10/20/2021
Our Dental Care Center is hiring a fulltime Dental Assistant/Office Manager! Apply online at www.yugm.org/employment.
Direct Work
• Documents dental assisting services, recording vital signs and medical and dental histories and charting in patient records
• Assisting dentist in procedures
• Interpreting as needed in clinic
• Recruiting and orienting Dentist volunteers
• Recruiting and training volunteers that support the clinic (in included interpreters, front desk, sterile, other tasks as you see fit)
• Attending YUGM Leadership meetings to represent dental clinic
• Point person for dental clinic programmatic needs, reporting to medical director and utilizing staff and resources from UGM
• Answer phones, schedule appointments, ensure dentists have full and complete schedule
• Ensure proper customer service for patients both on in person visits and follow up needs
• Oversee patient billing (while in use) using clinic standards, and train staff as needed for collecting payment
• Develop systems that assist clinic to run more efficiently
• Daily problem solving of clinic logistics
• Chart conditions of decay and disease, performing procedures in compliance with the dental practice act
• Maintains safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations
• Protects patients and employees by adhering to infection-control policies and protocols
• Educates patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions and postoperative instructions; provide information on remaining treatment needs
• Helps Dentists manage dental and medical emergencies by maintaining CPR certification, emergency drugs and oxygen supply and directory of emergency numbers
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies.
