Work must be completed at the physical location. There is no option to work remotely.
Work setting
- Dental practice
Responsibilities
Tasks
- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- Prepare plaster models and moulds
- Supervise dental assistants in their health care functions
- Train other dental laboratory assistants
- Order dental and office supplies
- Prepare dental instruments and filling materials
- Maintain and order supplies
- Perform reception and clerical duties
- Sterilize and maintain instruments and equipment
- Educate patients concerning oral hygiene
- Prepare wax bite-blocks and impression trays
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Perform intra-oral duties
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Invoice patients for dental services
Credentials
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Membership in the Canadian Dental Assistants Association
Experience and specialization
Technical expertise (dental)
- Plastering
Equipment, eystems and controls experience
- Medical and biomedical equipment and systems
Additional information
Personal suitability
- Client focus
- Effective interpersonal skills
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Team player
- Accurate
- Dependability
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Reliability