Dental Assistant

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All applications will be accepted from 3/30/2026 to 4/12/2026.

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General Job Description : This is dental assistant work performing facilitating tasks for higher level dental auxiliary personnel and dentists such as caring for, maintaining, and preparing dental materials and instruments. Employees in this class maintain records of dental treatment, set up dental appointments and assist dental auxiliary personnel and dentists who give dental treatments in a district health center or satellite facility. Work is performed under the close supervision of a higher level dental auxiliary or a professional dentist. Some physical effort is involved in the performance of duties.

The Requirements are as follows:

EDUCATION:

Education equivalent to the completion of the twelfth school grade.

AND

CERTIFICATION:

Possession of certification by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's State Board of Dentistry to perform dental radiologic procedures.

AND

EXPERIENCE:

Six months of experience preparing dental materials and instruments for dental treatment, which has included on-the-job training in assisting with dental tasks.

NOTE : Successful completion of a post high school training program in dental assistant procedures and techniques may be substituted for required experience on a month for month basis. Completion of 300 hours of chair-side experience as part of a training program may be substituted for the full experience requirement.

The analyst responsible for reviewing applications and additional documentation for this job opportunity is Nashe . You can contact Nashe at [email protected] .

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