Dental Assistant

Prairie Band Health Services are looking for Dental Assistants to provide services at the Warm Springs Health & Wellness Center located in Warm Springs, OR 97761.

• Monday - Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30p.m
• Paid Holidays * PTO * Sick Pay
• Closed on weekends and all Federal Holidays.
• Experienced dental staff
• Adult and Pediatric
• Local candidates encouraged to apply

Check out our website for more info:  https://www.ihs.gov/portland/healthcarefacilities/warmsprings

Job Duties:

The dental assistant will perform dental duties to focus on providing dental support to providers in the dental clinic. Assist patients and clinic staff in the dental department. Supports a culture that fully embraces internal, external and organizational customer service. The dental assistant restores teeth after preparation has been accomplished. This includes selection, contouring and placement of matrices, placement of bases and liners and packing, carving and polishing routine and complex alloy restorations, which include pin retention and cusp build-ups.

• Place and finish routine and complex composite restorations, which include multiple surfaces and angle replacement
• Place and contour temporary restorations
• Fabricate and place temporary crowns and bridges
• Retract gingivae from teeth with retraction cord in preparation for final crown and bridge impressions.
• Provide assistance and fully anticipates the dentist's need for various instruments, materials, and service. Typical duties include:
• Applies endodontic medicaments to teeth as prescribed by the dentist.
• Applies desensitizing and removes sutures and takes preliminary impressions for study models.
• Correctly exposes, processes, and mounts intra and extra-oral radiographs.

Additional Duties: 

Additional duties and responsibilities may be added to this job description at any time. The job description does not state or imply that these are the only activities to be performed by the employee holding this position.  Employees are required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related responsibilities as requested by their supervisor.

Indian Preference Exercised: 

Prairie Band, LLC is subject to Title 22: Employment Code of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. In accordance with Title 22, this position is designated as a TIER 2 position. Preference will be given to individuals to the extent required pursuant to Section 22-2-4(B).