Dental Assistant 2

About this Opportunity

The UW School of Dentistry has an outstanding opportunity for a Dental Assistant 2 to join their team. Reporting to the Dental Clinic Manager of the UW Dentistry Camus Dental Center, the DA2 is expected to communicate with their manager when they see areas for operational improvement or ways to improve the safety of the clinical environment. Desirable candidates for this position must have the ability to work independently and be a reliable team player with a strong work ethic.

The DA2 must demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, resolve conflict in a positive manner, and interact with patients, staff, faculty, and students on a professional level at all times. They must also be able to handle difficult situations professionally and use good judgement while upholding the policies of the University of Washington and UW School of Dentistry (UWSOD).

• Provide excellent customer service to the School’s patients, students, faculty, and staff.
• Aid dental residents and/or faculty in four-handed dentistry and in routine chair-side duties and patient care.
• Provide residents with knowledge and ideas to help aid in the dental care educational process.
• Clean and prepare treatment area.
• Keep all areas clean, orderly, and neat.
• Obtain and mix dental materials.
• Ability to expose digital intra and extraoral radiographs.
• May conduct inventories and stock supplies.
• Monitor school-owned instruments for breakage and wear.
• Assess replacement needs.
• Monitor and maintain clinic hand pieces.
• Take impressions for study models and opposing models.
• Mechanical polishing to amalgam restorations, clinical crowns and supragingival areas.
• Place matrix and wedge.
• Remove excess cement.
• Fabricate, place, and remove temporary fillings.
• Expose digital dental x-ray images.
• Deliver fluoride treatments.
• Teach oral hygiene.
• Remove dry socket dressing and periodontal pack.
• Remove sutures; pack and medicate extraction areas.
• Assist in the administration of nitrous oxide analgesia.
• Under direct supervision maintain IV, controlled substance, and non-narcotic drug inventories log and check emergency drugs for expiration dates.
• Placement of retraction cord.
• Select denture shade and mold.
• Acid etch and apply sealants.
• Place cotton rolls and holders.
• Other duties as provided in the dental laws of the State of Washington.
• Assist in the treatment of disabled patients and/or patients admitted in the clinic.
• Take and record vital signs when patients are sedated.
• Instruct patients in the appropriate role of dental assistants in the delivery of patient care; assist in various four-handed techniques, such as anesthetic administration, instrument grasps and transfer and gold foil mall eating.
• Take and record vital signs and review health history with patients.
• May perform all duties of a Dental Assistant to the full extent of licensure.

• Check instruments and cassettes keeping detailed records of all assets.
• Maintain and operate autoclaves and sterilization equipment; disinfect items and follow pre-sterilization and sterilization-established protocol.
• Duties include scrubbing, ultrasonic operation, drying, sorting, resetting, packaging and labeling instrument setups.
• Assemble dental instrument packs.
• Store sterile and disinfected set-ups in preparation for delivery of patient care.
• Monitor school-owned instruments for breakage and wear; assess replacement needs.
• Monitor and maintain hand pieces sterilization.
  
  Perform weekly spore testing on autoclaves and other sterilizers.
• Keep all areas clean, orderly, and neat.
• Inspect, assemble, package, label and date instruments and cassettes.
• Perform additional sterilization duties as assigned.

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