Dental Assistant

Job Title

Dental Assistant

Duties

Major duties include:

• Interact with management, co-workers, patients, and the general public consistently courteous, respectful, and cooperative in nature. Employee will display a cooperative attitude and will effectively work with others to implement the organization's mission and goals. Employee will ensure productivity is maintained to support the needs of the service.
• Identify normal oral anatomy; have advanced knowledge of dental instruments, materials and standardized dental procedures used in all phases of restorative, surgical, endodontic and periodontal care and procedures; ability to anticipate surgeons/specialists needs at each stage of treatment; perform infection control practices in accordance with standard protocols; monitor and perform basic interpretation of vital signs; concepts of four-handed dentistry; independently provide procedure-specific patient education and appropriate referral of patient concerns to treating dentist; capture standard and special dental radiographic images of good diagnostic quality in digital formats; perform maintenance on dental equipment used for routine and specialty dentistry; performs dental assistant-appropriate laboratory procedures; takes preliminary impressions, manually and digitally; selects and manipulates a variety of gypsums and waxes; pours, trims and evaluates the quality of diagnostic casts; fabricates custom trays, bite guards and retainers.
• Complies with standard recommendation for equipment maintenance. Maintains routine dental equipment per manufacturer and dental service standards. Retrieves all pertinent patient records prior to seating the dental patient. Assists patient in scheduling future visits.
• Keeps clinical spaces, work areas, computer areas, and shared common areas neat, organized, and free of clutter. Demonstrates proper infection control procedures in setting up and cleaning operatories and all aspects of patient care. Properly disinfects oral appliances to prevent cross contamination. Maintains both routine and specialty dental equipment per manufacturer instructions and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs.) Follows all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for Reusable Medical Equipment (RME). Employee performs duties using safe ergonomic work practices. Wears radiation monitoring badge.
• Maintains patient confidentiality per HIPAA with written and verbal information. Follows all security regulations when using any government-owned electronic device.

Work Schedule: Monday-Friday; 7:30am-4pm.

Pay: Competitive salary and regular salary increases When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

Paid Time Off: 37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year) Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

Parental Leave: After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

Child Care Subsidy: After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 91669-A

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized