Job description
Passionate, forward-thinking, hardworking person needed to join ROCK STAR dental team!
Must assist Hygienists in seating patients and sterilizing and disinfecting rooms and instruments.
Multi-tasker who can assist the team with running their schedule smoothly and giving the patients the best possible experience.
Responsibilities and Duties include following proper standard precautions while in decontamination and sterilization areas.
Manage sterilization processes: Decontaminates and sterilizes instruments, dental supplies, and equipment and assembles, wraps, and sterilizes trays of instruments. Monitors biological and chemical wash solutions to ensure quality and consistency for decontamination of instruments and medical equipment. Sorts mismatched sets of instruments, trays, and medical equipment and promptly makes them available to dental providers. Restocks, labels, and maintains inventory. Performs environmental maintenance duties and maintains inventory levels in sterile processing, dental treatment rooms, and equipment storage areas.Verifies that equipment functions properly. Maintains a clean work area.
Assists with maintaining established departmental policies and procedures, objectives, quality improvement, safety, and environmental and infection control standards.
General responsibilities: Maintain patient confidence and protect operations by keeping information confidential. Comply with procedures, rules, and regulations to maintain a safe and clean working environment. Adhere to infection-control policies and protocols to protect patients and employees. Use sound judgment in patient communication. Provide backup for other auxiliary staff when needed.
Team functions: Maintain and improve professional and technical knowledge. Works in compliance with all medical policies and standards, such as OSHA and HIPPA. Performs other reasonably related duties as assigned by supervisor or manager. Exercises good judgment in bringing any issues necessary to the manager's attention. Constantly strives to achieve excellence in the day-to-day operations of North Creek Dental Care.
Qualifications and Skills: Demonstrates understanding of the overall purpose of clinical care and the importance of support staff. Able to demonstrate judgment, patience, integrity, organization, and prioritization in a multi-task environment. Needs to have attention to detail, dependability, listening and communication skills, and flexibility.
Respect – Our patients, the office, your teammates and yourself. Treat patients as if they are your best friend. Treat the office as if it is your home. Treat your teammates as if they are your equal. Treat yourself as if you want to be respected.
Responsibility – Be responsible for keeping yourself, your work area and your job duties impeccable. Do not leave anything for tomorrow that can be done today.
Excellence – We strive for excellence in everything we do. From our behaviors top our communication to our results, we do not settle.
Reliable – Our patients and our teammates can always count on us to be present and do the absolute best we possibly can. We will be there for each other
Passionate – It will not be acceptable to bring our negative attitude or words into the office. We will find a way to be energized, excited and passionate about caring for our patients, office, teammates and ourselves. We passionately believe dentistry IS the BEST investment ANYONE can make in themselves.
Growth Mindset – We will always be stiving to be better than we were the day before. Every day is an opportunity to learn something new or improve the way in which we deliver our passion, energy and value to our patients and team.
Commitment – We will honor the commitments made. If we cannot get it done or do an impeccable job with it, then we will not commit to doing it. If we fall short of a commitment, for any reason, we will not deny, defend, lay blame or make excuses. We will openly acknowledge that we missed it and re-commit.
Proactive – We will always be proactive in finding solutions to any problems. It will not be acceptable to complain or gripe without offering at least one solution to the perceived problem
Team
Respect – We promise to respect our patients time, their needs and their wishes. We are here to serve you and give you the very best dental experience possible.
Responsibility – We promise to always use the very best products, latest technology and maintain the best education with our team so that we can give the best care and service to you. We take this responsibility very serious.
Excellence – We strive for excellence in everything we do. We will not compromise. If you do not have the best dental experience ever then we want to know about it so we can make it even better the next time.
Reliable – We stand behind our dentistry and our service. If you are not 100% satisfied with your service or dentistry we will make it right.
Passionate – Every team member at North Creek Dental Care is passionate about dentistry and serving our patients. We absolutely believe dentistry is the best investment you can ever make in yourself.
Growth Mindset – We are committed to Constant and Never-Ending Improvement. Our goal is to the be the very best and most widely respected dental office in all of Chicago. We want to be here for your family and friends and we want you to invite all of them to come enjoy the quality dentistry and service we provide.
Commitment – We are committed to your total health. We will always provide you with the full view of how your dental care can impact your total health, mind, body & soul. We will never compromise.
Proactive – We will always be proactive in helping you identify and care for any dental needs you have. We believe that by catching issues early we help keep you healthy while also improving how you feel about your smile.
