Dental Assistant
Immediate Position Available
We are looking for an experienced and dedicated Dental
Assistant to join our growing high end practice.
Qualifications:
• Candidate must have at least 2 years chairside dental
assisting experience
• Knowledge of Dentrix
• Must be proficient in taking x-rays
• Will be responsible for sterilization and inventory control
of dental instruments
• Will be responsible for excellent customer service skills for
greeting patients
• Will be responsible for patient education on good oral
hygiene habits
• Prepare exam rooms and assist the dentist during patient
examinations and other dental procedures
Applicants must be prepared for a full time position.
Dental Receptionist
We are looking for an experienced, dedicated, and friendly
Dental Receptionist to join our growing high end practice to
ensure proper patient management and record keeping.
Qualifications:
• Candidates must have at least 2 years’ experience with
Dentrix
• Excellent customer service skills for greeting and
welcoming patients to the practice
• Ensuring all paperwork is filled out and completed properly
• Verifying method of payment insurance information and
collecting appropriate payments
• Will be responsible to answer calls, schedule
appointments, check in and/or out patients
• Will arrange referrals to other providers or specialists
when necessary
• Knowledge of dental terminology is needed
• Knowledge of insurance is preferred
Dental Hygienist
We are looking for an experienced and dedicated Dental
Hygienist to join our growing high end practice.
Qualifications:
• Dental hygienist training or education
• Current license in New York
• Providing patient education regarding good oral hygiene
skills
• Looking for indications of oral cancer by feeling lymph
nodes under patient chins for signs of tenderness or
swelling
• Noting and reviewing patient medical history
• Recording dental decay and disease for diagnosis and
treatment by dentists
• Performing x-rays as necessary
• Promoting preventative dental care to improve patient oral
health care
• Applying fluoride treatments, sealants, and other dental
decay preventing agents
• Working with dentists and dental assistant
Ability to administer local anesthetic agents
Caribbean L 14 ife, October 23-29, 2020
Jamaican delegate chosen
for 2020 YOUNGA UN Forum
By Tangerine Clarke
Jenine Shepherd, Jamaican Prime
Minister’s Youth Award for Excellence
in Nation Building recipient, will on
Oct. 24, represent Youths For Excellence
Limited at the inaugural YOUNGA
forum, organized by BridgingTheGap
Ventures, a first-of-a-kind virtual global
youth takeover of the United Nations,
themed “2020—the future youth want,
the action we need.”
Using VR and XR technologies, YOUNGA
will connect 1,500 youth delegates
with top-level decision-makers and influencers
to co-create solutions to global
challenges like the UN Sustainable
Development Goals (SDGs).
The hopes, concerns and ideas of
young people for the future identified
by youth delegates will be presented to
world leaders through the 2020 YOUNGA
online broadcast and a world-first virtual
reality event, alongside the commemoration
of the 75th anniversary of the United
Nations.
The brilliant 22-year-old, executive
director of Youths For Excellence Limited,
a non-profit she founded at 17, and
provides food, school supplies, tutoring
and healthcare via the aid of 24 corporate
and government sponsors, JUTC, KFC,
Grace Kennedy Limited and Digicel, will
share her insights for the future.
Speakers will include senior leaders
from the World Health Organization, UN
Foundation, UNAIDS, The World Bank
Group, Nobel Peace Prize Laureates and
a variety of celebrity mentors.
“Jamaica does not exist in a vacuum.
Discussions by youth across the globe
with key decision makers are crucial for
us to accomplish Vision 2030 for our
island. This is what YOUNGA provides,”
states Shepherd.
“For the past five years I have been
working tirelessly to eradicate education
inequality across the Caribbean region.
It pains my heart to see the inequity that
exists. The time for discussion and action
is now,” she said.
YOUNGA, which also provides families
of the children with opportunities for
JÐnine Shepherd, addressing youths
at a 2019 diaspora conference in Jamaica.
Photo by Tangerine Clarke
career and personal development, has to
date, provided close to 800 children with
holistic education support.
Jénine has been brought in by CARICOM,
the Institute of Caribbean Studies
and the Caribbean Development Foresight
Institute to host and organize discussions
with the United Nations Development
Program, UNESCO, the Caribbean
Development Bank, the Organization
of American States around policies
in education, healthcare and economic
development post COVID-19 for the Caribbean
region.
Shepherd who was recently appointed
president of the Jamaica Youth Alliance,
(JAYA), a New York based 501(c) (3) that
supports Jamaicans in the USA with the
endorsements of the US and Jamaican
governments to provide networking and
mentorship opportunities and a platform
for advocacy on issues affecting diaspora
members, said the organization has
partnered with American friends to host
a virtual benefit concert in Europe.
The concert will be co-hosted by DJ
Khaled and Busta Rhymes, in aid of
the COVID-19 relief in Jamaica. The
Embassy of Jamaica in Brussels and
European diaspora groups will join to
raise funds and organize repatriation
flights in aid of Jamaicans stranded in
France due to COVID-19.
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Office Location- South Brooklyn
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