Job Description
Adecco Healthcare & Life Sciences is assisting a local client with their search to fill a Dental Hygienist position in Indianapolis!
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Duration: Temp-to-hire
Pay rate: $42-$45/hour
Responsibilities for the Dental Hygienist include:
- Exemplify the RHC mission through a personal example of excellent service to patients, visitors and coworkers
- Treat patients, visitors and coworkers with respect and dignity
- Maintain confidential information
- Attend regularly scheduled staff meetings
- Participate in appropriate health promotion activities as required
- Assist in the oral health management of all dental patients
- Obtain baseline oral hygiene assessment date based on accepted principles of oral hygiene and periodontal care
- Provide oral health education and appropriate individual counseling for all dental patients
- Provide clinical oral hygiene services including dental prophylaxis, scaling and root planning, sealant application and fluoride application consistent with accepted standards of practice and in compliance with applicable state laws and RHC clinical protocols
- Take and develop x-rays as prescribed by the Dentist
- Accurately and completely record every patient-hygienist interaction in the patient dental record to reflect the nature of the contact, the condition of the patient and the care or treatment provided
- Assist in the provision of oral health education in the community as requested
Qualifications for the Dental Hygienist include:
- Graduation from an accredited dental hygiene program
- Unrestricted license to practice Dental Hygiene in the State of Indiana
- Current CPR/BLS certification required
- Working knowledge of all aspects of the field of Dental Hygiene
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with patients, visitors and coworkers
- Ability to manage and complete tasks with consistent detail-oriented accuracy
- Basic knowledge of office equipment: computer, single-line phone, copier, and fax; Basic knowledge of computer applications: Word
- Bilingual in Spanish a plus
- Experience with Dentrix Enterprises a plus
Job Tags
Temporary work, Local area,