dental assistant
commercial station dental center • Vancouver, BC, CA
30+ days ago
Salary
CA$36.80 hourly
Job type
- Full-time
- Permanent
Job description
- Education: College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
- Experience: 2 years to less than 3 years
- Dental practice
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Order dental and office supplies
- Perform administrative functions for the dental laboratory
- Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
- Maintain and order supplies
- Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
- Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
- Prepare wax bite-blocks and impression trays
- Take and develop X-rays
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
- Take dental impressions
- Clean and sterilize the operating room and instruments
- Operate computerized scanning machines
- Operate X-ray, radiographic and fluoroscopic equipment
- Computer-aided design (CAD)
- Registration with provincial or territorial authorities
- Fast-paced environment
- Repetitive tasks
- Attention to detail
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Large workload
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Team player
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Reliability
- Day
- Weekend
- Dental plan
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
- Work Term: Permanent
- Work Language: English
- Hours: 32 hours per week