Job Title
Registered Dental Assistant
Role
RDA
Location
Seattle
,
WA
Description
Do you want to make a positive impact on your community? Do you enjoy putting a smile on every patient's face? At Premier Periodontics, we are devoted to high quality care for everyone and are looking for a new dental assistant to help us maintain the level of care we are committed to. If you love helping people, making sure patients are comfortable, and getting to learn in a fast-paced environment, this may be the position for you.
A little more about our office:
We are located on Sandpoint Way Seattle, right across from Children's Hospital. We are a busy practice and provide dental implants, gum grafting, laser treatment for periodontal disease, and so much more! We are in office seeing patients on Tuesday and Wednesday, and our doctor travels to Bellevue on Monday and Thursdays. We are looking for an individual who is eager to learn various tasks.
Summary/objective
The role of a Surgical Assistant is to assist their Periodontist in the clinical setting. Their main priority is to ensure excellent patient care, maintain safety standards, and be the “right-hand” of their Doctor. This job description outlines the essential functions of the Surgical Assistant position and the Core Performance areas the Surgical Assistant position is held accountable to.
Essential functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.
- Actively participates in daily morning huddles for schedule review and ensure a smooth productive day.
- Assists the Doctor during a variety of treatments, exams, procedures.
- Takes and develops xrays, photos and CBCTs and uploads into patient charts as appropriate.
- Reviews patient health histories and documents all medications, medical conditions and alerts the Doctor to any abnormalities.
- Obtains and documents patients’ blood pressures and alerts Doctors to any abnormalities.
- Performs the setup and breakdown of all operatory equipment, instruments and documents on time, to meet regulatory and compliance requirements and to keep the Doctors on schedule with daily patient care.
- Is proficient at solely working a Doctors column of surgeries, exams and patient procedures recalls.
- Assists Hygienist with patient care whenever necessary.
- Directs doctors accordingly to maximize efficiency and minimize downtime.
- Demonstrates proficiency with maintaining dental office aseptic and infection control with all materials, equipment and during patient care.
- Maintains the surgical site and anticipates chairside surgical assisting protocol in a proficient and competent manner.
- Demonstrates cost controls while stocking rooms, storing and ordering materials and preparing and using dental materials during procedures and exams.
- Is proficient in educating patients in all practice procedures, exams and procedures recall
- Is proficient at (1) entering all patient documentation into the Electronic Dental Record for legal compliance, review and Doctors’ signoffs (2) preparing accurate, complete and professional treatment plans for procedures scheduling and insurance benefits coordination (3) scanning all required paperwork into the patients’ charts.
- Provides all electronic records tactics required to ensure complete patient insurance benefits coordination (i.e. preauthorization, accurate coding, complete and professionally organized treatment plans).
- Is proficient, professional and follows SA protocol when handing off patients to the front office staff (following exams and procedures) to ensure patient scheduling of procedures.
- Assesses and professionally addresses any patient questions and/or concerns and manages the patient care while in the direct care of the Surgical Assistant.
- Demonstrates proficiency and accuracy of Electronic Dental Record input and complete scanning and documentation of patient information.
- Adheres to all practice procedures, policies and regulatory mandates including current DA Registration and BLS, OHSA/WISHA, HIPAA and disease control certifications.
- Provides issue resolution and work flow recommendations for continuous process improvements to the SA Lead.
- Maintains a professional appearance as outlined in the employee handbook.
- Maintains office and patient records organization as well as patient confidentialities (HIPAA).
- Adheres to the Table of Permitted Duties for Dental Assistants: Washington.
- Adheres to practice values and goals with regard to patient care.
- Is proficient at performing patient chart reviews following standard operating procedures as well as collaborating and obtaining patient documentation as mandated for surgical procedures and patient medical conditions.
- Is willing to provide On Call roles/responsibilities when needed from time to time.
- Maintains cleanliness throughout the dental office location to include taking turns cleaning the staff break room upon assignment.
- Maintains a smooth patient workflow with the front office staff and clinical teams to promote timely and exceptional patient experience visits.
- Maintains and keeps organization within all practice electronic records systems.
Core Performance Based Accountabilities:
Compliance:
- Maintains OSHA/WISHA, Aseptic Technique, HIPAA according to compliance and programs.
- Maintains current Registration/Posting at Home Location.
Productivity Metrics:
- SA Letters/Progress Notes are accurate and completed same day of Patient’s appointments measured by daily checklists by the SA Lead and Doctor.
- Provides the Treatment Coordinator accurate and complete Treatment Plans as measured by the SOP and Doctor.
Inventory Metrics:
- 1). Implants: With SA Lead, maintains an excel file/V: Drive of any failed implants and provides appropriate paperwork to finance team for implant replacement reconciliation.
- 2). Regeneration Materials: With SA Lead, maintains an accurate, complete and current excel file of lot numbers by patients’ ID on V: Drive for recall compliance purposes.
Competencies
- Proficiency in x-rays, CBCT, and patient charting
- Attention to Detail
Supervisory responsibilities
None
Work environment
Clinical
Education and Experience
- Maintain active Dental Assisting License required
- 2+ years of Dental Assisting experience required
- 1+ years of Dental Assisting experience in a specialty (Perio, Endo, OS) preferred
What we offer:
- Competitive pay
- Up to 80 hours accrued PTO in the first year
- $5,800 a year of Medical insurance premiums covered by the employer
- 6 Paid Holidays
- Automatic 6% employer contribution into employee's 401k
- Dental service cost 100% covered by employer for all employees (minus material cost)
- Monthly bonus potential
- Continued Education
- Growth Opportunities
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $29.00 - $37.00 per hour
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Continuing education credits
- Dental insurance
- Dependent health insurance coverage
- Employee assistance program
- Employee discount
- Flexible schedule
- Free parking
- Health insurance
- Mileage reimbursement
- On-the-job training
- Opportunities for advancement
- Paid orientation
- Paid time off
- Paid training
- Professional development assistance
Medical specialties:
Schedule:
- 10 hour shift
- Day shift
- No weekends
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Seattle, WA: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)
Application Question(s):
- Are you able to commute for two shifts in Sandpoint, and two shifts in Bellevue?
Experience:
- Dental assisting: 2 years (Required)
- Periodontal: 1 year (Required)
License/Certification:
- Dental Assistant Registration (Required)
Shift availability:
Work Location: In person