Position Title: Dental Assistant/Medical Records Clerk

Classification: non-exempt

Reports To:

Health & Wellness Director

Pay: $20.16-$22.58

Position Description

About Dayton Job Corps

Job Corps' national mission is to educate and train highly-motivated young people, ages 16-24, for successful careers in the nation's fastest-growing industries. Here at Dayton Job Corps Center, we support their mission by teaching eligible young people, the skills they need to become employable and independent, and place them in meaningful jobs or further education. Students here have access to room and board while they learn skills in specific training areas for up to three years. The program helps them to complete their high school education, trains them for meaningful careers, provides transitional support services, and assists them with obtaining employment. Job Corps graduates either enter the workforce or an apprenticeship, go on to higher education, or join the military.

Summary

Reports to the Health/Wellness Director. Performs specialized dental functions in the provision of dental services to students.

Essential Functions

Prepares individual student medical folders. Observes discretion in handling confidential information.

Prepares medical appointment slips for students in the Center Information System (CIS).

Maintains student records for a variety of purposes, such as status reports.

Responds to student and staff inquiries regarding medical records.

Performs other general clerical duties including, but not limited to, typing correspondence, form letters, schedules, forms, and reports.

Proofreads and copies documents, processes incoming and outgoing mail, answers telephone, receives visitors, and files documentation.

Assists with processing students' medical leaves in the CIS.

Assists with maintaining medical equipment and inventory.

Prepares all incoming medical bills for manager review prior to submission to the finance department.

Prepares a treatment room for patients by adhering to prescribed procedures and protocols.

Prepares patients for dental hygiene treatment by welcoming, soothing, seating, and draping patients.

Provides information to patients and employees by answering questions and requests.

Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting proper instruments for the procedure.

Selects materials and equipment for dental hygiene visit by evaluating patient's oral health.

Helps dentists manage dental and medical emergencies by maintaining CPR certification, emergency drugs and oxygen supply, and directory of emergency numbers.

Educates patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions and postoperative instructions and providing reminders of time of next dental hygiene visit.

Documents dental hygiene services by recording vital signs and medical and dental histories and charting in patient records.

Maintains patient confidence and protects operations by keeping information confidential in accordance with HIPAA.

Maintains a safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.