Sterile Technician - Loving Family Dental

Join our team at Loving Family Dental - a compassionate and patient-centered dental practice in Fountain Hills, AZ! We are dedicated to maintaining the highest quality standards and delivering continued excellence in patient care. Our focus on our patients' well-being creates a warm and nurturing environment, making us a truly unique dental facility.

We are currently seeking a well-rounded Sterile Technician/Hygiene Assistant to become an essential part of our devoted team. If you want to be part of what makes us stand out, apply today!

Position Summary

The Sterile Technician/Hygiene Assistant should reflect professionalism and is a role model of quality and appearance. This person is also patient service oriented, a team player, and constantly strives to improve in all areas.

Benefits of our office

• PTO
• Paid holidays
• 401k
• Medical, vision, and dental plans

Responsibilities

• Appointments and Daily Schedule
• Keep Front Office informed of Back office appointment changes
• Actively monitor and communicate with hygienists and assistants to determine:
• If their room is ready for patients to be seated directly in treatment room upon their arrival
• For patients on the doctors schedule, check with the assistants to identify which room they want their next patient to be seated
• Administrative responsibilities
• Participate in the Morning Huddle and Team meetings
• Offer assistance to the front office during downtime
• Any other task as assigned
• Clinical responsibilities
• Comply with OSHA and use universal precautions at all times. Shares in the implementation of all safety, sterilization and infection control requirements
• Monitors Central sterilization and sterilizes all dental equipment and instruments in a timely fashion
• Help maintain dental equipment per manufacturers recommendations
• Properly dispose of all biohazardous material
• Help as needed to properly clean treatment rooms as needed, transporting dirty instruments to the sterilization area for processing
• Provide customer service support to patients by escorting them to and from the treatment room as needed
• Prepare hygiene rooms including, but not limited to, set-up, decontamination, sterilization of all instruments, cleaning handpieces, and restocking supplies
• Assist the hygienist with new patient charting and routine periodontal charting
• Help dental assistants, doctors, and front desk staff, when necessary
• Restock treatment rooms as needed
• Learning responsibilities
• Education courses on infection control
• Start learning dental terminology and instruments
• Patient/customer communication protocol
• Central sterilization and treatment room sanitation protocol

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