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Registered Dental Assistant
Community Action Corporation of South Texas (CACOST)Kingsville, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 2 Dec 2025
About the role
General Summary: Responsible for assisting the Dentist with direct patient care. Processes and sterilizes instruments. Ensures all patient information is kept secure and confidential. Must have excellent communication and people skills. Must work well with others and have good manual dexterity.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications: Must be a Texas Dental Board Registered Dental Assistant. Must have a current Radiology Certification. Must have computer skills and be familiar with data and word processing programs. Must have a valid driver's license and a safe driving record and be able to pass a pre-employment physical and a criminal history background check.
Working Conditions/Physical Requirements: Light to medium physical duties include standing, walking, reaching, bending, talking for up to eight (8) hours a day. Must have good vision. Must be able to lift thirty-five pounds. Lifting will be primarily confined to occasional on premises lifting of boxes of office supplies and minor office equipment. Non-physical demands include performing multiple tasks simultaneously, the ability to meet multiple deadlines, judgement decisions and working closel
Responsibilities:
- Manage maintenance of units, pump, compressor and x-ray developer.
- Set up the treatment room and seat patients.
- Assist the dentist with patient care. ��
- Process and sterilize instruments between patients.
- Take and develop x-rays, as prescribed by the dentist.
- Take impressions with model plaster, as needed.
- Clean up the treatment room and set up for next patient.
- Keep all supplies stocked.
- Clean the dental department as needed.
- Assist receptionist with recording patient failed appointments in patient charts; printing the patient schedule for the next day; pulling patient charts for the next day; filing patient charts at the end of the day; and appointment confirmation phone calls.
- Other duties as assigned by supervisor.
Qualifications: Must be a Texas Dental Board Registered Dental Assistant. Must have a current Radiology Certification. Must have computer skills and be familiar with data and word processing programs. Must have a valid driver's license and a safe driving record and be able to pass a pre-employment physical and a criminal history background check.
Working Conditions/Physical Requirements: Light to medium physical duties include standing, walking, reaching, bending, talking for up to eight (8) hours a day. Must have good vision. Must be able to lift thirty-five pounds. Lifting will be primarily confined to occasional on premises lifting of boxes of office supplies and minor office equipment. Non-physical demands include performing multiple tasks simultaneously, the ability to meet multiple deadlines, judgement decisions and working closel
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