Registered Dental Assistant

Responsibilities

• Welcome customers in the dental office
  
• Prepare customers for treatments or checkups ensuring their comfort
  
• Select and set up instruments, equipment and material needed
  
• Sterilize instruments according to regulations
  
• Assist the dentist through 4-handed dentistry
  
• Undertake lab tasks as instructed
  
• Provide oral hygiene and post-operative care instructions
  
• Keep the dental room clean and well-stocked
  
• Schedule appointments
  
• Maintain accurate patient records and assist with payment procedures
  

Skills

• Proven experience as dental assistant
  
• Knowledge of dental instruments and sterilization methods
  
• Understanding of health & safety regulations
  
• Ability to perform regulated non-surgical tasks like coronal polishing is a plus
  
• Good computer skills
  
• Excellent communication and people skills
  
• Attention to detail
  
• Well-organized and reliable
  
• High school diploma; graduating from dental assistant school is preferred
  
• Additional certification or training is an asset (e.g. EFDA)