Employment Information
- Post ID: 537487902
- Open Date: October 23, 2024
- Close Date: December 18, 2024
- Organization: Lake Dental Health Centre
- Sector: Healthcare & Social Workers
- Business Location:Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, Canada
- Total Views: 200
- Duration: 0 calendar days (1 business days)
- Last Updated: 3 hours ago
- Job URL: https://newpeople.ca/jobs/british-columbia/lake-cowichan/537487902/chair-side-assistant-dental/
Job Details
- Experience: Not mandatory
- Job Vacancies: 1
- Compensation: $18.00 to $21.00 per hour (To be negotiated) / 7 to 30 hours per 2 weeks
- Anticipated Start Date: As soon as possible
- Apply by: email to [email protected], by mail
- Education: High school graduation certificate
Job Description
Tasks
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Prepare plaster models and moulds
- Order dental and office supplies
- Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
- Maintain and order supplies
- Mould wax over dentures set-up
- Perform reception and clerical duties
- Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
- Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
- Polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Pack plastic material in moulds to form full or partial dentures
- Perform intra-oral duties
- Take and develop X-rays
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Invoice patients for dental services
- Fabricate and place temporary crowns and restorations
- Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
Experience and specialization
Computer and technology knowledge
- MS Excel
- MS Outlook
- MS Windows
- MS Word
Additional information
Security and safety
- Immunization records
- Criminal record check
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Large workload
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Team player
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Reliability
Benefits
Health benefits
- Dental plan
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Parking available