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Dental Assistant (Expanded Function)
Indian Health Service · Posted 3 days ago
About the Role
Join the Indian Health Service dental team and make a meaningful difference in the lives of American Indian and Alaska Native patients. As an Expanded Functions Dental Assistant, you will work alongside dental providers in an environment dedicated to delivering compassionate, high-quality oral health care. We encourage applicants who value service, cultural respect, and professional excellence to apply. A REAL ID will be required beginning May 7, 2025, in accordance with 6 C.F.R. 37.5 (2021).
What You'll Do
- →Total Compensation Package - Check out IHS's outstanding total compensation package for this job: Dental Assistant Total Compensation | Pay (ihs.gov) Performs routine and complex alloy and composite restorations, including those requiring pin retention, cusp build-ups, multi-surface restorations, and incisal angle replacement.
- →Selects, adapts, seats, and cements stainless steel crowns and fabricates and places temporary crowns and bridges.
- →Places bases and liners, contours matrices, carves and polishes restorations, and finishes complex restorations independently within established guidelines.
- →Performs advanced chairside assisting while allowing the dentist to transition to the next patient.
- →Applies and removes rubber dams, removes sutures, applies periodontal dressings, and takes preliminary impressions.
- →Performs oral prophylaxis and advanced calculus removal using ultrasonic and hand instruments.
- →Conducts expanded dental laboratory functions, including mounting casts on articulators and pouring final impressions.
- →Actively participates in quality assurance/quality improvement activities, community outreach, and patient education.
- →Exercises greater judgment in selecting instruments and techniques, with work reviewed periodically rather than continuously.
Requirements
- ✓Selectee may be subject to a probationary period U.S.
- ✓Citizenship is required Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 This is a designated position covered by Public Law 101-630, requiring contact or control over Indian children.
- ✓Due to this requirement, the agency must ensure that persons hired for these positions have not been found guilty of or pleaded nolo contendere or guilty to certain crimes.
- ✓Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
- ✓To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit www.dhs.gov/E-Verify/.
- ✓You will need to set up direct deposit so we can pay you.
- ✓Background Investigation Requirement: This position requires the successful completion of a federal background investigation as a condition of employment.
- ✓A background investigation is a standard process used by the Federal Government to verify an individual's identity, employment history, education, and other relevant information to determine suitability for Federal service.
- ✓Upon receipt of instructions, applicants must complete all required background investigation forms within five (5) calendar days of issuance.
- ✓Timely completion is critical to avoid delays in processing or a determination of unsuitability.
- ✓Applicants are strongly encouraged to prioritize this requirement and to maintain regular communication with their assigned Personnel Security Specialist throughout the process.
- ✓Financial Suitability Requirement: This position requires a review of the applicant's financial history as part of the personnel security and suitability determination.
- ✓Applicants must demonstrate financial responsibility, maintain good standing with creditors, and satisfy all legal financial obligations prior to applying.
- ✓Individuals with substantial delinquent or unresolved financial obligations-including, but not limited to, delinquent federal or state tax liabilities, defaulted federal student loans, court-ordered fines or fees, or child support arrears-may be deemed unsuitable for employment with the Indian Health Service (IHS).
Personality Fit
Job ID: 84ce2292-c994-4228-80ad-efcb5b8463fd
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