Dental Hygienist

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Lead Dental Hygienist

Help Build a Hygiene Department from the Ground Up

Metro Dentalcare – Shakopee | Shakopee, MN
Full-Time | Lead Dental Hygienist

Are you an experienced Dental Hygienist who is ready to take the next step in your career?

Metro Dentalcare – Shakopee is looking for a Lead Dental Hygienist who wants more than a full schedule and a routine day. We’re looking for someone who is excited by the opportunity to help build, shape, and lead a growing hygiene department from the ground up.

This is an opportunity to bring your experience, ideas, and leadership skills to a developing practice while continuing to provide the exceptional patient care you’re passionate about.

Why This Opportunity Is Different

You won’t simply be stepping into an established system. You’ll have a voice in building it.

As our Lead Dental Hygienist, you’ll work closely with practice leadership to establish strong clinical standards, create efficient workflows, support future team members, and help develop a hygiene department that both patients and team members are proud to be part of.

What You’ll Do

• Help develop efficient hygiene workflows, protocols, and scheduling standards
• Establish consistent clinical and periodontal care expectations
• Support the onboarding, training, and development of future hygiene team members in partnership with Regional and Sub-Regional Mentors
• Foster strong communication and collaboration between hygiene, doctors, and the business team
• Help strengthen patient retention, reappointment, treatment acceptance, and overall hygiene performance
• Identify opportunities to improve the patient experience and make day-to-day operations more effective
• Serve as a clinical leader, resource, and positive role model for the hygiene team
• Help create a culture built around Family, Quality, Integrity, Compassion, Teamwork, and Fun

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced hygienist who:

• Takes ownership and enjoys being a leader
• Is confident bringing new ideas and solutions to the table
• Enjoys mentoring and supporting fellow team members
• Values clinical excellence and patient-centered care
• Communicates well and works collaboratively with doctors and the entire practice team
• Is comfortable in a growing environment where things are being built and improved
• Enjoys problem-solving and finding better ways to work
• Wants the opportunity to make a meaningful impact beyond their own patient schedule

What You’ll Gain  

• Competitive benefits including health insurance and retirement savings plans, six paid holidays and PTO (paid time off)
• Continuing education to provide you opportunity to develop your full potential and enhance your clinical skills to provide education and care to your patients.
• Access to an expansive network of mentors with 1:1 hygiene mentorship support and networking opportunities available at your fingertips .
• Unparalleled business support and the highest quality supplies and labs to deliver exceptional patient care .
• Opportunity to be a part of a secure company with 20+ years of industry leading experience that provides a stable career with unlimited growth potential

Metro Dentalcare Shakopee , like each Heartland Dental supported office, is unique to the community and the patients they serve. With the support of a practice manager, a highly trained team on site, coupled with a vast network of experts across the nation, you’ll be completely connected to all the resources and support of Heartland Dental.

• Join a 7 person team that thrives on collaboration, communication and community
• We’re located on 17th Ave E in Shakopee, MN
• We are excited to welcome another Dental Hygienist provider to our Dental family!

Minimum Qualifications  

• Current dental hygienist license in MN and an Associate’s or Bachelor’s degree in dental hygiene (where required)
• Excellent working knowledge of dentistry, dental hygiene procedures, dental patient screening and medical history documentation
• CPR Certification

Preferred Experience

• Minimum of 3 years of experience
• Experience using Velscope, Diagnodent, digital scanner, digital x-rays and electronic medical record systems
• Desire to continue learning and grow clinical skills to meet needs of patients and provide preventative care and overall maintenance of patients’ dental health
• Clinical needs as required by office

Physical Requirements

• Ability to perform essential duties as deemed necessary by the Office/ Doctor/ Heartland Dental with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties of the position
• Prolonged periods sitting and standing
• Must be able to lift and carry up to 45 pounds at times
• Availability to attend virtual training sessions (or in-person) periodically throughout the year
• As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and healthy environment for both team members and patients, a tuberculosis (TB) test is required for all new hires in dental office positions. This is a standard requirement for dental office roles and must be completed prior to starting employment. The test will be arranged during the pre-employment process, and any necessary guidance or paperwork will be provided. Not applicable in the state of FL & TN. 
  

Who is Heartland Dental?

Heartland Dental is the nation's largest dental support organization, providing non-clinical administrative support services to more than 3,000 supported doctors across 39 states and the District of Columbia in over 1,800 dental offices. Each Heartland Dental supported office is unique to the community and the patients they serve. Supported doctors are the leaders of their practice and retain clinical autonomy. All Heartland Dental supported doctors are united by a common goal: delivering the highest quality dental care and experiences to the communities they serve.

At Heartland Dental, we’re committed to living our core values which promote diversity and inclusion. We provide all employees and applicants for employment the protections of federal, state, and local laws affording equal opportunity in employment.