Dental Assistant

Description

Prairie Band Health Service is seeking a Dental Assistants to provide exceptional healthcare services at Woodrow Wilson Keeble Memorial Healthcare Center 100 Lake Traverse Drive Sisseton SD 57262

Learn more about the facility here: Woodrow Wilson Keeble Memorial Health Care Center (WWKMHCC) | Healthcare Facilities

Details:

• Monday through Friday
• Great Staff and Location
• Great Compensation and Benefits

Hours of Operation: normal clinic hours and shifts, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Monday thru Friday except Federal holidays

Duties:

Dental assistants perform full-scope clinical duties following appropriate state licensing and clinical policies. This includes but is not limited to checking in patients, rooming patients, taking vital signs, taking radiographs, providing appropriate stress-reduction techniques to anxious patients.

Provide high-quality, attentive chairside treatment such as suction, instrument passing, and procedure setup and take-down.

Infection control duties include instrument reprocessing following applicable guidelines and service unit policies.

Clerical duties of maintaining patient records, and scheduling appointments.

Additional Duties:

Additional duties and responsibilities may be added to this job description at any time. The job description does not state or imply that these are the only activities to be performed by the employee holding this position. Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related responsibilities as requested by their supervisor.

Requirements

• Have minimum of high school diploma
• Preference is for licensed/registered dental assistant with certification from an accredited program.
• If assistant is unlicensed, they must have five (5) years’ experience and maintain dental radiographer training and license. Assistants without radiographer license will not be an acceptable candidate.
• Maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification

Indian Preference Exercised

Prairie Band, LLC is subject to Title 22: Employment Code of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. In accordance with Title 22, this position is designated as a TIER 2 position. Preference will be given to individuals to the extent required pursuant to Section 22-2-4(B).