Mary's Center is a federally qualified health center that served over 31,000 men, women and children in 2012. We provide comprehensive health, dental, social, and education services to underserved, underinsured, and uninsured individuals in the D.C. metropolitan region. Our mission is to build better futures through the offering of these services. We embrace culturally diverse communites and provide them with the highest quality of care, regardless of ability to pay. With 24 years of experience, Mary's Center has a pleasant working environment, great work hours and excellent benefits!

The Dental Assistant assists the dentist in many aspects of direct patient care and performs other clinical and clerical functions independently of direct supervision.  Sets up and cleans dental unit for timely turnover. The Dental Assistant will also be responsible for providing appropriate oral health information to Mary Center Staff.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Education and/or Experience – graduation from an approved dental assistant course; or graduation from high school and one year of on-the-job training as a dental assistant and current CPR (BLS) certification for this position, and required x-ray training when needed; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Ability to be clinically fluent in Spanish or other second language is preferred.Must qualify to acquire a DC Dental Assisting License within 60 days of hire.

Reasoning Ability – Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out moderately-complex, multi-step instructions and make appropriate independent decisions as necessary

Physical Demands – Regularly required sitting; frequently required to reach with hands and arms, walk, stoop, kneel, crouch, talk or hear; must be able to lift objects up to twenty-five (25) pounds.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Work Environment – Mostly in a mobile unit with moderate to loud noise level.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.