Experienced Dental Assistant — 3 days/week at Private Office in Lafayette,

Job description:

Our office is looking for an experienced Dental Assistant who loves dentistry, people, and life!

We’re hopeful to find someone with at least 1 year of dental assisting experience who is confident, capable, and—most importantly—a genuinely fun person to work with.

We’re looking for a very specific kind of person.

You’re the type of person who sees the bright side of life. You bring good energy into a room, look for ways to make things better, and genuinely enjoy helping the people around you.

When you see a problem, you don’t just point it out—you’re already thinking about a solution.

You don’t get bored—you get creative. If there’s downtime, you don’t sit around waiting for someone to give you something to do. You find a project, improve a system, organize something, help a teammate, or come up with a better way to do something.

You’re a giver. You notice what needs to be done and jump in without waiting to be asked. You take ownership, anticipate what your teammates need, and want the whole office—not just your own little corner of it—to have a great day.

Basically, we’re looking for someone so valuable that six months from now we’ll wonder how we ever survived without you.

About the position:

This is a little different from a traditional dental assisting position. Your primary role will be keeping our clinical side running smoothly: sterilization, turning over and setting up rooms, keeping us organized and ahead of schedule, and helping make sure our patients have an exceptional experience.

But we also want someone who knows dentistry and can jump in when we need them. You’ll occasionally assist chairside and help with things like whitening trays, retainers, in-office whitening, impressions/scanning, and other clinical tasks.

We do not use EDDAs. Our dentist does the dentistry. We're looking for an assistant who takes pride in being an incredible support person, anticipates what the team needs, and understands how important their role is to a great day.

Our ideal person:

Has 1+ year of dental assisting experience
Is comfortable jumping in chairside when needed
Is organized, efficient, and takes initiative
Naturally notices what needs to be done—and does it
Brings solutions, not just problems
Doesn’t get bored—gets creative
Has a positive outlook and brings good energy to work
Loves interacting with patients
Is dependable and takes ownership of their role
Is a giver and genuinely enjoys helping their teammates
Doesn’t need to be micromanaged
Has a great sense of humor and is FUN to work with
And someone who loves the SH*T out of dentistry! ;)
We have an outstanding, long-term team and provide high-quality dentistry to our community in downtown Lafayette. We work hard, take great care of our patients, and genuinely like spending our days together.

Schedule: 3 days/week, 7:30-5

Our schedule varies—we work Monday–Wednesday some weeks and Tuesday–Thursday others. The good news? You’ll know the schedule a full year in advance, making it easy to plan appointments, trips, and life outside of work.

No Fridays and no weekends!

Pay: $23–$25/hour, depending on experience.

If you're an experienced assistant who loves dentistry but might be ready for a role that's a little less chairside, a little more variety, and part of a really great team, we'd love to meet you.

Please send us your resume and a short note telling us why you think you’re the kind of person we’ll wonder how we ever survived without.

Check us out at DentistLafayette.com.