DENTAL ASSISTANT 2

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The School of Dentistry shares the University’s overall mission to generate, disseminate, and preserve knowledge, and to serve the community. The School is an integral part of the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center and is an oral health care center of excellence serving the people of the State of Washington and the Pacific Northwest. Our primary mission, through educational, research, and service programs, is to prepare students to be competent oral health care professionals. The School’s research programs contribute to the fundamental understanding of biologic processes and to the behavioral, biomedical, and clinical aspects of oral health. The service mission is to improve the health and well-being of the people of the community and the region through outreach programs that are especially attentive to minority and underserved populations. The School values diversity in its students, staff, faculty, and patient populations. It seeks to foster an environment of mutual respect where objectivity, imaginative inquiry, and the free exchange of ideas can flourish to facilitate personal development, professionalism, and a strong sense of self-worth.

POSITION PURPOSE
The Department of Pediatric Dentistry at the School of Dentistry has an outstanding opportunity for a full time Dental Assistant (NE S SEIU 925 Non Supv). Under the general direction of the Dental Assistant Supervisor, he/she will be responsible for performing expanded dental assistant duties in a dental or hospital setting. For example, taking impressions for study models, mechanical polishing to amalgam restorations, placing matrix and wedge, and fabricating, placing temporary fillings. Instruct students in expanded dental assistant duties, proper utilization of a dental assistance, instrument exchanges and related functions and activities in a dental setting; may coordinate support activities such as patient assignments, scheduling and record maintenance in a dental clinic. The Dental Assistant 2 will have extensive interaction with his/her supervisor, the Clinic Operations Manager, the Clinic Chief, Department Chair, and/or clinic operations staff.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinic Duties (95%)