Dental Assistant

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

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 .

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

up a virtual interview.