Dental Assistant FDC SeaTac WA

About the job Dental Assistant FDC SeaTac, WA

Dental Assistant FDC SeaTac Work Location

Bureau of Prisons

Health Services Department

Federal Detention Center-SeaTac

2425 S 200th Street

SeaTac, WA 98198

• Citizenship Requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Clearance Requirements: National Background Check with Inquires,
• Fingerprints and Drug Screen.
• Type of Employment: Full-Time, 40 hours per week.
• Estimate Pay: $31.67/hour.
• Paid Time Off per Year: Up to 80-hours per year, occurring on day one.
• Sick Leave per Year: Up to 56-hours per year, occurring day one.
• Paid Federal Holidays: Eleven (11) Paid Federal Holidays

• Completed an approved Dental Assistant training program that satisfies the Washington State Department of Health training or experience requirements.
• Hold a current, active, full, and unrestricted license or registration as a Dental Assistant from the State of Washington.
• Have 6 months of applicable experience as evidenced on their resume,
• Possess specialty training from a licensed dentist and/or certification from an accredited Dental Assistant school.
• Knowledge of methods, techniques, and procedures to perform job activities on various types of medical equipment and automated systems.
• Knowledge of safety principles and infection control in the patient care environment.
• Possess the ability to relate and deal effectively with Physicians, Dentists, peers, inmates, and others; and, to recognize, report, and record changes in patient's physical and emotional condition.

• Function as infection control coordinator for the dental clinic.
• Ensure all work surfaces, equipment, materials, and instruments are properly disinfected/sterilized.
• Be knowledgeable in the most current approved methods and supplies for effective disinfection/sterilization. This is especially important for those patients with highly
• infectious diseases.
• Be able to operate all equipment necessary to complete this task.

• Evaluate procedure to be performed.
• Prepare anesthetic and appropriate instruments with sterile technique and drapes, evacuate surgical field, retract tissue, irrigate bone structure during rotary instrumentation, trim inter-dental papillae, cut sutures, pack surgical sites, remove sutures, treat localized osteitis, and give post-surgical instructions.

• Prepare operative environment, anesthetics, and instruments utilizing sterile technique.
• Maintain dry operative field; retract tissue; place bases, liners, and retainers with matrices; place, pack, and polish amalgam restoration; and place temporary restorative materials.

• Select appropriate trays and impression materials, take primary impression for study models and fabricate secondary trays and stabilized base plates with bite rims.
• Pour and trim all models and make minor denture repairs.

• Take and develop infra- and extra-oral radiographs, including bite wings and periapical films.
• Must also operate and process specialized panoramic equipment and films. Maintain and use automated processing equipment.

• Place rubber dam, sterilize field, remove temporary filling with rotary slow speed instrument, irrigate canals, and prepare appropriate medicaments.

• Applies desensitizing agents. Instructs patients in improving their oral hygiene. Performs coronal polishing.

• Establishes dental records and is responsible for the control of medical records while they are in the dental clinic.
• Dental Assistant is responsible for the scheduling of patients, preparing the callouts, and supervising inmate patients.
• Evaluates inmate worker performance and ensures that hours of work are accurately reflected per policy.

• Pour impressions, trim resulting models, and do initial preparation of lab prescription forms to be sent out.
• Responsible for sending and receiving all lab cases sent to Regional Lab and all resultant paperwork.
• Performs certain kinds of acrylic work, including but not limited to: minor denture repair, custom tray fabrication, wrought wire partial, relines, and rebases.
• Fabricates bite guards and surgical stints as required by the department.

• Maintains adequate stock levels of the expendable supplies used in the clinic.
• Prepares purchase requests for the purpose of ordering additional supplies.
• Responsible for maintenance and minor repair of dental equipment.

• Make statistical tabulation of all treatment rendered in the dental clinic and epidemiological statistics of inmates admitted to the facility.
• Prepares quarterly and annual reports to the Bureau from these statistics and other dental clinic activity.
• Perform secretarial/clerical duties for the Chief Dental O.