Your dream career awaits! Direct your background in healthcare or other people-centric fields (health sciences, biology, communications, or major geared towards helping others) into the most rewarding and interesting career of dentistry. Your education, soft skills, and preference for "hands-on" work may be the perfect foundation for a career that creates beautiful and confident smiles. Enjoy an amazing work schedule, interesting fast-paced work, close-knit, and caring career! The highly reputable dental practice of Dr. Joyce Kim is eager to add another talented team member to their close-knit, family-like team. Our practice has been growing so fast, we need another staff member to train as a "Dental Assistant" to help the team accommodate their busy patient schedule. If your career goals include working with your hands, cultivating meaningful long-term relationships and applying your exemplary attention to detail and communication skills to make a positive impact on patients, you are likely reading your most favorite career position ever! Who can apply? If you have a bachelor's degree (or core classes) in a "science or people" focused major, surgical tech or medical assistant experience… please, apply! We also values candidates with steady track records in restaurant, retail, or general business who possess an eager interest to direct their career into healthcare. If you have prior training or experience in dentistry, a stable work history, and excellent references, you are welcomed to apply. Can you imagine yourself working as a dental assistant?

Common tasks include:

Greeting and seating patients; conversing and creating meaningful relationships with patients. Assisting Dr.

Kim during treatment:

suctioning, passing instruments and materials, providing post operative instructions. Educating patients about treatment, post-operative, and preventive care. Providing expanded duty dental services as governed by the Georgia Board of Dentistry, including taking X-Rays and making dental impressions. Participating in continuing education programs. Managing dental instruments, setting up and breaking down rooms for procedures. Do you match the criteria we are seeking?

Excellent writing skills:

Candidate must demonstrate excellent sentence structure, spelling, and accurate composition so that clinical notes describing patient services are charted accurately. Fast keyboarding and solid computer skills: Do consider yourself "software savvy?" Customer service skills: Easily expresses empathy and models high and traditional standards of professionalism. Preference to work in a true team setting.

Excellent hand-eye coordination:

can you thread a needle, manipulate small items with your hands, at ease with arts and crafts? Passionate desire to work in the healthcare field and help others. Interest in dental anatomy and biology: Must like teeth!

Excellent references:

Stable, Reliable, Dependable. Able-bodied to comfortably and frequently maneuver a fast-paced working environment; if you consciously do NOT want a desk job, you are geared like a dental assistant. Candidates with an associate or bachelor's degree or completion of foundation-building courses in college are preferred. Surgical techs, vet techs, medical assistants, pharmacy technicians or related professionals often find their rewarding, permanent career positions in dentistry. Enjoy an amazing work schedule! This position averages 35 hours / week on a four-day workweek! Every Friday is off; No evenings, no weekends!

APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS

You have the option to apply directly through Indeed. Or, you can

STAND OUT FROM THE CROWD IF YOU LOVE THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS

POSITION and send your detailed resume (doc, docx, or pdf)

DIRECTLY

to Staffing Consultants Carol Paige or Paige Healey at the address below written intentionally to prevent internet spam grabbers: DentalStaffingConsultant at Gmail dot com Qualified candidates will initially be contacted via email. Check your spam, should your enthusiastic security settings zap our correspondence! To streamline our search efforts, respectfully, we request no calls, faxes, or resume delivery to our office.

Pay:

$18.00 - $20.00 per hour

Benefits:

401(k) Paid time off

Work Location:

In person