Dental Hygienist
Job Number: CFHC-200-210-001
Number of Hours: 1.0 Full-time
Location: Calumet, MI
Description: Provides and promotes dental health support services under supervision. Providing dental prophylaxis; oral cancer screening and radiographic studies; charting conditions of decay and disease; performing procedures in compliance with the dental practice act.
Required Education, Training, Certification/Licensure and Experience:
- Post high school vocational/specialized training
- Certification from a recognized Dental Hygienist program
- Current or temporary Michigan RDH License
- Basic Life Support (BLS certification
- Registered Dental Hygienist, preferred
Physical Demands, Working Conditions
- Heavy physical effort (lift/carry up to 50 pounds)
- Lifts, positions, pushes and/or transfers patients/equipment
- Considerable reaching, stooping, bending, kneeling and crouching
- Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases
- May be exposed to infections and contagious diseases
- Exposed to housekeeping/cleaning agents/chemicals
- Exposed to hazards from electrical/mechanical/power equipment
- May be exposed to biohazardous, radioactive substances
- Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
- Subject to varying and unpredictable situations
- Handles emergency or crisis situations
- May perform emergency care
- Requires judgment/action which could result in death of patient