Dental office: Dental Assistant

Caring for our community starts with you. Join a team that believes everyone deserves care.The Dental Assistant provides appropriate patient care while working hand in hand with the Dentist for in-clinic work. The Dental Assistant will do this by helping to address the needs of the patient in order to be successful with overall health and wellness.Salary begins at $20.45 + per hour depending on experience.* Take digital dental x-rays to help aid the dentist in proper diagnosis of oral health condition.* Place fluoride varnish to help in the prevention of oral health disease.* Sterilizes and disinfects instruments, sets up instrument trays, prepares materials, and assists dentist during dental procedures.* Makes preliminary impressions for study casts and occlusal registrations for mounting study casts.* Pours, trims, and polishes models, fabricates custom impression trays from preliminary impressions, cleans and polishes removable appliances, and fabricates temporary crowns.* Knowledge of Scope of Practice per Wisconsin Dental Assistant statues.* Perform sterilization and disinfection procedures in compliance with policy and procedures.* or three or more months related experience and/or training; OR Dental Assistant candidates must be eligible for full credentialing with partnering hospital system.At NorthLakes Community Clinic, our organizational competencies highlight the behaviors and values that guide how we work and provide a shared foundation for performance, development, and growth throughout an employee's career with us.NorthLakes Community Clinic Organizational CompetenciesCustomer Service - Committed to increasing customer satisfaction, sets proper customer expectations, assumes responsibility for solving customer problems, ensures commitments to customers are met.Quality - Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.Integrity - Earns the trust and confidence of coworkers and customers through honest communication, ethical behavior and professionalism in all interactions.Teamwork - Contributes to meeting team deadlines and responsibilities, listens to others and values opinions, helps team to meet goals, welcomes newcomers and promotes a cooperative team atmosphere.Communication - Understand and communicate effectively with others using a variety of contexts and formats, which include writing, speaking, reading, listening and interpersonal skills.Dependability - Meets commitments, works independently, accepts accountability, handles change, sets personal standards, stays focused under pressure, meets attendance/punctuality requirements.