Recruitment/Posting Title Expanded Duty Dental Assistant Job Category Staff & Executive - Allied Health - Dental Assisting Department RHUDA - New Brunswick Overview New Jersey’s academic health center, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences (RBHS) takes an integrated approach to educating students, providing clinical care, and conducting research, all with the goal of improving human health. Aligned with Rutgers University–New Brunswick and collaborating university wide, RBHS includes eight schools, a behavioral health network, and five centers and institutes that focus on cancer treatment and research, neuroscience, advanced biotechnology and medicine, environmental and occupational health, and health care policy and aging research.

Our faculty are teachers, clinicians, and scientists with unparalleled experience who advance medical innovation and provide patient care informed by the latest research findings. We offer an outstanding education in medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, public health, nursing, biomedical research, and the full spectrum of allied health careers.

Our clinical and academic facilities are located throughout the state—at Rutgers University–New Brunswick, including Piscataway; and at locations in Newark, Scotch Plains, Somerset, Stratford, and other locations. Clinical partners include Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, Newark’s University Hospital in Newark, and other affiliates.

Through this community of healers, scientists, and scholars, Rutgers is equipped as never before to transform lives. Posting Summary Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey is seeking a Expanded Duty Dental Assistant within the Rutgers Health University Dental Associates Department at the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM).

Under general supervision of Faculty, the Expanded Duty Dental Assistant performs chairside, desk side and sterilization assistance for Rutgers Health University Dental Associate providers. This individual assists providers during various examinations, treatment of patients and dispenses dental materials and instruments. Performs other clerical, sterilizing and miscellaneous tasks properly aligned with the functions of a Registered Dental Assistant.

Among the key duties of this position are the following:

Chairside assists providers during standard and complex procedures. Anticipates the providers needs during procedures. Hands instruments to provider during examinations and treatment of patients. Manages post-operative patient care. Monitors anesthesia patients in recovery, when necessary. Serves as sterilization assistant. Cleans and sterilizes room after each use; prepares treatment room based on scheduled procedures. Seats patients, adjust chairs, drapes patients with protective covers, communicate patient concerns with staff nurse and/or treating provider. Position Status Full Time Hours Per Week Daily Work Shift Day Work Arrangement This position requires a fully on-site work arrangement. FLSA Nonexempt Grade 182 Position Salary Annual Minimum Salary 51729.60 Annual Mid Range Salary 52769.60 Annual Maximum Salary 54350.40 Standard Hours 40.00 Union Description Teamsters 97 Payroll Designation PeopleSoft Benefits Rutgers offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees. For details, please go to http://uhr.rutgers.edu/benefits/benefits-overview.



Seniority Unit Terms of Appointment Staff - 12 month Position Pension Eligibility PERS