Full-Time
Senior Dental Assistant
University of Miami
No salary listed
Company Does Not Provide H1B Sponsorship
Miami, FL, USA
In Person
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
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Requirements
- Associate degree or Technical Certificate (CDA or Expanded Functions)
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience
- Skill in completing assignments accurately and with attention to detail
- Ability to analyze, organize and prioritize work under pressure while meeting deadlines
- Ability to process and handle confidential information with discretion
- Ability to work evenings, nights, and weekends as necessary
- Commitment to the University’s core values
- Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment
Responsibilities
- Makes provisions to ensure patients are welcomed, comforted, and seated.
- Provides instrumentation by sterilizing and delivering instruments to treatment area.
- Provides materials by selecting, mixing, and placing materials on instruments and in the patient's mouth.
- Provides diagnostic information by exposing and developing radiographic studies.
- Pours, trims, and polishes study casts, and cleans and polishes removable appliances.
- Fabricating temporary restorations and taking impressions / intraoral scans.
- Maintains emergency drug and oxygen supply, and emergency telephone directory.
- Educates patients by giving oral hygiene, plaque control, and postoperative instructions.
- Documents dental care services by charting in patients’ records.
- Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential.
- Maintains a safe and clean working environment. Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control protocols.
- Ensures proper operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, troubleshooting malfunctions, and coordinating repairs.
- Maintains dental supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level, anticipating needed supplies, placing, and expediting orders, and verifying receipt of supplies.
- Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reviewing professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
- Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.
- This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.
- Obtains vital signs and patient information for inclusion in the patient’s medical record.
- Prepares exam room for examination.
- Assists with physical examinations by preparing supplies and handling instruments/materials to the doctor as directed.
- Assist all dental and surgical providers with all in-office procedures, set up, instrumentation, kits, and any other needs as required of the procedure being performed.
- Provides patients with basic instructions and information regarding examination / procedures.
- Cleans and sterilizes instruments; observes the principles of sterile technique in performing duties.
- Timely turn over for rooms to expedite care and efficiency.
- Cleans all patient room surfaces in accordance to UHealth’s infection control and patient safety guidelines.
- Perform basic dental imaging, handle imaging devices such as X-ray machines (static and portable), 3D scanners, etc.
- Adequately process surgical specimens collection and oversee lab pick-up.
- Maintain integrity of all department/division logs (E.g., dental lab logs, specimen logs, sedation logs, medications logs, crash cart logs, etc.)
- Maintain accurate and complete patient record/documentation.
- Orders, stocks, and inventories supplies and assists in performing clerical duties.
- Escorts and transports patients to various hospital locations.
- Cross-train and cross-cover other areas or clinics based on departmental need, travel offsite may be necessary.
- Other duties as required of department operational needs.