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Dental Assistant
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 3 days ago
About the Role
The Eastern Oklahoma VA Health Care System is recruiting for one intermittent Dental Assistant to help care for our Veterans in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on a one year appointment. This is an open continuous announcement until September 25, 2026. Qualified applicants will be considered and referred as vacancies become available.
What You'll Do
- →Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional Duties provided below are for the full performance level.
- →Employees at the full performance level serve with the ability to perform the full range of duties with some independence in assigned specialties, with indirect supervision from the lead dental assistant, dental assistant supervisor or treating dentist.
- →The level of supervision and independence in performing required duties will be dependent on the grade level selected and found qualified for.
- →Identify normal oral anatomy.
- →Recognize instruments, materials, and standardized dental procedures used in all phases of restorative, surgical, endodontic and periodontal care and procedures.
- →Monitor and perform basic interpretation of vital signs.
- →Independently provide procedure-specific patient education and appropriate referral of patient concerns to treating dentist.
- →Capture standard and special dental images of good diagnostic quality in traditional or digital formats.
- →Perform maintenance on dental equipment used for routine and specialty dentistry.
- →Enter and retrieve data utilizing electronic dental records.
- →Perform dental assistant-appropriate laboratory procedures.
- →Assignments at the full performance level include, but are not limited to: Using the concepts of four-handed dentistry; assists with specialty procedures including oral surgery, periodontal therapy, endodontic, prosthodontic and implant placement and restoration.
- →Anticipates dentists/surgeons/specialists' needs at each stage of treatment; takes preliminary impressions; selects and manipulates a variety of gypsums and waxes; pours, trims and evaluates the quality of diagnostic casts; fabricates custom trays.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
Personality Fit
Job ID: b781d42e-f710-462b-b2fc-bac17d9feb41
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