Dental Assistant - GS

Overview

This position is located at Eisenhower Army Medical Center, Fort Gordon GA.

This position is a multi provider dental office with duty hours of 7:30 a.m.

- 4:30p.m., Monday-Friday. Applicant can expect to achieve a greater understanding of dentistry and work in cooperative and motivated environment.

Salary Range: $40,736 - $52,957 per year

Benefits :

Ft. Gordon is adjacent to Augusta, GA famous for its major attraction, The Masters Golf Tournament. Ft. Gordon has a moderate year-round climate and offers close proximity to metropolitan areas, beaches along the Atlantic Ocean and the Appalachian Mountains.

Duties

• Perform inter-oral procedures as directed by dentist.
• Obtains preliminary dental impressions to support fabrication of diagnostic study models.
• Operates dental radiographic equipment to capture diagnostic images that support provider evaluation and treatment planning.
• Receive and schedule patients for treatment.
• Prepare and arrange all instruments and materials needed for each treatment.
• Sterilizes dental instruments, materials, and equipment using approved infection-control protocols to ensure compliance with clinical safety standards.
• Take and record blood pressure and pulse of oral surgery patients before and after treatment.
• Aid in the training of trainee dental assistants and students.
• Prepares surgical trays by arranging sterilized instruments and supplies according to procedure-specific requirements.
• Removes sutures in accordance with clinical provider instructions to support postoperative healing assessments.
• Places and removes rubber dams to isolate teeth and maintain a controlled operative environment.

US Citizenship required

Basic Requirement for Dental Assistant:

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the Education and / or Experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, Ameri Corps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Basic Requirement:

Radiology Certification:
Public Law 97-35 requires that persons who administer radiologic procedures meet the credentialing standards in 42 CFR Part 75. Essentially, they must (1) have successfully completed an educational program that meets or exceeds the standards described in that regulation and is accredited by an organization recognized by the Department of Education, and (2) be certified as radiographers in their field.

The following meet these requirements:(1) Persons employed by the Federal Government as radiologic personnel prior to the effective date of the regulation (January 13, 1986) who show evidence of current or fully satisfactory performance or certification of such from a licensed practitioner such as a Doctor of Medicine, osteopathy, dentistry, podiatry, or chiropractic who prescribes radiologic procedures to others.(2) Persons first employed by the Federal Government as radiologic personnel after the effective date of the regulation who (a) received training from institutions in a State or foreign jurisdiction that did not accredit training in that particular field at the time of graduation, or (b) practiced in a State or foreign jurisdiction that did not license that particular field or did not allow special eligibility to take a licensure examination for…