Sr Dental Hygienist Reg
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Chandler Regional Medical Center
Phoenix, AZ, US
Summary
The Dental Hygienist provides preventive and therapeutic clinical services, including cleanings, sealants, and radiographic imaging for pediatric patients. They also coordinate patient care, maintain clinic equipment, and ensure regulatory compliance and instrument sterility.
Job Description
Where You’ll Work
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As a Dental Hygienist, You will provide preventive and therapeutic clinical services, oral health education, and referral/care coordinator services for the Dignity Health Children's Dental Clinic and Community Screening program.
Every day you will expertly perform administrative duties, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, professional advisement and support to the department, and coordinating and instructing dental hygiene students.
To be successful, you will demonstrate outstanding clinical skills, strong communication abilities, and a compassionate, detail-oriented demeanor, contributing to optimal oral health outcomes and positive patient experiences.
- Provide direct care to patients at the dental clinics as directed by Arizona Affiliated Practice Act.
- Provide dental hygiene care to pediatric dental clinic patients, which may include dental assessment, professional cleanings, radiographic imaging, sealants, interim therapeutic restorations, and fluoride application, and health education.
- Coordinate patient care planning, referral, and follow-up.
- Maintain clinic equipment and report any issues or concerns.
- Assure dental instruments are in sterile condition prior to use. If sterility in question, do not use instrument(s).
Job Requirements
Required
- Graduate of an accredited school for dental hygiene
- Five years clinical dental hygiene experience
- Bachelors Other in dental hygiene, public health, health promotion, health science or in a related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience working with underserved populations
- Dental Hygienist: AZ,
- American Heart Association
- Basic Life Support - (BLS/CPR)
For more than 50 years, Chandler Regional Medical Center has focused on quality patient care and service to the community. The longest established hospital in the southeast Valley, Chandler Regional’s humble beginnings as a community hospital, which opened with only 40 beds, 25 employees and 91 volunteers, laid the foundation for the full-service acute-care hospital it has become.
With 338 acute-care beds, more than 1,686 employees and 962 physicians representing all major specialties, Chandler Regional is a not-for-profit community hospital providing innovative and exceptional health care to East Valley residents.
The hospital recently opened a new five-story tower with 96 patient beds, expanding emergency and trauma services, the surgical unit and intensive care offerings.
Proud to be an important part of the local economy and an award-winning employer, Chandler Regional also gives back to local organizations through our Community Grants Program. Part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems with more than 40 hospitals in Arizona, California and Nevada, Chandler Regional is home to a full range of services, including heart care, emergency care, maternity service, wound healing, clinical research, and diagnostic services, among others.
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Privately Held
For more than 50 years, Chandler Regional Medical Center has focused on quality patient care and service to the community. The longest established hospital in the southeast Valley, Chandler Regional’s humble beginnings as a community hospital, which opened with only 40 beds, 25 employees and 91 volunteers, laid the foundation for the full-service acute-care hospital it has become.
With 338 acute-care beds, more than 1,686 employees and 962 physicians representing all major specialties, Chandler Regional is a not-for-profit community hospital providing innovative and exceptional health care to East Valley residents.
The hospital recently opened a new five-story tower with 96 patient beds, expanding emergency and trauma services, the surgical unit and intensive care offerings.
Proud to be an important part of the local economy and an award-winning employer, Chandler Regional also gives back to local organizations through our Community Grants Program. Part of Dignity Health, one of the nation’s largest healthcare systems with more than 40 hospitals in Arizona, California and Nevada, Chandler Regional is home to a full range of services, including heart care, emergency care, maternity service, wound healing, clinical research, and diagnostic services, among others.
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Privately Held
