*_SUMMARY:_* *__* We are currently seeking a *Dental Assistant*to join our organization. This position is full-time, working 80 hours per 2 week pay period. It works days Monday -Friday. *Purpose of this position: *Under immediate supervision, perform work involving routine dental procedures. /A *$2500 hiring incentive* is available for eligible external candidates (current employees, contract/temporary workers, and former employees returning to HHS within one year are ineligible)./ *_RESPONSIBILITIES:_* * Reviews patient chart and prepares instruments and equipment * Performs procedures such as mixing impression material, taking impressions, pouring models, preparing base plates, preparing acrylic trays and bleaching trays * Performs mechanical polishings * Performs fluoride treatments * Places rubber dam * Removes sutures or excess cement from inlays, crowns and bridges * Charts patient treatment received * Provides dental hygiene instruction * Performs x-ray procedures and develops film * Provides dental chair assistance during oral surgical procedures, operating suction equipment, arranging lighting, sponging operative area and supplying instruments and materials * Schedules patient appointments * Cleans and maintains equipment and work area * Sterilizes and wraps instruments * Orders supplies * Prepares and maintains 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 * Performs related work as required, but only after appropriate training *_QUALIFICATIONS:_* /*Minimum 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 */License/Certifications:/* * Current license as a Dental Assistant through the State of Minnesota Board of Dentistry, or must pass the Minnesota Licensure Examination within 6 month of employment. * Dental Assistant must have completed a course on nitrous oxide inhalation analgesia **Title:** *Dental Assistant* **Location:** *MN-Minneapolis-Downtown Campus* **Requisition ID:** *242382*