Registered Dental Assistant

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Jackson, TN, US

Today Requisition

About Christ Community Health Services

Since 1995, Christ Community Health Services (CCHS) has provided high-quality healthcare to underserved communities through distinctively Christian service. As a faith-based Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), we serve approximately 60,000 patients each year across our Memphis health centers, offering primary care, dental, behavioral health, pharmacy, and specialty services.

About the Role

Christ Community Health Services is seeking a bilingual Registered Dental Assistant to provide comprehensive chairside support to licensed dentists and hygienists while helping the dental clinic operate efficiently. This role combines direct clinical assistance, approved expanded functions, patient education, language-access support, scheduling, documentation, supply management, laboratory-case tracking, and other administrative responsibilities.

The Registered Dental Assistant helps patients understand dental services, treatment plans, and administrative processes through clear, accurate, and culturally sensitive communication. The employee must also be prepared to provide coverage at multiple CCHS dental locations as operational needs require.

Why Join CCHS?

• Help underserved patients access high-quality dental care and understand their treatment options.
• Use bilingual communication skills to strengthen patient understanding, trust, and continuity of care.
• Work closely with dentists, hygienists, and other members of an integrated healthcare team.
• Apply both fundamental and expanded dental-assisting skills in a mission-driven clinical environment.
• Contribute to a culture grounded in compassion, service, excellence, and Christian faith.

Our Core Values - and What They Look Like in This Role

CCHS team members are expected to demonstrate our core values every day. For a Registered Dental Assistant, they mean:

• Intentional Love - Providing compassionate, culturally responsive care and helping every patient feel respected and understood.
• Devoted Service - Offering dependable chairside support, timely communication, and thoughtful assistance throughout each visit.
• Humble Excellence - Performing authorized dental functions safely, maintaining accurate records, and following clinical standards while remaining teachable and Christ-centered.

What You'll Do

• Provide chairside assistance by retracting the patient's cheek, tongue, and oral tissues and managing moisture with suction and air-water syringes to maintain a clear operative field.
• Obtain diagnostic dental radiographs, including exposing and processing images of the teeth, jaws, and surrounding oral structures in accordance with safety standards.
• Assist with clinical procedures by applying topical anesthetics and medications, placing rubber dams, removing excess cement, placing matrix bands, adjusting orthodontic ligatures, and removing sutures as directed by the dentist.
• Perform dietary and salivary evaluations and follow infection-control requirements in accordance with OSHA, CDC, organizational, and clinical guidelines.
• Educate patients on proper oral-hygiene practices and accurately chart oral conditions and treatment in the patient record.
• Maintain and disinfect dental equipment, including flushing and cleaning evacuation systems according to established protocols.
• Complete required clinical and administrative documentation accurately and in accordance with regulatory and organizational standards.
• Coordinate patient scheduling and recall appointments to support continuity of care and efficient clinic flow.
• Manage dental supply and equipment inventory, place orders, track usage, coordinate maintenance and repairs, and evaluate products and pricing.
• Track dental laboratory cases and communicate with laboratories to support timely case completion.
• Perform all responsibilities within the authorized scope of practice for a Registered Dental Assistant and in accordance with Tennessee requirements.

Treatment Plan and Language Access Support

• Follow guidelines associated with approved treatment plans and OTP requirements, ensuring alignment with payer and organizational standards.
• Provide language translation assistance as needed using clear, accurate, and culturally sensitive communication.
• Help patients understand dental services, treatment plans, follow-up…