NorthLakes Community Clinic·Turtle Lake, Wisconsin
Provide patient care in collaboration with a Registered Dental Hygienist, focusing on overall health and wellness. Responsibilities include preparing patients, performing sterilization, managing dental records in DentalSeal and EDR, and maintaining equipment for school-based outreach.
Caring for our community starts with you. Join a team that believes everyone deserves care.
Candidates must reside within NorthLakes' service area at the time of hire and maintain residency throughout employment.
The Outreach Dental Assistants main purpose is to provide appropriate patient care while working hand in hand with the Outreach Registered Dental Hygienist. The Outreach Dental Assistant will do this by helping to address the needs of the patient in order to be successful with overall health and wellness.
Salary begins at $20.45 + per hour depending on experience.
**$2,000 Sign on bonus for full time (1.0 FTE). Part time are also eligible for a prorated bonus based on FTE.**
Essential Job Functions
Receive and prepare patient for treatment.
Charts conditions of suspected decay and disease for treatment by hygienist and referral to a dentist in DentalSeal.
Performs sterilization and disinfection procedures of patient care areas and instruments. Sets up instrument trays, prepares materials, and assists the provider during dental procedures.
Completes necessary forms to be sent home with the child informing the guardian of treatment received.
Registers patients in DentalSeal and EDR, verifies insurance, demographics and guarantor.
Performs maintenance of equipment, replenish supplies and load and unload equipment as needed for transportation and setup at the school.
Perform sterilization and disinfection procedures in compliance with policy and procedures.
Understand insurance guidelines for allowable services and treatment frequency.
Apply effective communication techniques with a variety of patients.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications: and Education Requirements:
One year certificate from college or technical school; or three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Three or more months related experience and/or clinical training preferred.
Current dental assisting certification with DANB required; three or more months related experience or training preferred.
Current CPR certification required for all roles. Certification from an accredited agency within 12 months of hire is strongly preferred. OR Dental Assistant candidates must be eligible for full credentialing with partnering hospital system.
Strong communication skills, organizational skills and time management skills.
Our Mission is to respond to the healthcare needs of our communities with an integrated array of quality services and actively remove barriers to wellness.
NorthLakes Community Clinic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, marital status, disability, military or veteran status, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
All offers of employment are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check and references.
At NorthLakes Community Clinic, our organizational competencies highlight the behaviors and values that guide how we work and provide a shared foundation for performance, development, and growth throughout an employee’s career with us.
Mission Driven - Advances the organizational mission, vision and values in executing job duties.
Customer Service - Committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets proper customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met.
Quality - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
Creativity - Generates new ideas, supports change, provides innovative solutions, solves problems creatively.
Integrity - Earns the trust and confidence of coworkers and customers through honest communication, ethical behavior and professionalism in all interactions.
Teamwork - Contributes to meeting team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team to meet goals, welcomes newcomers and promotes a cooperative team atmosphere.
Self-Development - Seeks out and accepts feedback, is a proactive learner, takes on tough assignments to improve skills, keeps knowledge and skills up-to-date, turns mistakes into learning opportunities.
Job Knowledge - Understands duties and responsibilities, possesses necessary job knowledge and technical skills, maintains job knowledge current.
Communication - Understand and communicate effectively with others using a variety of contexts and formats, which include writing, speaking, reading, listening and interpersonal skills.
Dependability - Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements.
Trauma/Resilience Informed - Understands that trauma is prevalent and resilience can be cultivated and improved; and operates in a manner consistent with these principles.
Requires a one-year certificate from a college/technical school or equivalent experience, and current CPR certification. Certified roles must hold a current DANB certification, while non-certified roles prefer three months of related clinical training.
Market context
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