Dental Hygienist
About The Position
North Shore Community Health (NSCH) is seeking a full-time Dental Hygienist to join their team. This role involves promoting optimal dental health by performing dental prophylaxis, oral cancer screenings, charting dental conditions, and educating patients. The position requires cultural competence due to the diverse patient and staff population and a sense of humor is also valued. NSCH is a community health organization providing comprehensive care including primary care, dental services, behavioral health, and more, with multiple service sites and school-based health centers.
Requirements
- Two years of experience
- Graduate of an accredited School of Dental Hygiene
- Licensed in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a Registered Dental Hygienist
- Good working knowledge of dental equipment and terminology, OSHA, and safety compliance
- Ability to work well under pressure in a fast-paced dental environment
- Superior customer service skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
- Detail-oriented, organized, professional, and able to multitask.
- Good working knowledge of Dentrix.
- All employees must be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employment unless they have been granted a religious or medical exception.
Nice To Haves
- Local anesthesia certification preferred
- Bilingual/bicultural individuals who can speak Spanish and/or Portuguese
Responsibilities
- Provide direct care to patients.
- Reviews and updates medical history at each visit.
- Maintains instrumentation for dental hygiene treatment by sharpening, sterilizing, and selecting instruments.
- Performs all necessary oral prophylactic services by cleaning deposits and stains from teeth by scaling, polishing, or subgingival root planning and curettage; applying fluoride treatments and placing pit and fissure sealants.
- Detects disease by performing oral cancer screening; feeling and visually examining gingival tissues; using a probe to detect areas of periodontal pocketing and disease, and assessing levels of recession.
- Document all hygiene services and chart clinical findings in Dentrix.
- Educate patients by giving oral hygiene and plaque control instructions
Benefits
- health and wellness benefits
- tuition reimbursement
- loan forgiveness opportunities
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
