Dental Assistant - COUNTRY DOCTOR COMMUNITY CLINIC - Seattle, WA

Permanent Dental Assistant Job

Seattle, WA

Job Description

Dental Assistant

Salary: The salary range for this position is $23.50 – $35.08, per hour, payable bi-weekly. Depending on relevant years of experience, the salary scale is between steps 0 and 19. We use the resume submitted on your application to determine your hourly wage, so please ensure your all relevant work experience is listed in your resume.

Sign on Bonus: $1000.00, Paid in installments
About Us Seattle Roots Community Health 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 in 1971 by residents of the Capitol 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.
Seattle Roots 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 best serves these populations, we strive to promote policies that enable us to work effectively in all cross-cultural situations, with patients, coworkers, and the community.

Our Mission and Commitment to Social Justice We remain committed to health equity and our founding principle of social justice. Every day our actions are guided by our mission: to improve the health of our community by providing high-quality, caring, culturally appropriate primary health care that addresses the needs of people, regardless of their ability to pay. At Carolyn Downs and Country Doctor, health care is a right, not a privilege.

What You’ll Be Doing At 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.

You’ll need these qualifications

You’ve earned a High School diploma or GED equivalent.
You have 1-2 years of experience as a Dental Assistant or have successfully completed a Dental Assistant Training Program.
You hold a current Dental Assistant certification through the WA State Department of Health
You’re able to learn and use electronic medical records (EMR) software
You bring proficiency with Microsoft Office, Google products, and working on personal computers
You’re comfortable working with people from diverse cultures, backgrounds, and lifestyles
You’ve been fully vaccinated for Covid-19


It would be nice if

You can read, write, and speak Spanish, to provide interpretation for our patients
You bring experience with Epic EMR software


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 of up to 80% of the cost of an ORCA pass, plus an additional match of 50% of the employee's contribution up to 8% after one year of employment. (Ex. if employee contributes at 4%, Seattle Roots will match with an additional 2%, plus the safe harbor contribution totaling a 8% contribution to the employee's 401k) We’ve got you covered!

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