Dental Assistant (Weekend Availability)

About the role

Improve the overall health of the communities we serve by assisting providers in providing dental care to patients.

Responsibilities

• Greets and escorts patient to assigned dental chair.
• Reviews and updates patient charts.
• Assists dental provider with required procedures, exams, and patient education per scope of practice according to Washington State Department of Health.
• Takes x-rays, as needed.
• Ensures dental exam areas are clean, stocked, and ready for patients.
• Cleans, prepares, and sterilizes instruments.
• Answers phones and schedules patients, as needed.
• Observes and follows required safety protocols, including handling and disposal of sharps, use of personal protective equipment, exposure to blood borne pathogens, and general safety of employees and patients.
• Obtains vitals including blood pressure and blood glucose measurements on indicated patients per CHAS Health protocol.
• Performs other duties assigned, including supporting the CHAS Health Mission and Core Values.

Qualifications

• Education/Experience: Completion of accredited dental assisting program or CHAS Health dental assistant training or apprentice program required. Dental Assisting National Board (DANB) certification preferred. Clarkston and Moscow clinics may consider a minimum of 3 years’ experience in lieu of accredited program completion.
• Licensure: Washington clinics: Valid Dental Assistant Registration licensure in state of Washington required at time of hire. Idaho clinics: Valid Dental Assistant Registration licensure in state of Washington required within 120 days of hire.
• Skills: BLS (CPR/AED) required. Valid driver’s license and insurance required. Commitment to supporting a safe and respectful environment is required.

Physical Demands

• Must regularly move around the facility and sit, stand, and be mobile.
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and to reach with hands and arms.
• Occasionally required to climb, bend, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch.
• Regularly required to communicate by talking/hearing.
• Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.

Benefits

• Annual milestone bonus for all eligible employees: $500 for every year worked, up to $5,000.
• Robust health coverage with employer-offered medical, dental, vision, long-term care, and life insurance.
• 401(k) with up to 6% employer match.
• More than six (6) weeks of paid time off (PTO) annually for full-time employees.
• Tuition assistance and student loan repayment.
• Up to $7,500 for childcare annually through reimbursement.
• CME and license fee reimbursement.

Pay

$23.75 – $33.86