On-Call Dental Assistant - Integrated Care Center

HealthRIGHT 360 gives hope, builds health, and changes lives for people in need by providing comprehensive, integrated, compassionate care that includes primary medical care, mental health services, and substance use disorder treatment.
 

The Integrated Care Center Clinic is a federally qualified health centers that provide primary care, behavioral health, addiction treatment, psychiatry, dental care, and more. We provide care to those most in need including those who are suffering from homelessness, mental illness, substance use, mental illness, and chronic medical conditions. We provide team based care in an integrated care setting. We are looking for a mission driven, service leader who works well in a team, has experience with managing and supporting staff, champions quality improvement, leads change, and is excited to innovate.

Benefits and perks:

• HR360 offers a robust benefits package, including PTO, 15 paid holidays, commuter benefits, retirement plans, and more!
• Employees qualify for public loan forgiveness programs
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Work with mission driven, compassionate colleagues and make a difference every day in the work that you do.

Job Overview

This is a union position.

Haight Ashbury Free Clinic (HAFC) at the Integrated Care Center (ICC) offers primary medical, dental, substance use disorder treatment, and mental health services guided by the principle that "Healthcare is a Right, Not a Privilege." HAFC/ICC provides compassionate, nonjudgmental care to patients who experience homelessness, poverty, and addiction. Our providers have specialized expertise in preventative health, acute and chronic conditions, treatment of infectious diseases, psychiatry, and addiction medicine.

Under the general supervision of a Dentist in a clinical setting, assists the dentist in providing dental treatment.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the provision of high-quality care within the scope of service consistent with accepted standards of care for dental assistants.
  
• Prepare each operatory and patient for treatment.
  
• Take and prepares radiographs using digital technology.
  
• Provide active chairside assistance to the Dentist and anticipates the provider’s needs.
  
• At the conclusion of patient care, assists the patient, clears the work site and prepares for the next patient. Monitors the flow of laboratory cases.
  
• Monitor and record sterilization cycles and follows proper infection control protocols for the practice.
  
• Help to manage patient flow in clinic.
  
• Schedule dental appointments both in-person and over the telephone.
  
• Retrieve messages from voicemail and fax/message inbox and forward to appropriate personnel via telephone encounter if applicable.
  
• Verify patient eligibility and receive patient payments such as co-pays, outstanding balances, guarantor payments and assign them to the correct patient accounts.
  
• Manage incoming and outgoing patient documentation such as consents, signing treatment plans, patient referrals, ROI’s, medical clearances, lab and supply invoices and scanning as needed.
  
• Assist Patient access coordinators as time allows.
• Ability to place topical medications.
• Ability to set up and prepare dental equipment and instrumentation in accordance with established regulations and guidelines.
• Ability to manage the dental office infection control plan to meet OSHA, CDC and ADA standards.
• Maintains and expands current level of dental assistant skill and knowledge by periodically attending continuing education programs.
• Team player.
• Accepts and offers guidance and supervision as appropriate.

Education and Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Required: 

• High School Diploma or GED.
• CPR/BLS certification.
• Radiation Safety certificate (X-ray license).
• Infection control course certificate.

Additional, but not required:

• Coronal Polish certificate.
• Pit and Fissure Sealants certificate.
• Fluent Spanish language skills is highly desired.

Covid-19 vaccine and booster is required for this position.  Exemptions are not accepted.
 
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.