Experienced Lead Dental Assistant

Key Responsibilities

• Provide excellent chairside assistance to the dentist

• Prepare treatment rooms and instruments for scheduled procedures

• Assist with restorative, crown and bridge, endodontic, periodontal, oral surgery, and other dental procedures as applicable

• Take digital X-rays and other diagnostic images as permitted by Connecticut regulations

• Maintain proper sterilization and infection-control procedures

• Set up and turn over operatories efficiently

• Maintain adequate supplies and communicate when supplies need to be ordered

• Monitor equipment and report maintenance issues

• Assist with maintaining OSHA and HIPAA compliance

• Keep the clinical area clean, organized, and fully prepared

• Help ensure the daily schedule stays on time
• Ordering Supplies

• Serve as the senior resource for the dental assisting team

• Train and mentor new dental assistants and interns

• Help establish and maintain consistent clinical protocols

• Coordinate daily duties among dental assistants

• Monitor sterilization and infection-control procedures

• Help maintain efficient room turnover and workflow

• Communicate clinical needs to the dentist and office manager

• Assist with ordering and maintaining dental supplies

• Help identify workflow issues and recommend solutions

• Support a positive, professional, team-oriented workplace

• Lead by example and maintain high standards of patient care

Qualifications

• 3+ years of dental assisting experience preferred

• Previous lead or senior dental assistant experience strongly preferred

• Strong chairside assisting skills

• Experience with digital radiography

• Knowledge of sterilization and infection-control procedures

• Strong organizational and multitasking abilities

• Excellent communication skills

• Ability to train and mentor other dental assistants

• Dependable, professional, and punctual

• Comfortable working in a fast-paced dental environment

• Current CPR/BLS certification preferred

• Appropriate Connecticut dental assisting/radiology credentials as required

• Experience with dental practice-management software preferred

The Ideal Candidate

Compensation