Prison Dental Assistant - Clinic Care & Admin Support

Utmb; Bonham (TX); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

UTMB Health seeks a registered dental assistant to work within a correctional health setting in Texas. You will perform direct patient care, radiography, and dental laboratory tasks under supervision.

Responsibilities include assisting in preventive, restorative, endodontic, prosthodontic, and surgical procedures; maintaining clinic order and instrument sterilization; managing inventory; and scheduling patient visits with the dental scheduling program.

Qualifications

• Dental assistant registration must be current and continuously maintained with the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners.
• Must maintain a current CPR.

Responsibilities

• Takes and records patient health history and vital signs; performs radiography, dental laboratory procedures, inmate dental health orientation, and education.
• Provides assistance in preventive, periodontic, restorative, endodontic, prosthodontic, and oral surgery procedures; records clinical observations, treatment information, and data.
• Maintains general clinic orderliness and cleanliness; performs sterilization and disinfection of instruments and equipment; maintains inventory of instruments, needles and all hazardous materials stored and used in the dental clinic; logs for tracking and control purposes.
• Operates personal computers to enter and assimilate data, generate reports, draft routine correspondence, and develop special administrative analyses upon request.
• Executes some degree of complex administrative support duties involving the exercise of independent judgment under general supervision; performs administrative support tasks including but not limited to filing, routing phone calls/correspondence/mail, scanning, emailing, and faxing information.
• Operates data entry system for entry and receipt of daily sick call requests and schedules routine and sick call appointments for the dental clinic using the appropriate scheduling program. Prepares impressions and packages for delivery to the Dental Laboratory. Maintains a tracking log for all prosthetic cases.
• Receives, stores, distributes, and maintains proper inventory levels and stock for the dental department. Fills requisitions, work orders, supply requests, and returns expired/unused inventory to the warehouse. Checks contents received against invoices and purchase orders and reports discrepancies.
• Maintains and keeps an inventory of all dental equipment.
• Adheres to internal controls and reporting structures established for department.
• Performs related duties as required.

Skills

Patient care

Radiography

Clerical tasks

Education

Texas State Board of Dental Examiners registration

CPR certification

Job description

UTMB Health seeks a registered dental assistant to work within a correctional health setting in Texas. You will perform direct patient care, radiography, and dental laboratory tasks under supervision.

Responsibilities include assisting in preventive, restorative, endodontic, prosthodontic, and surgical procedures; maintaining clinic order and instrument sterilization; managing inventory; and scheduling patient visits with the dental scheduling program.