Located in a busy Staten Island shopping mall, Ideal Smiles Dental aims to provide a modern and inviting environment to provide our patients the best possible visit and outcome. It is our mission to provide clients with the best, most advanced, and most comprehensive treatment to give them a beautiful, ideal smile as well as overall health and wellness. In business for 10 years, our two doctors and wonderful staff strive to work together, creating a fun and friendly atmosphere. We pride ourselves on working together to achieve thorough and thoughtful treatment of our patients and continued success as a team.
Our enthusiastic office aims to add to our dental family with a dental office assistant. On top of a family centered culture, we offer 401k, vacation, and bonus incentives through the year.
Dental Office Assistant Duties:
- Focusing on Patient Safety and Team Safety as priority one
- Adhering to OSHA and Infection Control Protocols, and disposing of sharps and clinical waste in a prompt and safe manner
- Preparing tray set-ups according to doctor preferences and planned procedures
- Ensuring that exam rooms and operatories are cleaned, disinfected, and organized.
- Charting existing treatment for new patients by updating the patient chart with entries for fillings, crowns, sealants, etc.
- Taking diagnostic quality X-Rays and attaching them to the patient chart.
- Ability to communicate clearly with team and doctors
- Making patients feel comfortable during their visit.
Dental Office Assistant Qualifications:
- Some dental assistant experience required
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Ability to work well with a team and ask for help when needed
- Self-motivated
- Detail Oriented
Job Types: Full-time, Part-time
Pay: From $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Employee discount
- Paid time off
- Referral program
Schedule:
Education:
- High school or equivalent (Preferred)
Experience:
- Dental Assisting: 1 year (Preferred)
Work Location: In person