Dental Assistant

Are you excited about a new and exciting opportunity Do you have a passion for working with families and individuals in need of healthcare housing and community support services Are you interested in working for a missiondriven and innovative organization Well look no further! At Community of Hope we envision Washington DC where everyone is healthy housed and hopeful. If you are ready to make a positive difference in the community this position is for you!

Our mission: To improve health end homelessness and partner with communities to make Washington DC more equitable.

Our Approach and Values:

We celebrate peoples strengths and acknowledge the impact of trauma on peoples lives.

We embrace diversity welcome all voices and treat everyone with respect and compassion.

We lead and advocate for changes to make systems more equitable.

We strive for excellence and value integrity in all that we do.

Position Summary: This Dental Assistant reports directly to the Dental Assistant Coordinator. This position is located at our Conway Health and Resource Center located in Washington DC but may be required to travel between our other DC sites as needed. We have both fulltime and parttime options available located at our Conway Health and Resource Center in SW DC.

The salary range for this position ranges between $24.51 $26.92 per hour and the offer amount is determined by the candidates education qualifications and experience. Indeed provides their own estimated salary calculator and is not affiliated with COHs range.

Highlighted Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides quality four handed chair side dental assistance during restorative endodontic periodontic prosthodontic and oral surgery procedures.
• Reviews daily and records medical history vital signs and patient consent in the dental electronic medical record.
• Serves daily as a patient advocate by ensuring that patients feel comfortable before during and after dental treatment.
• Takes and develops dental xrays daily and completes dental charting according to instruction given by the dentist.
• Promotes and maintains OSHA infection control standards daily.
• Performs daily dental chart review to ensure an accurate and timely workflow process.
• Ensures that the dentist has complete dental setups (armamentarium) prior to the initiation of dental treatment.
• Provides appropriate oral health education including nutritional counseling toothbrushing and flossing techniques to patients during visits.
• Performs daily sterilization of dental instruments and equipment. Maintains weekly sterilization logs per the standards and protocols.
• Performs monthly maintenance to ensure proper functioning of digital xray equipment and traditional xray processors.

• Must have a current unencumbered D.C. Dental Assisting License Level II
• Dental Assistant Diploma/Certification from an accredited program
• BLS Certification Required
• Xray Certification Required
• Bilingual in English and Spanish preferred.
• Ability to work in nonprofit environment;
• Ability to work weekends or evenings as needed required;
• Ability to travel to other COH sites as needed
• Participation in appropriate continuing dental education courses.
• All Health Staff must receive the required vaccinations. This includes annual flu and covid vaccines. Medical or religious exemptions may be requested.

At COH we prioritize the following wellbeing and worklife balancecentered benefits:

• Remote work opportunities are available for many but not all of our roles promoting a culture of worklife balance.
• 8hour workdays which include a paid lunch
• 11.5 paid company holidays 1 personal floating holiday 15 days of paid vacation (increases to 20 after 3 years of service 25 after 10 years of service and 30 after 15 years of service) and 12 days of paid sick leave on an annual basis
• Annual performancebased raises up to 5 of your annual pay
• National Health Service Corps (NHSC) and DC Health Professional Loan Repayment Program (DCHPLRP) participants
• Tuition reimbursement loan repayment for clinicians licensing reimbursement and continuing education unit funds for licensed staff
• Many opportunities for internal promotions and transfers across the agency as we continue to grow; we average 30 promotions each year
• Ongoing internal leadership training for supervisors
• Ongoing wellbeing activities culture compact activities and training and traumainformed care initiatives and training
• Medical/Dental/Vision Plans through CareFirst BlueCross Blue Shield
• Life insurance shortterm disability and longterm disability insurance
• 403(b) Retirement Plan
• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical and dependent care reimbursable expenses
• And much more!

About Us:

Community of Hope is a missiondriven innovative and rapidly growing nonprofit. For 45 years we have provided healthcare housing and community support services to make Washington DC more equitable. As a Federally Qualified Health Center we provide medical dental emotional wellness and care coordination services for the whole family at three locations in DC. Community of Hope also strongly emphasizes maternal and child health with midwifery practice and the only freestanding birth center in DC. In 2024 Community of Hope provided about 50000 medical visits 6300 dental visits and 17000 behavioral health visits for about 16000 patients. Community of Hope is also one of the largest providers of homelessness prevention and housing services for 1600 households1384 families and 220 individualsexperiencing homelessness in DC. Community support through Family Success Center our WIC nutrition centers and perinatal care coordination for pregnant people experiencing homelessness reach hundreds more families. We believe that everyone in DC can be healthy housed and hopeful.

We were selected as one of The Washington Post 150 Top Workplaces in 2024 and 6 other times since 2014 based on feedback from our staff.

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