Chair-side Assistant

Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 35 to 40 hours per week
- Education:

- Expérience:

- **Education**:

- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 3 months to less than 1 year
- **Work setting**:

- Dental practice
- Independently owned business
- **Tasks**:

- Prepare patients for dental examinations
- 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
- Schedule and confirm appointments
- Perform intra-oral duties
- Record dental procedures performed on patients
- Invoice patients for dental services
- Take preliminary impressions for diagnostic casts
- **Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses**:

- Membership in the Canadian Dental Assistants Association
- Registration with provincial or territorial authorities
- Certification by the National Dental Assisting Examining Board
- **Computer and technology knowledge**:

- MS Windows
- **Area of specialization**:

- Crowns and bridges
- **Security and safety**:

- Criminal record check
- **Work conditions and physical capabilities**:

- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Ability to distinguish between colours
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
- Hand-eye co-ordination
- Large workload
- **Personal suitability**:

- Client focus
- Flexibility
- Excellent oral communication
- Interpersonal awareness
- Reliability
- **Screening questions**:

- Are you authorized to work in Canada?
- Are you willing to relocate for this position?
- Do you have experience working in this field?
- Do you have the above-indicated required certifications?
- **Experience**:

- 1 year to less than 2 years
- **Health benefits**:

- Dental plan
- Disability benefits
- Health care plan
- Paramedical services coverage
- **Financial benefits**:

- Life insurance
- **Other benefits**:

- Team building opportunities
- Travel insurance
- **Support for newcomers and refugees**:

- Supports social and labour market integration of newcomers and/or refugees (for example: facilitating access to community resources, language training, skills training, etc.)
- Recruits newcomers and/or refugees who were displaced by a conflict or a natural disaster (for example: Ukraine, Afghanistan, etc.)
- Supports newcomers and/or refugees with foreign credential recognition
- Offers mentorship programs that pair newcomers and/or refugees with experienced employees
- Provides diversity and cross-cultural trainings to create a welcoming work environment for newcomers and/or refugees
- Does not require Canadian work experience
- **Support for youths**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports youth employment
- Offers on-the-job training tailored to youth
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for youth
- Provides awareness training to employees to create a welcoming work environment for youth
- **Support for Indigenous people**:

- Participates in a government or community program or initiative that supports Indigenous people
- Offers mentorship, coaching and/or networking opportunities for Indigenous workers
- Develops and maintains relationships with indigenous communities, indigenous-owned businesses and organizations
- Provides cultural competency training and/or awareness training to all employees to create a welcoming work environment for Indigenous workers