Dental Assistant (Float)

Job Description

Job Description

Join Evara Health—Driven by Purpose, Powered by People. 

At Evara Health, we believe healthcare is about more than treating patients—it’s about transforming lives and strengthening the communities we serve. As a nonprofit community health center with 17 locations and mobile health units across Pinellas County, we provide high-quality, accessible care while creating meaningful opportunities for our employees to make a difference every day. Recognized as a USA TODAY Top Workplace, Evara Health is proud to foster a mission-driven culture where people are valued, collaboration matters, and employees can grow while doing work that has a real impact.

If you’re looking for more than just a job—and want to be part of a team committed to improving lives and serving our community—we invite you to explore a career with Evara Health.

Build a career that goes beyond a job—it changes lives. 

** Please note: This role will float between our centers in Pinellas County** 

About This Role:

The Dental Assistant at Evara Health is a vital member of the dental healthcare team, providing essential clinical and administrative support to ensure efficient and high-quality patient care. Under general supervision, this role involves assisting with dental procedures, maintaining dental equipment, and supporting patient administration and office operations.

What You'll Do:

• Comprehensive Clinical Support: As a Dental Assistant at Evara Health, you play an essential role in delivering high-quality care by providing chairside assistance to dentists, residents, and students across a wide range of procedures including operative, preventive, periodontal, endodontic, prosthetic, and oral surgery services.
• Commitment to Patient Safety and Infection Control: Ensure the delivery of safe, aseptic dental care by maintaining a clean and sterile clinical environment, following strict infection control protocols, and properly preparing, disinfecting, and sterilizing instruments and equipment.
• Advanced Clinical Contributions: Support efficient and effective care by performing expanded duties such as fabricating temporary crowns and bridges, applying sealants and fluoride, taking impressions, coronal polishing, placing and removing matrices and gingival retraction devices, removing sutures, placing temporary restorations, and capturing diagnostic radiographs.
• Championing Patient Experience: Foster a welcoming and supportive environment by clearly explaining procedures, assisting with treatment plan discussions, and ensuring patients and their families feel informed, comfortable, and respected throughout their visit.
• Coordinated Patient Care: Assist in scheduling and managing patient appointments in alignment with treatment plans, helping to ensure smooth patient flow and timely access to care.
• Operational Excellence: Maintain accurate and timely documentation within electronic health records (EHR), ensure completion of patient forms and consent documentation, and support overall clinic efficiency through strong organizational skills.
• Team-Based Collaboration: Work closely with dental providers, hygienists, and administrative staff to support seamless care delivery, stepping in to assist front office functions and patient coordination as needed.
• Inventory and Resource Management: Participate in monthly inventory processes and help manage dental supplies and materials to ensure clinics remain fully equipped to serve patients without interruption.

Why You’ll Love Working Here:

• Meaningful Impact: From children to adults, our teams help meet the healthcare needs of communities across Pinellas County, impacting more than 75,000 lives each year. No matter your role, your work contributes to expanding access to care and improving the health of the communities that need us most.
• Career Growth: Whether you’re building your career from an entry-level role through our Pathways training programs or preparing to grow into leadership through the Healthcare Management Academy, we offer development programs designed to support your career journey and help you grow at Evara Health.
• Culture:  Join a USA TODAY Top Workplace where people are at the heart of what we do. From theme days and team celebrations to organization-wide events, recognition and opportunities to share your voice, we work hard to create a culture where you can have fun, feel connected, and know your contributions as a healthcare professional are valued.

• Graduation from an accredited Dental Assistant Program.
• One or more years of experience as a Dental Assistant preferred.

• Current CPR (BLS) certification required.
• Expanded Functions Dental Assistant (EFDA) certification required.

Culture and Benefits: