Adjunct Dental Assisting Instructor

Job Description

Job Description

Dental Assisting Instructor – Put Your Clinical Experience to Work

(No Teaching Experience Needed)

Are you an experienced Dental Assistant who’s ready for a change in the field where you can share your knowledge in the field?

This is your opportunity to inspire the next generation of Dental Assistants. We’re looking for skilled dental professionals — not career educators. If you know dental assisting, we’ll teach you how to teach.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Dental Assisting Instructor, you’ll bring real-world chairside experience into the classroom and lab, helping students connect textbook concepts to what actually happens in today’s dental practices.

You will:

• Teach dental assisting concepts through classroom instruction, skills lab demonstrations, and hands-on training
• Demonstrate clinical procedures including chairside assisting, infection control, radiography, instrument processing, impressions, and patient care techniques
• Share real-world experiences, industry standards, and best practices from modern dental settings
• Mentor students as they build technical skills, professionalism, and confidence in patient interaction
• Prepare students for certification and entry-level Dental Assisting roles
• Evaluate student performance and provide constructive, supportive feedback
• Participate in paid instructor training and ongoing professional development
• Work independently while supported by a collaborative academic and administrative team

No lesson plans from scratch. We provide curriculum, training, and instructional support.

Minimum Requirements

• Minimum 3 years’ experience as a Dental Assistant or EFDA required
• Minimum of a Diploma from a Dental Assisting or Dental Hygiene program 
• Certified Dental Assistant through DANB or willing to obtain at time of hire
• CPR / BLS, RHS certifications required
• Ability to use common software programs (MS Word/Excel/Outlook etc.)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Great interpersonal skills

Why This Role?

• Formal and on-the-job training to transition into teaching
• Opportunity to shape future dental professionals
• Continue your career in dentistry and help prepare the next generation of Dental Assistants! 

About our company:

YTI Career Institute, a subsidiary of Porter and Chester Institute, is a leading trade school for over 75 years and adheres to one basic vision: to educate and train our students to the level that will make them competent employees. With campus locations throughout Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts, we offer training in such trades as Automotive Technology, HVAC-R, CAD, Electrician, Plumbing, as well as Medical Assisting, Dental Assisting, Practical Nursing and Computer & Technology.

Our support staff, including Admissions, Financial Aid and other administrative professionals, to our highly qualified Instructors are focused on making the students' experience a fulfilling and enriching one, both professionally and personally.

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We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.