Recruitment/Posting Title Expanded Duty Dental Assistant Job Category Staff & Executive - Allied Health - Dental Assisting Department RSDM-Clinical affairs 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 an Expanded Duty Dental Assistant for the Office for Clinical Affairs within the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine (RSDM).

Under general supervision, this position will perform chairside, desk side and sterilization assistance for Rutgers University Dental Associate providers. Dental Assistant assists providers during various examinations, treatment of patients and dispenses dental materials and instruments. The position performs other clerical, sterilizing and miscellaneous tasks properly aligned with the functions of a dental assistant.

Among the key duties of this position are the following: Seats patients, adjust chairs, drapes patients with protective covers. Lays out dental instruments and supplies. Hands instruments to doctor during examinations and treatment of patients. Operates suction equipment. Mixes filling and impression materials. Maintains all dental equipment. Maintains patient records (individual, daily, monthly and yearly). Dispenses equipment and supplies to students. Charts examinations under the direction of the doctor. Serves as sterilization assistant. Restocks equipment and supplies. Maintains enough supplies on hand to efficiently run the clinic. 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 45263.40 Annual Mid Range Salary 46173.40 Annual Maximum Salary 47556.60 Standard Hours 35.00 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