Camino Health Center Dental Assistant in Dana Point, CA | 933248560

Estimated Pay	$23 per hour
Hours	Full-time, Part-time
Location	Dana Point, CA Dana Point, California

Job Description

Are you interested in a career in Healthcare? Are you interested in a career working somewhere you can help the underserved and vulnerable communities?

Here at Camino Health Center as a Dental Assistant (DA), the primary job function is to work as part of a team to provide high-quality, efficient, and service-oriented patient care while demonstrating the health center’s core values - Service, Dignity, Excellence, and Justice. The Dental Assistant is responsible for performing basic supportive chair-side procedures under the direction of the Staff Dentists, maintaining the operatories in a safe and workable condition, properly cleaning all dental instruments, and assisting with providing oral health education to patients and caregivers. Secondarily, the Dental Assistant is responsible for providing front office support, ensuring that a high level of customer service is provided to health center patients and caretakers.

The Essential Functions that the Medical Assistant will handle are as follows:

Direct Patient Care

Assist in providing extra-oral and intra-oral duties as directed by the staff dentist.
Assist in recording patient treatment in the electronic dental record.
Provide oral hygiene education to patients and caretakers.
Takes high quality and clinically appropriate digital radiographs.

Back Office Duties

Sets up trays for procedures.
Properly cleans all dental instruments and maintains operatories in a safe and workable condition. Notify appropriate team members about supplies needing to be ordered and equipment requiring repairs.
Sterilizes all instruments according to infection control regulations. Lubricates and oils hand-pieces before and after sterilization.
Ensures compliance with infection control procedures as mandated by the California Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Front Office Duties

Maintain dental schedule; including making appointments and reminder calls.
Answer dental phones calls and return voice messages.
Maintain electronic patient filing system, including establishing new patient records and scanning paper records and x-rays into the electronic dental record.
Maintain patient records in the practice management system, including updating patient demographic and contact information.
Check-in responsibilities, including acknowledging appointments and verifying patient information.
Check-out responsibilities, including insurance verification and cash collection. Responsible for assessing and documenting patient eligibility to participate in the health center’s sliding fee discount program
Work collaboratively with the dental team to ensure optimal workflow and department goals are achieved.

Outreach, In-Reach and Education

Assist with coordination of external dental screenings, facilitate and maintain a positive rapport with parents, school staff, childcare providers and community agencies.
Assist with community dental outreach opportunities which may include, but are not limited to: parent education classes in selected sites, Community Outreach Programs sponsored by other agencies serving the target population and pre-school dental screenings.
Conduct in-reach activities to identifying new patients using other Camino services who could also benefit for the dental program. When possible coordinate same day care for these patients.
Facilitate the collection of surveys and questionnaires required by funders or through community partnerships.
Participation in continuing education events.

The following are the requirements to be eligible for the role:

Minimum Position Qualifications: List the minimum qualifications required for this position.

Education: High School diploma or equivalent education

Preferred Position Qualifications: List the preferred qualifications required for this position.

Experience / Training: Two years’ experience working in a pediatric dental office or community clinic
License / Certification: Valid Dental Assistant Certificate, including radiology and infection control certification; valid and current BLS certification

Company Description

Our mission is to improve the health status of the underserved in south Orange County by providing affordable, quality primary health care. Our vision is to develop an efficient organization with a full range of integrated primary care services to promote wellness through patient education, prevention and chronic disease management at accessible locations with community collaborations. A few of the services we provide are Medical, Behavioral Health, Dental, and WIC. We are located in South Orange County with clinics in Lake Forest, San Juan Capistrano, and San Clemente.

Benefits: We consider our employee benefits program to be one of our most important investments. Because we recognize the value our employees bring to our organization, we are committed to providing our employees with a complete benefits program as part of their total compensation. These include:

• Approved Service Site for the National Health Service Corp Loan Repayment Program
• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance - 100% Paid by employer
•Paid Time Off
•403(B) Retirement Plan
•Short-Term and Long-Term Disability
•Basic Life Insurance and AD&D
•Supplemental Life Insurance and AD&D for Employees and Dependents
•Flexible Spending Account – Health Care and Dependent Care
•Employee Assistance Program
•Tuition Reimbursement

Camino Health Center is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

Company Description

Our mission is to improve the health status of the underserved in south Orange County by providing affordable, quality primary health care. Our vision is to develop an efficient organization with a full range of integrated primary care services to promote wellness through patient education, prevention and chronic disease management at accessible locations with community collaborations. A few of the services we provide are Medical, Behavioral Health, Dental, and WIC. We are located in South Orange County with clinics in Lake Forest, San Juan Capistrano, and San Clemente.\r\n\r\nBenefits: We consider our employee benefits program to be one of our most important investments. Because we recognize the value our employees bring to our organization, we are committed to providing our employees with a complete benefits program as part of their total compensation. These include:\r\n\r\n• Approved Service Site for the National Health Service Corp Loan Repayment Program\r\n• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance - 100% Paid by employer \r\n•Paid Time Off \r\n•403(B) Retirement Plan \r\n•Short-Term and Long-Term Disability \r\n•Basic Life Insurance and AD&D \r\n•Supplemental Life Insurance and AD&D for Employees and Dependents\r\n•Flexible Spending Account – Health Care and Dependent Care\r\n•Employee Assistance Program\r\n•Tuition Reimbursement\r\n\r\nCamino Health Center is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.