Wellpath is hiring: Dental Assistant in Santa Maria

PRN Position (as needed) to work at both the Santa Maria and Santa Barbara locations
Our Dental Assistants are 75% administrative roles and 25% patient care roles

How you make a difference:
The Dental Assistant is responsible for providing documentation of dental services to the dentist or their designee. This involves maintaining dental charts, keeping records of dental findings, and scheduling patients for dental appointments. By ensuring the accurate documentation of dental services, dental assistants enable dentists to monitor the provision of dental services and provide the best possible care to their patients.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides chair-side assistance during dental procedures, sterilizes instruments, and mixes restorative materials as needed 
• Performs intra-oral and extra-oral x-rays, develops and mounts x-ray films 
• Maintains x-ray, processor, autoclave, and dental unit(s) according to specifications 
• Manages inventory of supplies and equipment, orders supplies and ensures set up of trays for patients 
• Completes daily instrument count sheet, performs dental screenings, and maintains cleanliness and sanitation of dental clinic through careful practices. 

Requirements:
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.

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.