Dental Assistant
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About the Role
NMC Health plc seeks a Dental Assistant to support dentists in all aspects of patient care, including preparing instruments, charting, mixing materials, and ensuring patient comfort.
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Responsibilities
- Support dentists in all aspects of patient care, including preparing instruments and mixing materials
- Take notes from dentists’ dictation for records and charting during examinations
- Ensure patient comfort during treatment
- Clean, sterilize, and organize surgical areas and equipment
- Keep complete and accurate patient dental records
- Assist in taking dental radiographs (Intra Oral, OPG, Cephalometric)
- Assist the Dentist to obtain written consent from patients
- Ensure proper dental materials, equipment and consumables are well maintained and available
Requirements
- Valid DOH/DHA Dental Assistant License
- Bachelor’s Degree as Dental Nurse / Dental Assistant / Nursing
- Minimum of Two (2) years’ experience in any dental facility in the UAE as a dental assistant
- Valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification from American Heart Association (AHA)
- Excellent Communication in English
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Role Overview
- This position reports directly to the head of the department. The Dental Assistant supports the dentists in all aspects of patient care.
- This includes getting the appropriate instruments ready, take notes from dentists’ dictation for records, charting during examinations, preparing and mixing materials, providing support to patients during treatment, ensuring patient comfort and once the patient has left, the dental nurse tidies the
- In general practice, the dental assistant may be required to assists the reception staff for patient appointments, dental related paperwork, and dental insurance, meeting, reassuring and educating patients.
Responsibilities
- Exercise good judgment and maintain confidentiality in maintaining critical and sensitive information, records, and reports.
- Actively participate in the Medical Center’s on going Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Programs and other In Service Training Programs.
- Act as a translator if needed.
- Perform other duties and tasks assigned by the Head of Department scope of job.
- To accomplish high quality dental nursing whilst assisting the dentists s/he has been appointed with, in a safe and effective manner in accordance with the ‘Code of Ethics’.
- To perform all reasonable efforts to establish patient privacy and safety, ensuring that they are comfortable and relaxed during dental consultation, treatment and procedures.
- To ensure safe disposal of sharps and clinical waste.
- To establish and maintain productive working relationships with all members of the dental team.
- To ensure that the surgical areas and equipment are regularly cleaned, sterilized, organized and maintained.
- To keep complete and accurate patient dental records, correctly take and collate dental examination resources such as Intra Oral Peri apical X Rays, Orthopantomogram (OPG), Cephalo metric X Rays, laboratory results, etc.
- To assist the Dentist to obtain written consent and/or signature from patient and/or their consent giver/s before performing dental procedures.
- To execute proper workflow on assigned Nursing tasks such as handling General Anesthesia cases, preparing dental reports, etc.
Requirements
- Valid DOH/DHA Dental Assistant License.
- Bachelor’s Degree as Dental Nurse / Dental Assistant / Nursing.
- Minimum of Two (2) years’ experience in any dental facility in the UAE as a dental assistant.
- Excellent Communication in English. Knowledge in Arabic will be an advantage.
- Valid Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification from American Heart Association (AHA).
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