South Central Family Health Center

Register Dental Assistant

South Central Family Health Center  •  $52k - $59k/yr  •  Los Angeles, CA (Onsite)  •  4 months ago
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Job Description

Title: Registered Dental Assistant

Base Salary Range: $51,541 - $59,097 plus benefits

FTE Full-time, Non-Exempt

Seeking for a skilled and dedicated Register Dental Assistant who wants to make a difference in our community. We want to hear from you if you thrive in a fast-paced, caring, and compassionate environment!

Our Mission: The Mission of South Central Family Health Center is to improve the quality of life for the diverse Community of inner city Los Angeles by providing affordable and comprehensive health care and education in a welcoming and multicultural environment. To lead the way in health care in South Los Angeles, as the premier provider and employer of choice offering comprehensive, high quality, affordable, efficient and culturally responsive services.

General Summary: The Registered Dental Assistant (RDA) will provide basic supportive dental procedures under the supervision of a licensed dentist and will assist the dentist. The RDA will prepare materials and equipment for treatment and have the patient ready for the dentist. The ideal candidate will have to perform some of the following essential duties.

  • Prepare treatment room for patient
  • Provides instrumentation by sterilizing and delivering instruments to treatment area; positioning instruments for dentist’s access; suctioning; passing instruments
  • Provides materials by selecting, mixing, and placing materials on instruments and in the patient's mouth.
  • Provides diagnostic information by exposing and developing radiographic studies, pouring, trimming, and polishing study casts
  • Expose dental diagnostic x-rays
  • Ensure the health history is updated
  • Educates patients by giving oral hygiene, plaque control, and postoperative instructions.
  • Ensure operation of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; call for repairs, when necessary
  • Fabricates temporary restorations or custom impressions from preliminary impressions.
  • Makes preliminary impressions for study casts and occlusal registrations for mounting study casts.
  • Act in accordance with those set forth, per the applicable State's Dental Auxiliaries.
  • Clean each operatory in accordance with the American Dental Association guidelines.

Qualifications Licensure and Certifications:

  • High School Diploma or equivalent required
  • Successfully complete California Board-approved courses in radiation safety and coronal polishing,
  • Graduate from a California Board-approved RDA educational program
  • Licensure as an RDA to the Dental Board of California
  • Current BLS Certification required

Experience:

  • Must have a minimum of 1 to 3 years of experience working as RDA or CDA

Skills and Abilities:

  • Effectively communicate, in English, both verbally and written.
  • Require knowledge of dental/office equipment, and dental/medical terminology
  • Excellent interpersonal, organizational, and project management skills
  • Bilingual and Bi-literate English/Spanish preferred

Top benefits or perks: As a team member at South Central Family Health Center, you’ll enjoy competitive wages and generous benefits:

  • Benefits: Health care, dental, life insurance
  • 403 (b) Retirement plan
  • Education Reimbursement
  • Career development: Entry-level employees have opportunities to work in management, HR or other areas of the company
South Central Family Health Center

About South Central Family Health Center

For 40 years, South Central Family Health Center (SCFHC) has played a major role in filling the void for comprehensive health services in the historically underserved and uninsured population of South Los Angeles. The services provided directly address healthcare issues prevalent among geographically and economically disadvantaged individuals and families.

Since its inception, SCFHC has been in the forefront committed to addressing healthcare disparities in a competent and linguistically appropriate manner. SCFHC has more than 230 staff members of which 30 are clinicians who provide the direct medical services, treatment and care to patients.

In 2002, SCFHC was designated as a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) 330 Clinic. Such qualifications require adhering to strict Government standards of providing quality comprehensive service delivery and detailed reporting directly to the Federal Government.

We have expanded service locations to the city of Huntington Park, Cudahy and opened a school based health centers at Jefferson High School (L.A.) and at the Elizabeth Learning Center (Cudahy) as well as improved our clinics to better serve our patients’ needs. We want to provide quality healthcare to you and your family and we are striving to do the best we can to make your experience a pleasurable one.

SCFHC takes great pride in its leadership role as a community clinic and feels very fortunate to have talented Clinicians, Administrators, and a committed and visionary Board of Directors all working together for our patients.

Collectively, we will set SCFHC on a path of continued growth and expansion by reinforcing our mission to provide high-quality primary care and education services to the residents in South Los Angeles and Southeast Los Angeles County and beyond.

Industry
Healthcare & Social Services
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Los Angeles, CA
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
scfhc.org
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