Dental Assistant
Dental Assistant
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Job Description
Cornerstone Family Healthcare is actively recruiting for a Dental Assistant to join our growing Dental team in Newburgh NY.
RATE OF PAY/SALARY: $23.00 $26.00 per hour
WORK LOCATION(S): Newburgh NY (Travel required to other Cornerstone sites)
STATUS: Full Time
CORNERSTONE BENEFITS: Competitive salaries I Health Benefits I Retirement plan I Paid Time Off I Sick Time I Flexible Spending I Dependent Care I Paid Holidays
CORNERSTONES MISSION: Cornerstone Family Healthcare is a nonprofit Federally Qualified Health Center with a mission to provide high quality comprehensive primary and preventative health care services in an environment of caring dignity and respect to all people regardless of their ability to pay. For more than fifty years Cornerstone has been responsive to meeting the needs of the communities in which we serve with a continued emphasis on the underserved and those without access to health care regardless of race economic status age sex sexual orientation or disability.
JOB SUMMARY:
- Provide chair side assistance to the dental providers during examination and treatment of patients.
- Prepare patients and operatory for dental treatment including but not limited to preparing and arranging the dental instruments restorative cement materials and medications on the chair side tray.
- Sterilize instruments and equipment by using autoclave or chemical disinfectants as per CORNERSTONE infection control policies and OSHA guidelines.
- Take develop mount and file xrays.
- Provide postoperative instructions and followup appointments for patients.
- Perform laboratory procedures by fabricating models from impressions taken by the dentist.
- Monitor patients prosthesis by logging cases leaving CORNERSTONE and returning from Dental Lab.
- Provide appointments for patients when prosthesis returns.
- Maintain orderly well stocked and clean treatment rooms and lab.
- Assists the front office with patient registration filing and pulling charts and making confirmation appointment calls as directed by the Dental Office Coordinator.
- Provide intake procedures such as to obtain patients past and present medical histories vital signs and record correct information in patients dental record.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Dental Assistant Certificate and at least 2 years of experience working as a dental assistant
- or 4 years of experience working as a Dental Assistant without a Dental Assistant Certificate
- Current BLS certification
- Bilingual preferred
- Travel to other Dental Cornerstone sites required
- Dental Assistant Certificate and at least 2 years of experience working as a dental assistant
- or 4 years of experience working as a Dental Assistant without a Dental Assistant Certificate
- Current BLS certification
- Bilingual Highly preferred
- Must be willing and able to travel
Employment Type
Full-Time
