients, position them, and assist the dentist by passing instruments and taking intraoral x-rays. You will sterilize instruments, prepare materials, chart procedures, and maintain infection-control standards while keeping patient information confidential.