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Registered Dental Assistant
Employer
XFINITY DENTALDate Posted
September 30, 2024Languages
English-
Location Edmonton, AB
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Earnings $28.00 hourly
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Work Hours 37.5 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 1  Vacancy
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Closing Date Oct 14, 2024
Employer
XFINITY DENTAL
Languages
English
Education
- College/CEGEP
- or equivalent experience
Work setting
- Dental practice
- Willing to relocate
Tasks
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Order dental and office supplies
- Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
- Perform reception and clerical duties
- Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
- Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
- Polish teeth and clinical crowns and apply fluoride and sealant
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Perform intra-oral duties
- Take and develop X-rays
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Invoice patients for dental services
- Fabricate and place temporary crowns and restorations
- Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
- MS Office
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Membership in the Canadian Dental Assistants Association
- Registration with provincial or territorial authorities
- Certification by the National Dental Assisting Examining Board
Specialization or experience
Specialized environmental skills and knowledge
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
- Large workload
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Judgement
- Team player
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Reliability
Screening questions
- Are you available for shift or on-call work?
- Are you available for the advertised start date?
- Are you currently a student?
- Are you currently legally able to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you currently reside in proximity to the advertised location?
- Do you have previous experience in this field of employment?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
Experience
1 year to less than 2 years
Green job
Involves duties and responsibilities that lead to positive environmental outcomes
Health benefits
Dental plan
Financial benefits
Bonus
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Paid time off (volunteering or personal days)
- Team building opportunities
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Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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Interest in copying information to record dental procedures performed, order dental and office supplies, prepare dental instruments and filling materials, and to invoice patients; and in taking preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
- SOCIAL
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Interest in assisting dentists in patient care and treatment; and in educating patients concerning oral hygiene
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in operating equipment to sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment; in taking and developing X-rays, polishing teeth and clinical crowns and applying fluoride and sealant, and to fabricating temporary crowns and restorations
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It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.
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