Dental Assistant - Sign on bonus

Hennepin Healthcare; Minneapolis (MN); On-site; USD 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Sign-On Bonus of $2,500

Job summary

Hennepin Healthcare in Minneapolis is seeking a dedicated Dental Assistant to perform routine dental procedures under supervision. Responsibilities include preparing instruments, assisting in surgeries, scheduling appointments, and maintaining records.

Ideal candidates will have completed an accredited dental assisting program and hold a valid Dental Assistant license from the State of Minnesota. A strong commitment to patient care and teamwork is essential for this role. A sign-on bonus of $2,500 is available for eligible external candidates.

Qualifications

• Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 90 days.
• Must have completed a course on nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia.

Responsibilities

• Perform routine dental procedures under supervision.
• Review patient charts and prepare instruments.
• Monitor nitrous oxide administration.

Skills

Dental procedures

Patient interaction

X-ray procedures

Sterilization techniques

Education

Completion of an accredited dental assisting program

Basic Life Support certification

Job description

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