Dental Hygienist in AP Float - Comprehensive Care Center

**Clinica Sierra Vista is excited to be one of the largest Federally Qualified Health Centers in the Nation!** We’re honored to serve the men and women of the fields. We also offer care and support to the inner city, the rural and isolated, those of low, moderate, and fixed incomes, and families from an array of cultural backgrounds who speak several languages. We don’t inquire about immigration status because we simply don’t need to know. If you come to us, we will treat you like any other patient. As we grow our team, we are looking for individuals who believe the patient is always #1. **Why work for us?** - Competitive pay which matches your abilities and experience - Health coverage for you and your family - Generous number of vacation days per year - A robust wellness plan and health club discounts - Continuing education assistance to grow and further your talents - 403(B) plan with company matching **Intrigued? We’d love to hear from you! Please review the job details below and then click “apply.”** We're looking for someone to join our team as a **Dental Hygienist in AP Float** who will be responsible for providing comprehensive dental hygiene services to patients across multiple dental clinics. This position requires flexibility, excellent clinical skills, and the ability to adapt to different practice environments. The Dental Hygienist in Alternative Practice, an independent practitioner under general supervision of a Supervising Dentist, is a licensed professional oral health educator and clinical operator who use scientific methods for the control and prevention of oral diseases to aid patients in attaining and maintaining optimum oral health. The Dental hygienist in Alternative Practice can see the patient without a preliminary examination by a dentist under the California Dental Practice Act. The practice of dental hygiene includes dental hygiene assessment and development planning and implementation of a dental hygiene care plan. It also includes oral health education, counseling, and health screening. The Dental Hygienist uses dental hygiene care to denote all integrated preventive services administered to the patient. An objective in planning dental hygiene care is to ensure the best possible sequence of procedures, which will contribute to restoration of the patient’s oral health in the shortest possible time and pave the way to the long-range preventive program that will continue throughout the patient’s lifetime. To achieve the goals of planned care, the Dental Hygienist must see hygiene procedures as part of the total plan for the continuity of the corrective and maintenance phases of an effective preventive dentistry program. Serves as a part of an interdisciplinary health care team to develop, implement, and sustain oral health as part of Patient Centered Medical Health Care plan to integrate oral health services in a variety of settings. **Essential Functions**: 1. Patient Evaluation. 1. Obtain health history. 2. Take radiographic survey as needed. 3. Give preliminary oral examination as necessary to chart visually identifiable decay, restorations, and oral abnormalities.1. Therapy. Oral prophylaxis will include manual and mechanical instrumentation (cavitron), removal of all deposits on teeth (stains, plaque, and calculus) as well as root planning procedures and topical fluoride application. 2. Recall. The Dental Hygienist is responsible for the implementation of an effective recall system necessary for the monitoring of patient performance over a period of time. It should be recognized that an efficient recall system is one of the key ingredients to an effective preventive program. 3. Patient Education. The Dental Hygienist will be responsible for ensuring that patients receive necessary educational counseling of preventive dentistry. Such counseling will include motivation, plaque control, proper diet and nutrition, tobacco cessation, etc. 4. Refer the patient to appropriate services upon completion…