Lead Dental Assistant

Job Description

Job Description

Lead Dental Assistant – Clinical Operations We are seeking an experienced, highly organized Lead Dental Assistant to oversee the organization and daily operation of our clinical back office. This is a hands-on leadership position for an excellent dental assistant with the organizational ability, initiative, and leadership skills to keep a busy clinical department running efficiently. Key Responsibilities - Lead and organize the dental assisting team by delegating responsibilities, training staff, maintaining consistent standards, and following up to ensure duties are completed properly. - Identify and resolve routine back-office problems proactively and communicate significant clinical, equipment, supply, or staffing concerns to management. - Maintain an exceptionally organized, clean, stocked, and treatment-ready clinical environment, including operatories, sterilization, storage, supplies, instruments, equipment, and lab areas. - Stay ahead of the schedule by ensuring rooms, materials, lab cases, implant components, and specialty equipment are prepared before they are needed. - Oversee clinical inventory, ordering, sterilization, equipment maintenance, and repairs while minimizing shortages, waste, and unnecessary downtime. - Remain an active and highly capable chairside assistant who anticipates the dentist's needs and helps maintain efficient patient flow. The Person We're Looking For We are looking for someone who is exceptionally organized, proactive, dependable, detail-oriented, personable, and accountable. The ideal candidate is a natural leader who can prioritize, delegate, follow up, solve problems, and maintain high standards for the entire clinical team. Our Lead Dental Assistant should always have a strong understanding of what needs to be done, what is running low, what is missing or broken, what is coming up on the schedule, and whether important tasks have been completed. The goal is simple: keep the back office organized and running so efficiently that potential problems are identified and addressed before they interfere with the schedule, patient care, or the dentist. If you are an experienced dental assistant who naturally creates organization, leads by example, and enjoys making a busy dental office run smoothly, we would like to hear from you. *Bilingual in Spanish is a plus