Dental Assistant

Dr Kallas Dental Center PLC

Vienna, VA

$16 to $20 Hourly
Full-Time

Job Description

About Us

We strive to provide our community with the best dental care possible – all with genuine enthusiasm, great compassion, warmth, and a commitment to quality. It is our goal to maintain a caring environment that is respectful and gracious to all. Our shared values include:

Compassion
Respect
Excellence
Dedication
Innovation
Integrity
Trust
Grace

Our entire team is dedicated to delivering outstanding dental care while making each patient as comfortable as possible. We pursue excellence through continuing education and using the latest dental technology to provide you with the highest level of dental treatment and customer service. With your trust, it is our mission to deliver this care with first-class, five-star service.

A Day in the Life of an Dental Assistant at Smile Makers

Arriving 30 minutes before start time to be ready to go at 10 AM
Working with a driven team of 5 other Dental Assistants.
Caring for patients who are in all surrounding of Northern Virginia
Working in an office that is diverse where the team altogether speaks more than 10 languages!
Treating every patient like family.
Seeing between 25-50 patients each day
Assisting through procedures in all areas of the clinical space, i.e room setup/breakdown, four handed dentistry, sterilization, etc
Contributing to supply and inventory management
Using all equipment with care and ownership
Improving daily on essential tasks such as taking quality x rays, suctioning, and
patients care
Supporting the hygienist is all aspects of preventative and periodontal procedures
Completing opening and closing duties as team

This role is for you if...

You love working in a fast pace environment
You thrive when there are learning opportunities
You enjoy constant communication
You love working with friendly patients
You can’t live without modern technology
You absolutely love a diverse team
You want to learn and train to improve your assisting skills on a daily basis
You understand the importance of treating others like you want to be treated
Your attention to detail is exceptional and you prefer order and organization
You are a self starter and take initiative everyday
You are driven by results, solutions, and impact

This role is not for you if...

You prefer working solo as opposed to on a team
You are uncomfortable being in close proximity with a wide variety of people daily
Change makes you uncomfortable and you often resist it
You treat this position as a job and not a career
Does not manage time well or enjoy multitasking
Dreading the work rather than learning
Negative attitude and mindset

What Winning Looks Like:

We support you in winning by reviewing metrics related to sterilization protocols,

treatment case acceptance, reappointment rate, and meeting provider production

goals weekly and providing interactive support and training to

set you up to succeed!

Staying on time throughout the work day

Your dental skills have expanded to take on more accelerated tasks and procedures

Align with Dentist goals
NP reappointment
Treatment or Case Acceptance

Deal Breakers

An individual who limits themselves from learning
Not dedicated

Everyday is a new day to learn something new and be open minded to help serve the community. Being open to meeting people from all over the world is a must, we are very diverse. Lastly, the candidate would need to be In alignment with core values to execute every day you enter Smile Makers with compassion, respect, empathy, dedication, innovation, integrity, trust, and grace.

What’s Next?

Still want to join our team? Great! If you enjoy working with driven team members and

are looking to make a difference in the community, apply today! We take culture very

seriously, and because of that, when it’s right, it’s right. If after reading the full job

description you are thinking, “this sounds PERFECT” for me, then we want to get to

I know you. When you join the team here at Smile Makers Dental center you can expect

everyday to be a fun adventure that you get to experience with a driven group of really

cool people. We strive to be innovative and hope you will too.

To apply for this position please send your resume to the email applynow@smilemakersdc.com.

If we think you’re a great fit we will reach out to you within 24-48 hours to set

up a virtual interview.