Enable job alerts via email!

Registered Dental Assistant (RDA)

Wellpath / Correct Care Solutions

Salinas (CA)

On-site

USD 60,000 - 80,000

Full time

30 days ago

Boost your interview chances

Create a job specific, tailored resume for higher success rate.

Job summary

An established industry player in healthcare is seeking a Registered Dental Assistant to join their mission-driven team. This role is vital for providing compassionate care to underserved patients, ensuring accurate documentation of dental services, and assisting during dental procedures. The ideal candidate will thrive in a collaborative environment, demonstrating sound judgment and a commitment to infection control practices. With a focus on professional growth and a people-first culture, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of those in need. If you are passionate about making a difference in healthcare, this role is for you.

Benefits

DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Company paid life insurance
Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
Wellness program
Fitness memberships
Product discounts

Qualifications

  • Requires an Associate’s Degree or Certification in Dental Technology.
  • Must have experience as a Dental Technician or Registered Dental Assistant.

Responsibilities

  • Provides chair-side assistance during dental procedures.
  • Maintains cleanliness and sanitation of the dental clinic.

Skills

Infection Control Practices
Strong computer skills
Detail oriented
Sound judgment in dental decisions

Education

Associate’s Degree in Dental Technology
Certification in Dental Technology
Completion of Infection Control Course

Tools

Dental x-ray equipment
Autoclave
Dental unit(s)

Job description

Wellpath has been made aware of an ongoing hiring scam where individuals are falsely acting as Wellpath’s hiring team, in an effort to obtain private information or to induce applicants to pay a fee for services related to recruitment or training.

Please be aware of fictitious job openings, consulting engagements, solicitations, or employment offers from suspicious sources.

  • Wellpath will only send out emails from the “wellpath.us” email domain.
  • Wellpath does not perform interviews via text chats.
  • Wellpath does not reach out for any personal information via a LinkedIn account.
  • Wellpath does not charge an application, processing, or training fee at any stage of the recruitment or hiring process.
  • Wellpath does not request or require incoming team members to purchase any equipment.
  • Wellpath does not issue checks to incoming team members to purchase any equipment.
  • Wellpath does not hire any team members without a thorough video and/or in-person interview process with multiple stakeholders.

If you have any doubts about the authenticity of any messaging behalf of Wellpath, please send us an email at recruiting@Wellpath.us before taking any further action in relation to the correspondence.

We're on a path to better healthcare.
Join us
Viewing: Registered Dental Assistant (RDA)

Compensation Information: $28.8 - $32 / hour

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 Registered 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
  • Completion of Infection Control Course

Experience

  • Must have experience within either a private or public dental practice as a Dental Technician or Registered Dental Assistant
  • Knowledge of and experience with Infection Control Practices
  • Experience working with multiple providers
  • Strong computer skills, detail oriented, able to work independently
  • Must demonstrate consistent sound judgment with dental decisions within the correctional healthcare environment

Licenses/Certifications

  • Must have a Registered Dental Assistant Certificate
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain CPR certification.
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.

Get your free, confidential resume review.
or drag and drop a PDF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, or PAGES file up to 5MB.

Similar jobs

Registered Dental Assistant (RDA)

Wellpath

Salinas

On-site

USD 40,000 - 80,000

29 days ago

Registered Dental Assistant (RDA)

Galandental

San Jose

On-site

USD 40,000 - 70,000

30+ days ago

Registered Dental Assistant

PDS Health

Merced

On-site

USD 60,000 - 80,000

Today
Be an early applicant

Registered Dental Assistant

Salud Para La Gente, Inc.

Watsonville

On-site

USD 60,000 - 80,000

3 days ago
Be an early applicant

Dental Assistant

Aspen Dental

Gonzales

On-site

USD 60,000 - 80,000

Today
Be an early applicant

Dental Assistant II

CarolinasDentist

Spring Lake

On-site

USD 40,000 - 80,000

7 days ago
Be an early applicant

Dental Assistant

Sonrava Health

Salinas

On-site

USD 40,000 - 80,000

8 days ago

Dental Hygienist Recruiter

Aspen Dental

Chicago

Remote

USD 60,000 - 80,000

Today
Be an early applicant

Dental Hygienist Recruiter

Aspen Dental

Tennessee

Remote

USD 55,000 - 75,000

Today
Be an early applicant