Dental Assistant Hiring Incentive

Hennepin Healthcare is an integrated system of care that includes HCMC, a nationally recognized Level I Adult and Pediatric Trauma Center and acute care hospital. The comprehensive healthcare system includes a 484 bed academic medical center, a large outpatient Clinic & Specialty Center, and a network of primary and specialty care clinics in Minneapolis and in suburban communities. Hennepin Healthcare has a large psychiatric program, home care and hospice, and operates a research institute, innovation center and philanthropic foundation.

• Performs mechanical polishings
• Etch appropriate enamel surfaces, apply and adjust pit and fissure sealants. Dental Assistant must have completed course on Sealant placement
• Charts patient treatment received
• Remove temporary restorations with hand instruments only
• Prepares and maintains records
• Place cotton pellets and temporary restorative materials into endodontic openings
• Schedules patient appointments
• Reviews patient chart and prepares instruments and equipment
• Performs fluoride treatments
• Re-cement intact temporary restorations and place temporary fillings (not including temporization of inlays, onlays, crowns, and bridges) to promote palliative treatment
• Provides dental hygiene instruction
• Administer and monitor nitrous oxide. To administer, dental assistant must have completed a course on Nitrous Oxide administration
• Fabricate, cement, and adjust temporary restorations extraorally or intraorally
• Places rubber dam
• 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
• Performs x-ray procedures and develops film
• Cleans and maintains equipment and work area
• Performs procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching trays
• Performs related work as required, but only after appropriate training
• Place and remove matrix bands
• Orders supplies
• Sterilizes and wraps instruments
• Removes sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridges
• Dry root canals with paper points
• Perform mechanical polishing to clinical crowns not including instrumental
• 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
• Provides dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materials

• Basic Life Support
• 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

You've made the right choice in considering Hennepin Healthcare for your employment. We offer a wealth of opportunities for individuals who want to make an impact in our patients' lives. We are dedicated to providing Equal Employment Opportunities to both current and prospective employees. We are driven to connect talented individuals with life-changing career opportunities, enabling you to provide exceptional care without exception. Thank you for considering Hennepin Healthcare as a future employer.

Please Note: Offers of employment from Hennepin Healthcare are conditional and contingent upon successful clearance of all background checks and pre-employment requirements.