Dental Assistant, Clinical Dentistry, PRN
Location
Winston Salem, NC | United States
Job description
Job Description
JOB SUMMARY The Dental Assistant's primary responsibilities are to provide the patient with quality care and to provide the doctor with quality assistance on patient procedures. The Dental Assistant has direct responsibility for patient's excellent experience and the patient retention while in the chair. We are looking for a dental assistant that would be available most days of the week for some scheduled and unscheduled fill-in work. The individual should be available to fill in on both a short notice or scheduled notice. There is the opportunity to work up to 30 hours per week, if needed.
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION Completion of an accredited dental assisting program (DAII or CDA); or equivalent combination of training and experience required.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE - High School diploma or GED equivalent. Graduate of an accredited dental assisting school.
- One year work experience working in a Dental office preferred.
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS - Excellent interpersonal skills
- Solid oral and written communication skills
- Computer skills, work experience with electronic medical record preferred
- Ability to multi task with efficiency
- Ability to recognize common safety hazards and take precautions to establish a safe work surrounding
- Ability to withstand long periods of standing and walking
- Ability to be focused and organized, working as a team player at all times
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS - Assist the doctor with all dental procedures including but not limited to, take directions from doctor, anticipate doctor's needs, performing patient oral evaluations, take, develop and mount accurate and high-quality X-rays, various laboratory duties including provisional.
- Perform efficient and accurate procedures to help maintain doctor's schedule and patient flow; create "no patient wait time;" maintain time flexibility for patient; be present, engaged, ready to work at all assigned shift times.
- Review patient chart prior to doctor arrival and log appropriate patient data during exam and treatment as well as transcribe doctor notes in patient chart
- Maintain patient confidentiality through HIPAA compliance
- Follow OSHA and company safety policies and procedures
- Promote and market the company's services, retail products and doctors to patients as well as educate patients and address their questions and/or concerns
- Verify patient health history (basic health review, medications, understanding impact with dentistry) and document appropriately in patient's chart.
- Complete checklists as assigned.
- Clean and prepare operatory per company procedures prior to patient appointment
- Sterilize equipment and operatories per OSHA guidelines
- Assist staff in scheduling patients' follow up visits
- Create all NEA's as necessary for all work done by the end of the day.
- Assist with cleaning of front office areas as needed.
- Follow up with labs to ensure quality and timely products
- Track incoming and outgoing lab cases with staff
- Assist hygienist(s) as requested
- Monitor level of dental supplies and order as assigned by Office Leader using approved formulary.
- Other duties apply.
WORK ENVIRONMENT - Clean, comfortable, office environment
- Moderate noise level
- Fast paced, busy clinic at all times
About Us Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
About the Team Mission, Vision and Culture Commitments Mission To improve health, elevate hope and advance healing - for all.
Vision To be the first and best choice for care.
Culture Commitments We create a space where all Belong
We Work as One to make great things happen
We earn Trust in all we do
We Innovate to better the now and create the future
We drive for Excellence - always
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