About Us

We strive to provide our community with the best dental care possible – all with genuine enthusiasm, great compassion, warmth, and a commitment to quality. It is our goal to maintain a caring environment that is respectful and gracious to all. Our shared values include:

• Compassion
• Respect
• Excellence
• Dedication
• Innovation
• Integrity
• Trust
• Grace

Our entire team is dedicated to delivering outstanding dental care while making each patient as comfortable as possible. We pursue excellence through continuing education and using the latest dental technology to provide you with the highest level of dental treatment and customer service. With your trust, it is our mission to deliver this care with first-class, five-star service.

A Day in the Life of an Dental Assistant at Smile Makers

• Arriving 30 minutes before start time to be ready to go at 10 AM
• Working with a driven team of 5~ other Dental Assistants.
• Caring for patients who are in all surrounding of Northern Virginia
• Working in an office that is diverse where the team altogether speaks more than 10 languages!
• Treating every patient like family.
• Seeing multiple patients each day
• Assisting through procedures in all areas of the clinical space, i.e room setup/breakdown, four handed dentistry, sterilization, etc
• Contributing to supply and inventory management
• Using all equipment with care and ownership
• Improving daily on essential tasks such as taking quality x rays, suctioning, and
• patients care
• Supporting the hygienist in all aspects of preventative and periodontal procedures
• Completing opening and closing duties as team

This role is for you if...

• You love working in a fast pace environment
• You thrive when there are learning opportunities
• You enjoy constant communication
• You love working with friendly patients
• You can’t live without modern technology
• You absolutely love a diverse team
• You want to learn and train to improve your assisting skills on a daily basis
• You understand the importance of treating others like you want to be treated
• Your attention to detail is exceptional and you prefer order and organization
• You are a self starter and take initiative everyday
• You are driven by results, solutions, and impact

This role is not for you if...

• You prefer working solo as opposed to on a team
• You are uncomfortable being in close proximity with a wide variety of people daily
• Change makes you uncomfortable and you often resist it
• You treat this position as a job and not a career
• Does not manage time well or enjoy multitasking
• Dreading the work rather than learning
• Negative attitude and mindset

What Winning Looks Like:

We support you in winning by reviewing metrics related to sterilization protocols, treatment case acceptance, reappointment rate, and meeting provider production goals weekly and providing interactive support and training to set you up to succeed!

Staying on time throughout the work day. Your dental skills have expanded to take on more accelerated tasks and procedures

• Align with Dentist goals
• NP reappointment
• Treatment or Case Acceptance

Deal Breakers

• An individual who limits themselves from learning
• Not dedicated

Everyday is a new day to learn something new and be open minded to help serve the community. Being open to meeting people from all over the world is a must, we are very diverse. Lastly, the candidate would need to be In alignment with core values to execute every day you enter Smile Makers with compassion, respect, empathy, dedication, innovation, integrity, trust, and grace.

Benefits

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Benefits
• 401k
• Paid Holidays
• Paid Time Off (PTO)

As a sign of our appreciation for your commitment, we offer a signing bonus of $1,000. The bonus will be disbursed as follows:

• $300 at 90 days of successful employment
• $300 at six months of successful employment
• $400 at one year of successful employment

What’s Next?

Still want to join our team? Great! If you enjoy working with driven team members and are looking to make a difference in the community, apply today! We take culture very seriously, and because of that, when it’s right, it’s right. If after reading the full job description you are thinking, “this sounds PERFECT” for me, then we want to get to I know you. When you join the team here at Smile Makers Dental center you can expect everyday to be a fun adventure that you get to experience with a driven group of really cool people. We strive to be innovative and hope you will too.

To apply for this position please send your resume to the email applynow@smilemakersdc.com.

If we think you’re a great fit we will reach out to you within 24-48 hours to set up a virtual interview.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $16.00 - $22.00 per hour

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekends as needed

Experience:

• Dental office: 1 year (Required)
• Dental assisting: 1 year (Required)

License/Certification:

• X-Ray Certification (Preferred)

Ability to Relocate:

• Fairfax, VA: Relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: In person