Lead Dental Asst / Clinical Team Leader, Kool Smiles - New Haven, CT
Kool Smiles is a general dentistry group that is providing kids and their parents in underserved communities with the dental care they desperately need. Our offices are brand new and equipped with modern technology such as digital x-rays and electronic dental records. Despite the United States' status as the wealthiest country in the world, only 1 in 5 children in low-income families receives dental care, primarily due to a lack of participating providers in the Medicaid system. As a result, the Surgeon General has concluded that oral care is the #1 unmet healthcare need for children in this country. The alarming state of oral health in low-income children today is the foundation on which we have built our mission, purpose and vision.
Kool Smiles is a general dentistry group that is providing kids and their parents in underserved communities with the dental care they desperately need. Our offices are brand new and equipped with modern technology such as digital x-rays and electronic dental records. Despite the United States' status as the wealthiest country in the world, only 1 in 5 children in low-income families receives dental care, primarily due to a lack of participating providers in the Medicaid system. As a result, the Surgeon General has concluded that oral care is the #1 unmet healthcare need for children in this country. The alarming state of oral health in low-income children today is the foundation on which we have built our mission, purpose and vision.
Essential Job Functions
- Ensure the office delivers quality and compassionate care to every patient.
- Assist the office amanage in optimizing the efficiently of the office to better serve our patients through building teamwork and scheduling patient and staffing dental assistants effectively.
- Provide excellent customer service by ensuring patient flow is runnin efficiently and ensure the office is making space to offer SDC.
- Responisble fof upholding the office to the highest intergrity by adhering to all government regulations and company standards.
- Ensure all parents are guided through Kool Smiles process before treatment and are educated in oral hygiene instruction, and are provided postoperative insrtuctions.
- Responsibel for ordering dental supplies and manageing inventory, responsible for training and developing dental assistants,
- Assist professional denta staff with treatment regularly.
- Responisble for pricideing clinical training support to offices within the stat and /or district, to include but not limited to the faciliation of CTL training and DA training.
- Responsible for DeNovo training with the state and/or district.
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and person Characteristics
- High focus on customer service and satisfaction,
- Must love working with children, compassion and high level of service for our patients, parents and staff,
- Intergrity, alway doing the right thing,
- Team building skills, organizational and staff development skills,
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills,
- Attention to detail ,
- Able to organize work, engage in a variety of tasks simultaneously and consistently meet deadlines,
- Professional manner and appearance at all times
Certifications, Licenses, Registrations
- Certifications in all available dental assistant certifications
