Dental Processing Tech

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To participate in the sanitization, disinfection, and sterilization of equipment, instruments, handpieces, and supplies used by the faculty, staff, and students of the WVU School of Dentistry. Additionally, to participate in inventory maintenance and the distribution, and collection of equipment, instruments, handpieces, supplies, and dental materials.

Education, certification, and/or licensure:

1. High school graduate or GED.

The statements described here are intended to describe the general nature of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be constructed as an all-inclusive list of all responsibilities and duties. Other duties may be assigned.

• Dispense disposable items, sterile instruments, and handpieces, certain types of equipment, and dental materials for use in dental patient care to faculty, staff, and students. This duty includes assuring the correct completion, collection, and filling of requests.
• Dispense precious metals used in dental patient care to faculty, staff, and students by collecting requisitions, issuing gold, and recording all events associated with those transactions.
• Collect returned instruments, cassettes, handpieces, equipment, and various items which have been used in dental patient care by faculty, staff, and students.
• Process handpieces by manually cleaning the exterior with isopropyl alcohol, oiling, drying, packaging, labeling, and autoclaving.
• Process instruments and cassettes by loading, operating, and unloading ultrasonic cleaning devices, washer/sterilizer, and washer/decontaminating equipment.
• Clean and disinfect equipment and various items using chemical agents.
• Inspect, prepare, wrap, and label both single instruments and sets of dental instruments.
• Sterilize instruments, etc., by loading, operating, and unloading fully programmable autoclaves and rapid air flow ovens.
• Perform record‑keeping activities associated with sterilization including the tracking of all items sterilized, and all cycles run in each machine each day the units are in operation.
• Properly store sterilized dental instruments, sterilized handpieces, and disinfected materials.
• Process, incubate, and record results of biological indicators for autoclaves and ovens.
• Participate in surface disinfection activities (cleaning and disinfecting using detergents and other chemical agents) in all work areas.
• Participate in restocking activities in all work areas including the restocking of disposables, supplies, and materials dispensed to users and the restocking of cleaning and disinfecting agents, all items necessary for sterilization, and various items used internally, and simple record keeping surrounding these activities.
• Maintain the self‑serve area in student clinic by cleaning and disinfecting using chemical agents, and restocking with supplies including chemical agents provided to students for operatory cleaning and disinfecting.
• Participate in cleaning sterilization equipment using manufacturer‑recommended cleaning agents, and in simple equipment maintenance such as inspecting and cleaning drains.
• Aid in long‑term inventory maintenance activities. For example, may be asked to help in the monthly counting of handpieces.
• Participate in training programs, including those concerning infection control, chemical hygiene and safety, equipment operation, inventory control, record‑keeping procedures, and other Central Processing functions.

• Moderate physical effort is required for this job. When working in the "Decontamination" or "Pack and Prep" areas, the physical effort required may result in perspiration.
• The staff member will be standing for long periods (perhaps the entire day), every day.
• The person will be lifting and carrying lightweight (up to 25 lbs.) objects, such as sets of dental instruments and small handpieces approximately…