Dental Assistant- Hiring Incentive Job at Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis

Overview

Dental Assistant position. This is a full-time role, working 80 hours per 2 week pay period and typically days, Monday – Friday.

Purpose of this position: Under immediate supervision, perform work involving routine dental procedures.

Hiring incentive: $4000 hiring incentive is available for eligible external candidates (current employees, contract/temporary workers, and former employees returning to HHS within one year are ineligible).

Responsibilities

• Reviews patient chart and prepares instruments and equipment
• Performs procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching trays
• Performs mechanical polishings
• Performs fluoride treatments
• Places rubber dam
• Removes sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridges
• Charts patient treatment received
• Provides dental hygiene instruction
• Performs x-ray procedures and develops film
• Provides dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materials
• Schedules patient appointments
• Cleans and maintains equipment and work area
• Sterilizes and wraps instruments
• Orders supplies
• Prepares and maintains records
• Administers and monitors nitrous oxide. To administer, the dental assistant must have completed a course on Nitrous Oxide administration
• Re-cements intact temporary restorations and place temporary fillings (not including temporization of inlays, onlays, crowns, and bridges) to promote palliative treatment
• Etch appropriate enamel surfaces, apply and adjust pit and fissure sealants. The Dental Assistant must have completed a course on Sealant placement
• Perform restorative procedures limited to placing, contouring, and adjusting amalgam restorations, glass ionomers, and supragingival composite restorations (class I & V) and adapting and cementing stainless steel crowns. To perform, the Dental Assistant must have completed Restorative Expanded Functions training
• Place and remove matrix bands
• Fabricate, cement, and adjust temporary restorations extraorally or intraorally
• Remove temporary restorations with hand instruments only
• Perform mechanical polishing to clinical crowns not including instrumental
• Apply topical mediations such as, but not limited to, topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes in appropriate dosages or quantities as prescribed by a dentist
• Take impressions for cast and appropriate bite
• Dry root canals with paper points
• Place cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openings
• Performs related work as required, but only after appropriate training

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Completion of an accredited dental assisting program
• Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 90 days of employment
• Basic Life Support

License/Certifications:

• Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 6 months of employment
• Dental Assistant must have completed a course on nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia