Strength Through Diversity

Ground breaking science. Advancing medicine. Healing made personal.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Provides clinical and administrative support by assisting dentist with procedures and patient coordination. Develops and implements systems to improve service delivery and daily management of work.

Duties and Responsibilities:
1. Answers phones, and keeps records as necessary.
2. Greets and prepares patients for the dentist’s examination.
3. Provides set-up of examination room and instruments in preparation for procedures using proper sterilization techniques established by infection control policies.
4. Performs chair-side duties and four handed dentistry.
5. Operates X-ray machines and develops X-rays.
6. Mixes compounds for cleaning or filling teeth.
7. Assists in coordinating patients including, but not limited to; confirming appointments, confirming surgeries, ensuring that all paperwork is completed and scanned into Dentrix.
8. Inventories, orders or re-stocks departmental supplies.
9. Communicate with appropriate staff regarding patient’s arrival, and ensure that patient’s record is available for the dentist.
10. Review status of waiting room on a routine basis and ensure that patients are kept advised of wait times.
11. May initiate reminder phones calls for next day appointments.
12. Performs other duties as required.

Requirements:

Education:
High School graduate/GED.

Previous experience as a dental assistant in private practice or hospital-based practice needed

Understands fundamentals of central sterilization

Familiar with dentrix EMR

Familiar with taking dental radiographs

Bilingual candidates desired.
Excellent oral communication skills
Excellent customer service skills
Flexibility regarding assignments and ability to manage multiple reporting lines
Strong work ethic and flexibility in schedule

Strength Through Diversity

The Mount Sinai Health System believes that diversity, equity, and inclusion are key drivers for excellence. We share a common devotion to delivering exceptional patient care. When you join us, you become a part of Mount Sinai’s unrivaled record of achievement, education, and advancement as we revolutionize medicine together. We invite you to participate actively as a part of the Mount Sinai Health System team by:

• Using a lens of equity in all aspects of patient care delivery, education, and research to promote policies and practices to allow opportunities for all to thrive and reach their potential
• Serving as a role model confronting racist, sexist, or other inappropriate actions by speaking up, challenging exclusionary organizational practices, and standing side-by-side in support of colleagues who experience discrimination
• Inspiring and fostering an environment of anti-racist behaviors among and between departments and co-workers
• We work hard to acquire and retain the best people and to create an inclusive, welcoming and nurturing work environment where all feel they are valued, belong, and are able to professionally advance. We share the belief that all employees, regardless of job title or expertise, contribute to the patient experience and quality of patient care.

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Who We Are

Over 38,000 employees strong, the mission of the Mount Sinai Health System is to provide compassionate patient care with seamless coordination and to advance medicine through unrivaled education, research, and outreach in the many diverse communities we serve.

Formed in September 2013, The Mount Sinai Health System combines the excellence of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai with seven premier hospitals, including Mount Sinai Beth Israel, Mount Sinai Brooklyn, The Mount Sinai Hospital, Mount Sinai Queens, Mount Sinai West (formerly Mount Sinai Roosevelt), Mount Sinai Morningside ( Formerly St Luke’s), and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai.

The Mount Sinai Health System is an equal opportunity employer. We comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and does not discriminate, exclude, or treat people differently on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.

EOE Minorities/Women/Disabled/Veterans

Compensation

The Mount Sinai Health System (MSHS) provides a salary range to comply with the New York City Law on Salary Transparency in Job Advertisements. The salary range for the role is $23.01 - $23.54 Hourly. Actual salaries depend on a variety of factors, including experience, education, and hospital need. The salary range or contractual rate listed does not include bonuses/incentive, differential pay or other forms of compensation or benefits.