Hennepin Healthcare
Dental Assistant- Hiring Incentive
Hennepin Healthcare, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55400
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. The workdays are Monday through Friday.
Purpose of Position Under immediate supervision, perform work involving routine dental procedures.
Hiring Incentive A $2500 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 charts 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 dams
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. Must have completed a course on Nitrous Oxide administration.
Re‑cements intact temporary restorations and places temporary fillings (excluding temporization of inlays, onlays, crowns, and bridges) to promote palliative treatment
Etches appropriate enamel surfaces, applies and adjusts pit and fissure sealants. Must have completed course on Sealant placement.
Performs 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. Must have completed Restorative Expanded Functions training.
Places and removes matrix bands
Fabricates, cements, and adjusts temporary restorations extraorally or intraorally
Removes temporary restorations with hand instruments only
Performs mechanical polishing of clinical crowns not including instrumentation
Applies topical mediations such as topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes in appropriate dosages or quantities as prescribed by a dentist
Takes impressions for cast and appropriate bite
Dries root canals with paper points
Places cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openings
Performs related work as required, but only after appropriate training.
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 certification
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.
Employment Details
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Temporary
Job function: Health Care Provider
Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Hourly pay: $20.50 – $25.50
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Purpose of Position Under immediate supervision, perform work involving routine dental procedures.
Hiring Incentive A $2500 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 charts 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 dams
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. Must have completed a course on Nitrous Oxide administration.
Re‑cements intact temporary restorations and places temporary fillings (excluding temporization of inlays, onlays, crowns, and bridges) to promote palliative treatment
Etches appropriate enamel surfaces, applies and adjusts pit and fissure sealants. Must have completed course on Sealant placement.
Performs 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. Must have completed Restorative Expanded Functions training.
Places and removes matrix bands
Fabricates, cements, and adjusts temporary restorations extraorally or intraorally
Removes temporary restorations with hand instruments only
Performs mechanical polishing of clinical crowns not including instrumentation
Applies topical mediations such as topical fluoride, bleaching agents, and cavity varnishes in appropriate dosages or quantities as prescribed by a dentist
Takes impressions for cast and appropriate bite
Dries root canals with paper points
Places cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openings
Performs related work as required, but only after appropriate training.
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 certification
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.
Employment Details
Seniority level: Entry level
Employment type: Temporary
Job function: Health Care Provider
Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Hourly pay: $20.50 – $25.50
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