Job Description
Powers Dental Group has an opening for a Dental Assistant/Front Office Floater in Colorado Springs, CO. We are a large, well-respected, private practice looking for someone with front AND back office experience. The ideal candidate will be able to provide excellent, 5-star customer service, and multi-task with a smile. In return, you will work for dentists and a practice manager who have a high level of integrity and professionalism, mixed with a healthy dose of good humor. All of our staff members are provided training to make the transition to your new professional home. We offer all this and a compensation package that includes medical and dental insurance plans, PTO, 401k and a unique schedule that just might be exactly what you've been looking for!
Responsibilities
- Provide outstanding customer service for the patient; excellent chair side manner
- Assist the doctor with all dental procedures
- Performing patient oral evaluations
- Take, develop and mount accurate and high quality radiographs
- Perform efficient and accurate procedures to help maintain doctors’ schedule and patient flow; create no patient wait time; maintain time flexibility for patient; be present, engaged, ready to work at all assigned shift times.
- Help clean the office and treatment rooms
- Review patient chart prior to doctor arrival and log appropriate patient data during exam and treatment as well as transcribe doctor notes in patient chart
- Maintain patient confidentiality through HIPAA compliance
- Follow organizations safety policies and procedures
- Have knowledge and understanding of dental terminology sufficient to perform job successfully
- Verify patient health history (basic health review, medications, understanding impact with dentistry) and document appropriately in patients chart
- Greet and check in patients in a friendly manner
- Maintain a full schedule of patients daily
- Assist patients with understanding and accepting their clinical diagnosis
- Calculate fees for dental treatment
- Coordinate financial agreements for the patient's financial responsibility of dental treatment
- Responding to patient billing or financial inquiries, directing to appropriate departments, as necessary.
- Support the front desk staff members by fulfilling patient care responsibilities
- Check and respond to voicemails and emails left for the office
- Assist with other office duties as requested or needed
Qualifications
- 2+ years dental assisting experience required
- Prior dental front office experience required
- Versed in Dentrix is a major plus
- Highly effective verbal and communication skills
- Excellent customer service skills
- Outstanding positive attitude and demeanor
- Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills
- Ability to multi-task and work in a fast-paced environment
Salary: $25 per hour