Dental Assistant- Hiring Incentive Job at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minn

Hennepin Healthcare is an integrated system of care that includes HCMC, a nationally recognized Level I Adult Trauma Center and Level I Pediatric Trauma Center and acute care hospital, as well as a clinic system with primary care clinics located in Minneapolis and across Hennepin County.

Equal Employment Opportunities: We believe equity is essential for optimal health outcomes and are committed to achieve optimal health for all by actively eliminating barriers due to racism, poverty, gender identity, and other determinants of health. We are committed to equitable care and working in an environment that celebrates, promotes, and protects diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

SUMMARY:

We are currently seeking a Dental Assistant to join our organization. This position is full-time, working 80 hours per 2 week pay period. It works days Monday -Friday.

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

A $5000 hiring incentive is available for eligible external candidates.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• 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
• Administer and monitor nitrous oxide
• Re-cement intact temporary restorations and place temporary fillings
• Etch appropriate enamel surfaces, apply and adjust pit and fissure sealants
• Perform restorative procedures limited to placing, contouring, and adjusting amalgam restorations, glass ionomers, and supragingival composite restorations
• 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
• Apply topical mediations such as topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes
• 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

We offer a competitive pay rate based on your skills, licensure/certifications, education, experience related to this position, and internal equity. We provide an extensive benefits program that includes Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Short and Long-term Term Disability Insurance, Retirement Funds, Paid Time Off, Tuition reimbursement, and license and Certification reimbursement.