Dental Assistant JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for preparing patients, assisting dentists with dental care and treatments, dismissing patients, sterilizing instruments and maintaining dental treatment rooms. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 1. Escorts patients into dental treatment rooms and prepares patient and chart for the dentist. 2. Sanitizes all surfaces of dental room, ensures the proper equipment is working, discards disposable supplies and instruments, and prepares instruments and additional supplies for dental care and treatment to be provided for the next patient. 3. Performs and develops diagnostic x-rays and panoramic x-rays when necessary. 4. Assists the dentist by handling instruments and other supplies, suctioning, irrigating, teeth impressions, as directed by the dentist. 5. Dismisses patients when dental care and treatment is completed, providing any assistance to patients as needed. 6. Cleans patient area of dental treatment room, removing instruments and supplies and ensuring that the room is ready for the next patient. 7. Maintains appropriate inventory of supplies in each room. 8. Responsible to perform suctions on rotational period. 9. The Dental Assistant must be compliant and cooperate fully with the compliance program, including its standards of conduct and policies and procedures. Such compliance will be an element considered as part of the Dental Assistant s regular performance evaluation. Failure to comply with the written standards, which includes the failure to report any conduct or event that potentially violates legal or compliance requirements, will be met by the enforcement of disciplinary action, up to and including possible termination in accordance with compliance program. EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Ability to relate to people. Hours: Sundays 8-6 3/4x week 8:30-8 potentially Fridays 8-2:30 For more details or to apply reach out to Avizel@hiresolutionsny.com or call 845-422-8098 Ext 114 .