School-Based Dental Program Assistant

About the Position: The School-Based Dental Program Assistant will contribute to promoting oral health wellness for children throughout San Francisco by conducting  oral health interventions and recording data for the citywide oral health surveillance of primarily preschool, elementary school, and some middle school students. This data will help identify demographic/cultural/geographic groups that are underrepresented as participants.

The member will revise program materials to decrease barriers to participation. The member will also conduct formal in-class education sessions for students on nutrition, food choices/healthy eating for overall health, and dental disease prevention.

About the Organization: The San Francisco Department of Public of Health School Based Dental Program provides oral health services to over 8,000 children throughout the city with the fluoride varnish programs, State of California mandated kindergarten surveillance program, and sealants for 2nd and 5th graders.

• Creating or revising healthcare and wellness educational materials
• Record data and maintain database
• Facilitating and conducting healthcare and wellness trainings and classes
• Planning and preparing classes
• Providing health counseling and coaching
• Recruiting participants
• Scheduling and coordinating intervention/class logistics
• Facilitating interventions and classes about health issue prevention and management and overall wellness
• Engaging in outreach and promoting health education topics and healthcare services
• Collaborating with pre-existing patients and partner organizations

• Comfort speaking with others, individually or in groups.
• Community engagement/outreach skills.
• Flexible
• Organized
• Detail-Oriented
• Members who have the ability to work independently as well as a team, patient, good with children, comfortable in a teaching setting, quick thinker and problem solver, flexible, punctual and reliable and can multi task will be successful in this service position.

• Knowledge of AmeriCorps/Health Corps member requirements
• Skill with Microsoft Office or other software for a variety of data processing operations involving a range of problem solving, record keeping, correspondence, and service tracking options.
• Skill of using the School based data base.

•  Member uses initiative in carrying out recurring assignments following set procedures, independently
• The supervisor assigns service activities, advises on changes in procedures, and is available for assistance when required
• The supervisor assigns service activities in terms of project objectives and basic priorities and is available for consultation in resolving controversial issues.

• The service activities are reviewed for accuracy through spot checks, through complaints from customers, and through observation of the member at service.
• Completed projects are reviewed very generally to determine that objectives have been met and are in compliance with policies and regulations.

• Written and oral guides provide specific instructions for doing service
• Detailed guidelines exist, including regulations and directives, handbooks, precedents, industry standards, and files of previous projects

• Member has little or no choice about how to perform the service position
• The facts or conditions of the service position are clear cut, predictable, and apply directly to the assignment

• Personal vehicles are not required for this position. The clinics are accessible via public transportation.
• Dress Code: Jeans and sneakers may be worn provided they are clean and not torn or ripped.  While in any clinical setting, closed toed shoes must be worn.
• The member will:
  • Serve approximately 40 hours per week.
  • Serve Monday-Friday from 8:00AM - 5:00PM.

• No language other than English is required.
  • Proficiency and skill with Spanish, Cantonese, and/or Mandarin would be useful to the member to communicate with a wide range of people (administrators, teachers, parents, dentists, and children).

• No other Criminal History Check Requirements beyond NHC Standard Checks.