NEEDED: DENTAL ASSISTANT

LOCATION: 2425 S 200th St, SeaTac, WA 98198

SCHEDULE: 8 hours per day, 5 days per week, excluding Federal Holidays. Work hours will normally be between 5:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. with a 30-minute unpaid lunch break. These hours may be adjusted to meet the needs of the institution; but shall not normally exceed 40 hours per week.

QUALIFICATIONS: Failure to submit evidentiary documentation of certifications, licenses, qualifications may result in elimination from consideration.

• Must have successfully completed an approved Dental Assistant training program that satisfies the WA State Department of Health training or experience requirements.
• Must hold a current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a Dental Assistant from the State of Washington.
• Must have at least 6 months of applicable experience as evidenced on their resume,
• Provide two (2) letters of reference
• Provide proof of current CPR certification.
• Possess knowledge of methods, techniques, and procedures to perform job activities on various types of medical equipment and automated systems.
• Possess knowledge of safety principles and infection control in the patient care environment.
• Possess the ability to relate and deal effectively with Physicians, Dentists, peers, inmates, and others; and, to recognize, report, and record changes in patient's physical and emotional condition.

JOB DUTIES:

Infection Control:

• Will function as infection control coordinator for the dental clinic.
• Responsible for ensuring that all work surfaces, equipment, materials, and instruments are properly disinfected/sterilized.
• Must be knowledgeable in the most current approved methods and supplies for effective disinfection/sterilization. This is especially important for those patients with highly infectious diseases.
• Be able to operate all equipment necessary to complete this task.

Oral Surgery:

• Evaluate procedure to be performed.
• Prepare anesthetic and appropriate instruments with sterile technique and drapes, evacuate surgical field, retract tissue, irrigate bone structure during rotary instrumentation, trim inter-dental papillae, cut sutures, pack surgical sites, remove sutures, treat localized osteitis, and give post-surgical instructions.

Operative Procedures:

• Prepare operative environment, anesthetics, and instruments utilizing sterile technique.
• Maintain dry operative field; retract tissue; place bases, liners, and retainers with matrices; place, pack, and polish amalgam restoration; and place temporary restorative materials.

Prosthetics:

• Select appropriate trays and impression materials, take primary impression for study models, and fabricate secondary trays and stabilized base plates with bite rims.
• Pour and trim all models and make minor denture repairs.

Radiology:

• Take and develop infra- and extra-oral radiographs, including bite wings and periapical films.
• Must also operate and process specialized panoramic equipment and films.
• Maintain and use automated processing equipment.

Endodontics:

• Place rubber dam, sterilize field, remove temporary filling with rotary slow-speed instrument, irrigate canals, and prepare appropriate medicaments.

Preventive:

• Applies desensitizing agents. Instructs patients in improving their oral hygiene.
• Performs coronal polishing.

Clerical Duties:

• Establishes dental records and is responsible for the control of medical records while they are in the dental clinic.
• Responsible for the scheduling of patients, preparing the callouts, and supervising inmate patients.

Administrative responsibilities unique to the position.

• Making statistical tabulation of all treatment rendered in the dental clinic and epidemiological statistics of inmates admitted to the facility.
• Prepares quarterly and annual reports to the Bureau from these statistics and other dental clinic activity.
• May also perform secretarial/clerical duties for the Chief Dental Officer.

Dental Lab:

• Pour impressions, trim resulting models, and do initial preparation of lab prescription forms to be sent out.
• Responsible for sending and receiving all lab cases sent to Regional Lab and all resultant paperwork.

Acrylic work:

• Including, but not limited to, minor denture repair, custom tray fabrication, wrought wire partial, relines, and rebases.
• Fabricates bite guards and surgical stints as required by the department.

Supply:

• Maintains adequate stock levels of the expendable supplies used in the clinic.
• Prepares purchase requests for the purpose of ordering additional supplies.

Equipment:

• Responsible for maintenance and minor repair of dental equipment.

BENEFITS:  Competitive hourly pay rate, accrued vacation, accrued sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays, 401K opportunity, and healthcare benefits contribution.