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Dental Assistant
Salary: $23.04- $34.39 Per hour, payable bi-weekly. The salary scale for this position is between steps 0 and 19, depending on experience. This is a non-exempt, full-time, union position. Applicants must pass an extensive background check.
About UsCountry Doctor Community Health Centers (CDCHC) is a not-for-profit organization that operates two primary care clinics, an After-Hours Clinic, two School-Based Health Centers, a low barrier Medication-assisted treatment clinic, and a Dental Clinic. Our Carolyn Downs Family Medical Center was founded in 1970 by the Seattle Black Panther Party in Seattle’s Central District. Our Country Doctor Community Clinic was established 1971 by residents of the Capital Hill neighborhood in conjunction with the Seattle Liberation Front. The primary goal of each clinic was to provide low-barrier, high-quality healthcare services and promote social justice.
CDCHC is passionate about serving patients of all ethnicities, races, gender identities, languages, and backgrounds and employing individuals who are equally committed to this mission. To ensure our organization is best serving these populations, we strive to promote policies that enable us to work effectively in all cross-cultural situations, with patients, with coworkers, and with the community.
Our Mission and Commitment to Social JusticeWe remain committed to health equity and our founding principle of social justice. Every day, our actions are guidedby our mission: to improve the health of our community by providing high-quality, caring, culturally appropriateprimary health care that addresses the needs of people, regardless of their ability to pay. At Carolyn Downsand Country Doctor, health care is a right, not a privilege.
What You’ll Be DoingAt CDCHC Dental Clinic, an important part of our mission is ensuring patients have a caring, friendly provider experience. As a Dental Assistant, your stellar interpersonal and organizational skills will be key to achieving this experience. You’ll be an integral coordinator for the Dental provider, monitoring the patient flow for Dental appointments and ensuring rooms and instruments are disinfected and ready to go. You’ll engage with patients to obtain their vital signs, present complaints, and document those in electronic medical records. Our patients will count on you to assist the Dental providers, expertly obtain digital dental radiographs (x-rays), and direct them on ordered follow-up procedures. Patients and providers alike will appreciate your knack for keeping things running smoothly in our fast-paced clinics.
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Benefits We provide a robust suite of benefits, including the choice of three medical plans, two dental plans, long-term disability, life, and other insurance programs. You’ll have access to flexible spending accounts, a subsidy up to 80 % of the cost of an ORCA pass, and a generous safe harbor 401K plan with a 3 % base employer contribution plus an additional 2% discretionary match. We’ve got you covered!
Full Time
$45k-56k (estimate)
11/21/2023
05/27/2024
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Basic knowledge of dental medicine.
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