WAHA Job Board
2025-119 Dental Assistant - Certified
Description
Title: Dental Assistant
Division: Integrated Indigenous Health and Specialized Community Services
Affiliation: Public Service Alliance of Canada
Site: Moose Factory, ON
Reports to: Regional Manager of Dental Services
Status: Permanent Full-time
The Weeneebayko Area Health Authority (WAHA) is seeking an experienced candidate to fill the key role of Dental Assistant.
Life at WAHA
A beacon of healing, wellness, and innovation, WAHA connects remote communities with the care they deserve. With spellbinding views surrounding each site, team members bask in the tranquility of the land, juxtaposed against a bustling workplace busy addressing the complex needs of the region. Here, we work with purpose, knowing each action matters. Patients are neighbours, family, and colleagues. Each day brings a challenge- the good kind that stretches you, helps you grow, and makes you feel vital. These hurdles birth opportunities to problem solve, develop new skills, and explore new roles. Here, we step into a version of ourselves once forgotten, overshadowed by the daily grind, and rediscover a deep connection with ourselves, the land, and each other. Here, we experience work with wonder. #WeAreWAHA
What We Do
There has never been a more exciting time to be at WAHA. We are an integrated health system providing the full continuum of care to the six communities of the western James Bay coast with over 500 employees, physicians, and partners in care. As a health authority, you will work in a unique setting where you have the opportunity to care for patients in all phases of their life journey, in all areas of their health experience. From Primary, Acute, and Mental Health, Dental, Specialty Clinics, Population Health and the WAHA Paramedic Service, the opportunities for growth are boundless. We provide community-based programming in all six of our communities, have six paramedic bases, three hospitals, four emergency departments, one community health centre and a total of 72 beds. Our guiding goal is to be a centre of excellence in Indigenous and remote healthcare. To make this goal a reality, we have formed partnerships with other centres of excellence to remove barriers and eliminate the inequity of health services access that have long impacted the patients that we serve.
At WAHA, we are leading the way in health transformation. Come and immerse yourself in the local Cree culture, work with dedicated and passionate colleagues, and live in beautiful northern communities with amazing community members. Our mission is to provide optimum healthcare as close to home as possible. You can be part of this rewarding experience. Come and find your adventure in the north.
Who You Are
- Reliable and responsible
- Friendly manner, to make the client feel at ease
- Organizational skills and able to prioritize daily work assignments and that duties are complete
- Maintain current knowledge of sterilization and reprocessing
- Able to travel to regional sites for dental clinics
What You’ll Do
- To assemble packs of dental instruments, supplies, trays and equipment according to the designated lists and codes, and to wrap, seal and label, sterilize for use in the dental unit(s)
- To report malfunction of equipment to the charge person of the Dental Offices and fill maintenance requisitions for repair
- To maintain the work area in a clean, orderly and filled condition
- To stock all operatory rooms in the dental department
- Sterilization of instruments
- Handing instruments to dentist and assisting with suctioning apparatus
- Preparation of filling materials
- Processing radiographs as instructed by the dentist
- Performing simple laboratory procedures as instructed by the dentist
- Administrative duties as needed
What You Bring
- Dental Assistant Certification-maintains annual registration and active license in BLS
- HARP certified (Healing Arts Radiation Protection)
- Graduate from an approved course for Dental Assistants
- Required to have the CSAO technician certification course and have passed it successfully. Recertification every five years is required, and ongoing in service is mandatory
- Previous experience as a dental assistant
- Ability to communicate in local native Cree language is an asset
Why Choose Us
- Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan
- Group health, welfare, and Employee and Family Assistance Program Benefits
- A northern living allowance, and vacation travel bonus (all pensionable earnings)
- Be part of an organization leading health transformation in the remote north
- Ability to work with a purpose, connected to an amazing community and culture, with opportunities to learn and grow
Join our Team
The successful candidate must provide a valid Criminal Record Check within a specified time frame.
Please apply in writing, providing three recent work references, quoting Competition #2025-119:
· For more information contact the Human Resources team by email: jobs@waha.ca
· Only those selected for an interview will be contacted
· This position will remain open till filled
· Please be advised that in order to be eligible for employment at Weeneebayko Area Health Authority, all new hires must have received the full series of a COVID-19 vaccine or combination of COVID-19 vaccines approved by Health Canada
Weeneebayko Area Health Authority is an inclusive employer. Accommodations are available in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights code and Accessibility of Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005.
Compensation
$37.55 - $37.55 per hour