Dental lab tech Jobs in Kelowna, BC

Certified Dental Assistant

BC Cancer

Kelowna, BC

You’re a dental professional who enjoys working in a team environment, and supporting trusted connections with colleagues and patients alike. You are attentive to details, and take pride in helping to creating a welcoming, inclusive environment for everyone. Kindness, compassion and care are part of who you are, and you are seeking a work environment where you are valued and appreciated.

Perfect for a Certified Dental Assistant looking to maintain skills through casual shifts, you’ll enjoy learning on the job working with patients requiring dental care as part of their cancer journey. CDA Susanna Chow shares : “Oral Oncology is a unique dental department which treats head and neck cancer patients and some of other cancer patients. Our role is to assist dentists to provide dental care for before, during and after cancer treatment, along with oral hygiene information for maintaining good oral health.”

If you thrive on innovation, collaboration, and making a difference every day, this is your next role. to learn more about BC Cancer’s current initiatives.

What you’ll do

The Certified Dental Assistant is part of the dental team at the BC Cancer – Kelowna regional centre, and supports patients receiving chemotherapy or other cancer treatments to help improve and maintain oral hygiene in order to reduce the risk and severity of oral complications. This position participates in clinic operations functions and direct patient care. Usual tasks include :

• Participate in management of patients with medical compromise and with possible exposure to medical risk; perform all chair-side duties and coordinate booking for the dental clinic and OR procedures. Assist the Senior Certified Dental Assistant with screening of patients and assessment of dental needs to set priorities for dental visits; schedule appointments; contact patients and arrange appointments in the dental clinic.
• Communicate with medical and dental staff in the Agency and in the community as necessary to adjust appointment schedules, while ensuring that patient care is not jeopardized.
• Perform all the chair-side duties of a dental assistant and maintains infection control. Make impressions, deliver fluoride carriers to patients; instruct patients in oral care; perform such other duties from time to time as permitted by the legislation of the College of Dental Surgeons of BC for a certified dental assistant. Assist with OR procedures.
• Ensure patient charts are requested for patient appointments; check patient chart and treatment plan for completeness, file treatment plans alphabetically.
• Maintain a double entry system on content of file; log all work; box and file study models; file photographs, dictation, reports, letters and laboratory reports.

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What we bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

What we do

provides comprehensive cancer control for the people of British Columbia. BC Cancer is part of the Provincial Health Care Authority (PHSA).

plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include : Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Create equity – Be courageous.

Learn more about PHSA and our programs :

BC Cancer and PHSA are committed to anti-racism and equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and / or persistently excluded groups identified under the Human Rights Code.

One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and / or contact the Sanya’k̓ula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at .

Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan : A First Nations Case Study.