CHAS Health is hiring: Dental Assistant in Clarkston
CHAS Health, Clarkston, WA, United States, 99403
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If you are looking to foster a fulfilling career path while serving your community, you are in the right place. All careers at CHAS Health allow you to make an impact on patient’s lives and our greater community. No matter what clinic or location you join, you become a part of the bigger picture – providing trustworthy, patient-centered, and attentive care to anyone who walks through our doors. We continue to expand operations and are regularly looking for talented and dedicated individuals to help us continue to make a difference in patient lives. Challenging the status quo starts with you – get started today.
Everyone Welcome
From the beginning, we strongly believe that all people have the right to high-quality health care. Our goal is to remove barriers to care and provide high-quality, evidence-based care in a place that is convenient – in your neighborhood. We believe everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect regardless of their situation.
Compensation Range
$23.75 - $33.86
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Job Description
Purpose of Job:
Improve the overall health of the communities we serve by assisting providers in providing dental care to patients as follows:
Essential Duties And 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.
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.
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: List required first and then preferred. 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. Must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Our core values are our foundation, the guiding sense of direction for our organization:
- Social Responsibility
- Patient-Centered
- Entrepreneurship
- Respect for Human Dignity
- Commitment to Continuous Quality Improvement
- Fun
In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at CHAS Health will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. CHAS Health does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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