Dental Assistant

Allied Health Professional Duties

Total Rewards of an Allied Health Professional Duties and Responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Gathers diagnostic information, charting of existing conditions.
• Assists with specialty procedures including oral surgery, periodontal therapy, endodontic, prosthodontic and implant placement and restoration
• Anticipates surgeons/specialists needs at each stage of treatment.
• Takes preliminary impressions.
• Receives and prepares patient for treatment including seating, positioning chair, placing napkin, performing disinfection procedures in the operatory.
• Prepares procedural trays/set-ups.
• Exposes and processes digital dental radiographs saving digital images to the electronic medical record with indirect supervision.
• Pours, trims, evaluates the quality of diagnostic casts.
• Fabricates custom trays.
• Captures standard and special dental images of good diagnostic quality in traditional or digital formats.

Work Schedule: Monday - Friday; 7:00 am - 3:30 pm. Will be required to work rotating Saturdays. Work Schedule is subject to change based on agency need.

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 #: 55767F

Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized

Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized