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Excellence, Teamwork, Leadership and Innovation. These are the values that define UConn Health, and we are looking for team members that share these same values. Our top rated organization is looking to add a Dental Auxiliary Instructor to our growing team. If you have a background in this field, as well as a passion for customer and patient experience, we want to hear from you.
COMPREHENSIVE BENEFITS OFFERED:
Industry-leading health insurance options and affordability
Generous vacation and sick-time plans
Multi-channel retirement options (pension and match options)
Tuition waiver and reimbursement for employees and qualified family members
Quick commute access from I-84, Rte 9 and surrounding areas
State of the art facility and campus environments
Progressive leadership and educational development programs available
- Coordinates patient care, including scheduling, preparing for treatment, documentation and verification of necessary information
- Performs clinical duties
- Instructs and guides dental students in the set-up of operatories, placement of patients, communication techniques, and dental business office procedures
- May teach dental students chairside techniques
- Schedules student rotations
- Audits patient records to ensure proper charges and coding by students
- Evaluates and monitors student progress
- Prepares and gives lectures to instruct/teach students as needed
- Meets and reviews progress with students; offers guidance when necessary
- Keeps records; prepares reports as requested
- Maintains supplies and equipment; prepares examination area
- Organizes pre-clinical activities
- Performs related duties as required.
- Considerable knowledge of dental assisting/dental hygiene office and chairside procedures
- Knowledge of universal precautions
- Considerable interpersonal skills, teaching ability
- Ability to communicate both orally and in writing.
- Incumbents in this class may be required to travel within the State in the course of their daily work.
- Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain the Dental Assistant Certification.
- Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work as part of a team in a fast paced environment
- Experience with medically complex patients and patients with special healthcare needs
- Experience with patient scheduling and coordination of care across dental disciplines
- Experience in high volume setting.
- Experience with MS Suite( including Excel, Teams , Outlook)
Why UConn Health
UConn Health is a vibrant, integrated academic medical center that is entering an era of unprecedented growth in all three areas of its mission: academics, research, and clinical care. A commitment to human health and well-being has been of utmost importance to UConn Health since the founding of the University of Connecticut schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine in 1961. Based on a strong foundation of groundbreaking research, first-rate education, and quality clinical care, we have expanded our medical missions over the decades. In just over 50 years, UConn Health has evolved to encompass more research endeavors, to provide more ways to access our superior care, and to innovate both practical medicine and our methods of educating the practitioners of tomorrow.
