Starting Salary - New employees will be appointed at the first step in the pay range for this class.
Required Education:
High School
Internal Number: 4E02-20240902-OC-00
The Department of Health is hiring Dental Assistants with certification by PAState Board of Dentistry to perform dental radiologic procedures. Some experience or post-high school training are required.
This is dental assistant work performing facilitating tasks for higher level dental auxiliary personnel and dentists such as caring for, maintaining, and preparing dental materials and instruments. Employees in this class maintain records of dental treatment, set up dental appointments and assist dental auxiliary personnel and dentists who give dental treatments in a district health center or satellite facility.
Work is performed under the close supervision of a higher-level dental auxiliary or a professional dentist. Some physical effort is involved in the performance of duties.
Announcement Date
09/02/2024
Close Date
09/15/2024
Six months of experience preparing dental materials and instruments for dental treatment, which has included on-the-job training in assisting with dental tasks.
NOTE: Successful completion of a post high school training program in dental assistant procedures and techniques may be substituted for required experience on a month for month basis.
Completion of 300 hours of chair-side experience as part of a training program may be substituted for the full experience requirement.
The mission of the Department of Public Health is to protect and promote the health of all Philadelphians and to provide a safety net for the most vulnerable.The history of public health in Philadelphia reaches back to the city’s beginnings. William Penn’s “greene countrie towne” was the first American city to provide free hospital care for its poorest residents at the Philadelphia Almshouse, built in 1732. Our city is home to the nation’s first medical school, children’s hospital, and eye hospital.The present Department of Public Health was created by an Ordinance of December 31, 1919 to succeed the Department of Health Charities.The history of public health in Philadelphia reaches back to the city’s beginnings. William Penn’s “greene countrie towne” was the first American city to provide free hospital care for its poorest residents at the Philadelphia Almshouse, built in 1732. Our city is home to the nation’s first medical school, children’s hospital, and eye hospital.The present Department of Public Health was created by an Ordinance of December 31, 1919 to succeed the Department of Health Charities.Learn more about the history of public health in Philadelphia.