Job description
JOB CODE: | DE090001 | EEO Job Class: | 3640, Dental Assistants
CENSUS CODE: | 9 | EEO Job Group: | 14 Service Workers
FLSA STATUS: | Non-Exempt
REPORTS TO: | Clinically – Dentist. Administratively – Health Services Administrator
SUPERVISES: | None
DATE CREATED: | February 2013
LAST REVISED: | April 2016, August 2019
The Dental Assistant provides required documentation of services to the Dentist or designee in order to monitor the provision of dental services. This includes maintaining dental charts, keeping records of dental findings, and scheduling patients for dental appointments.
Education:
- Requires an Associate’s Degree or Certification in Dental Technology from an accredited school.
Experience:
- Must have experience within either a private or public dental practice as a Dental Technician or Registered Dental Assistant
- Must demonstrate consistent sound judgment with dental decisions within the correctional healthcare environment.
Licenses/Certifications:
- Must be able to obtain and maintain CPR certification.
- Compliance
KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Utilizes standard precautions during all dental encounters where applicable
- Provides chair-side assistance by maintaining clear field of operation, passing instruments, suctioning, etc. as needed
- Sterilizes instruments utilized in the dental office
- Mixes restorative materials as required
- Assists in performing of intra-oral and extra-oral x-rays
- Develops and mounts x-ray films as needed
- Performs intra-oral tasks with dentist supervision
- Maintains x-ray unit, processor, autoclave and dental unit(s) according to specifications
- Notifies H.S.A if equipment is not in appropriate working order
- Inventories supplies and equipment maintaining adequate levels as indicated
- Orders supplies and equipment
- Ensures that sufficient number of trays is set up for the day’s patients; pulpotomy, caries control, amalgam, and perio/scaling
- Maintains cleanliness and sanitation of dental clinic through careful sanitation practices
- Completes daily instrument count sheet – maintaining security control of all instruments within the dental office
- If daily instruments count is incorrect, they complete reports to Security and H.S.A
- Performs dental screenings as directed
- Completes weekly: Cleans developer, cleans autoclave, prepares weekly report
- Must obtain and maintain security clearance
- Must be able to apply principles of critical thinking to a variety of practical and emergent situations and accurately follow standardized procedures that may call for deviations.
- Must be able to apply sound judgment beyond a specific set of instructions and apply knowledge to different factual situations.
- Must be alert at all times; pay close attention to details.
- Must be able to work under stress on a regular or continuous basis.
- Post orders, if applicable, per site contract.
Works in a clean well-lit environment with fluctuating temperatures. Requires substantial periods of work utilizing a computer, monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Requires lifting and carrying equipment and supplies weighing up to 35 pounds; requires pushing and pulling equipment and supplies weighing up to 75 pounds; requires walking and standing; requires sitting; requires the ability to negotiate stairs; requires the ability to lift patients in and out of bed, wheelchair, and/or stretcher; requires the ability to reach or bend frequently; requires visual acuity and manual dexterity to operate equipment. Potential for exposure to blood and/or body substances and hazardous materials requiring observance of Standard Precautions and safe handling practices.
This job primarily operates independently in a facility. This job is performed in a correctional facility, client site or counseling center including minimum, medium or maximum security levels. Employees are exposed to some level of risk and/or harm by inmates including exposure to blood borne pathogens. Employee is expected to work in accordance with all security rules and regulations to minimize the risk of danger and/or harm to themselves or other employees. This position may require travel depending on specific needs.
This job description is not to be construed as a complete listing of the duties and responsibilities that may be given to any employee. The duties and responsibilities outlined in this position may be added to or changed when deemed appropriate and necessary by the person who is managerially responsible for this position.
About Wellpath:
Patients are at the center of everything we do. With more than 15,000 clinicians and professionals in 34 states across the U.S. and Australia, Wellpath delivers high-quality medical, mental and behavioral healthcare services to nearly 300,000 patients located in inpatient and residential treatment facilities, civil commitment centers, and local, state and federal correctional facilities. We deliver care in a variety of clinical environments, from local government correctional facilities that look like Urgent Care Clinics/Emergency Rooms, to state government facilities more focused on Chronic Care Management, to behavioral hospitals focused on caring for people who suffer from mental illness, to community care centers servicing the community. In all settings, our doctors, nurses, mental health clinicians, and staff work tirelessly to implement evidence-based clinical best practices with the goal of compassionately improving the medical and behavioral healthcare outcomes of our patients. We believe in transforming public health by delivering hope and healing to those who need it most.
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