Dental Hygienist
About The Position
Join a mission-driven team bringing preventive dental care directly to underserved populations. As a Dental Hygienist, you’ll work beyond the traditional clinic setting, serving children, families, and older adults across schools, community programs, and long-term care facilities. This role is ideal for someone who values autonomy, community impact, and meaningful patient relationships. The Dental Hygienist provides preventative oral care under a generalized supervision. The Dental Hygienist performs all duties within the scope of practice of dental hygiene including but not limited to subgingival and supragingival scaling, root planning, coronal polishing, administering local anesthetic, exposing radiographs, placing sealants and chemotherapeutics agents, inspecting the oral cavity for abnormal tissue, taking alginate impressions, and assisting the dentist as necessary.
Requirements
- Graduate of an accredited Dental Hygiene program
- Current Nebraska Dental Hygienist license
- Local anesthetic certification
- Basic Life Support (BLS) certification
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work effectively with diverse populations
- Commitment to maintaining confidentiality
Nice To Haves
- Previous dental hygiene or community health experience
- Experience with portable dental equipment
- Bilingual skills or experience working with interpreters.
Responsibilities
- Perform oral prophylaxis and/or root planning to dentition via supra and subgingival scaling using hand and/or ultrasonic instruments, coronal polishing (as needed), and head/neck/oral cancer screenings.
- Assists in copying, filing, faxing, updating pre-authorizations and plans as well as other projects related to administrative support.
- Applies sealants, SDF, fluoride varnish, or other chemotherapeutic agents in collaboration and as prescribed by dentist.
- Expose radiographs in collaboration and as prescribed by the dentist.
- Performs periodontal assessment, caries assessment, and all required/ appropriate document charting while collaborating with the dentist.
- Monitor Nitrous Oxide.
- Assist the dentist and/or other team members when necessary or as time permits.
- Clean and stock operatory and maintain equipment as needed.
- Provide oral health (and systemic health correlation) education, explain treatment plans, and treatment options to patient.
- Reviews patient health history and takes blood pressure and pulse vitals.
- Practices universal precautions and other sterilization and infection control procedures.
- Provide information to callers regarding patient care as directed by dentist.
Benefits
- Meaningful, community-focused work
- Opportunity to serve diverse populations across the lifespan
- Collaborative public health environment
- Autonomy in a non-traditional clinical setting
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
