Dental Assistant - Sign on bonus

JOB DETAILS: Department: Dental Clinic; FTE: 1.0 (80 hours per pay period); Workdays: Monday - Friday; Shift Length: 8 hours. Sign‑On Bonus: $2,500* (Sign on bonus is available for eligible external candidates; current employees, contract/temporary workers, and former employees returning to HHS within one year are ineligible). Purpose of this Position Under immediate supervision, performs work involving routine dental procedures. Responsibilities Review patient chart and prepare instruments and equipment Perform procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching trays Perform mechanical polishings Perform fluoride treatments Place rubber dam Remove sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridges Chart patient treatment received Provide dental hygiene instruction Perform x‑ray procedures and develop film Provide dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materials Schedule patient appointments Cleans and maintain equipment and work area Sterilizes and wraps instruments Orders supplies Prepare and maintain records Administer and monitor nitrous oxide. To administer, dental assistant must have completed a course on Nitrous Oxide administration Re‑cement 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. Dental Assistant must have completed 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 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 Perform 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 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 Must have completed a course on nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia #J-18808-Ljbffr Hennepin Healthcare