Dental Assistant

Adam Dental Clinic
Yellowknife
CAD 60,000 - 80,000
Job description

Work Term: Permanent

Work Language: English

Hours: 40 hours per week

Education: No degree, certificate or diploma

Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work setting

  • Dental practice
  • Independently owned business

Tasks

  • Prepare patients for dental examinations
  • Prepare plaster models and moulds
  • Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
  • Maintain and order supplies
  • Perform reception and clerical duties
  • Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
  • Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
  • Schedule and confirm appointments
  • Perform intra-oral duties
  • Take and develop X-rays
  • Record dental procedures performed on patients
  • Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts

Security and safety

  • Immunization records
  • Bondable
  • Criminal record check

Work conditions and physical capabilities

  • Fast-paced environment
  • Work under pressure
  • Tight deadlines
  • Repetitive tasks
  • Physically demanding
  • Manual dexterity
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to distinguish between colours
  • Combination of sitting, standing, walking
  • Standing for extended periods
  • Hand-eye co-ordination

Personal suitability

  • Client focus
  • Efficient interpersonal skills
  • Flexibility
  • Judgement
  • Team player
  • Accurate
  • Dependability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Initiative
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Reliability

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

  • Bonus
  • Life insurance

Long term benefits

  • Long-term care insurance

Other benefits

  • Learning/training paid by employer
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