Registered Dental Hygienist

Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH) - Hybrid Outreach/Clinic

As a Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH) with Heartland Community Health Center’s Healthy Futures Mobile Dental Program, you will provide vital preventive dental care—including cleanings, sealants, X-rays, and assessments—to children directly in schools and community settings. This position is ideal for a compassionate, energetic clinician seeking a fast‑paced and rewarding experience where you’ll truly make a difference by meeting kids and families where they are.

This is a hybrid position that includes both community‑based outreach work through the Healthy Futures Dental Program and in‑clinic patient care at Heartland locations, supporting integrated care delivery and expanding access to services.

You’ll help remove barriers to care, foster trust, and create lifelong dental patients by delivering high-quality oral health services in an accessible, culturally competent way. Every day is an opportunity to improve children’s lives and long‑term health outcomes while building deep connections within the community.

This role includes the option for a 10‑month contract if you prefer to take summers off, making it a great fit for those seeking flexibility or an academic calendar‑style schedule.

Heartland offers a mission‑driven, integrated care environment that values prevention, collaboration, and team‑based care. Our RDHs enjoy:

• $3,000 SIGN‑ON BONUS
• Monthly productivity incentive bonuses
• Flexible schedules (including 4‑day workweeks)
• PSLF‑eligible employment
• Medical, dental, vision, 401(k), PTO, holidays, and wellness support

Join us and help redefine access to care—where prevention starts with you.

• Preventative and rehabilitative caries control and periodontal services:
  • Routine prophylaxis and topical application
  • Apply SDF as needed
  • Use ART technique to place interim restorations as needed
  • Scale and Root Planning
  • Remove overhangs of filling materials
  • Properly expose, process and mount oral radiographs
    
    Polish restorations
  • May use local anesthetic for procedures as needed
• Promote an atmosphere of good dental and general health by demonstrating good personal oral hygiene
• Educate patients on techniques of flossing, brushing, overall oral health, and the role of the dental care team
• Clean and sterilize instruments appropriately
• Follow infection control protocols and standard operating procedures
• Complete required daily, monthly, and annual equipment maintenance
• Wears appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Lab duties include pour and trim models and fabricating trays
• Remove the biohazard trash as needed
• Answer patient inquiries related to pain and/or medications
• Perform all duties in accordance with OSHA regulations
• Is attentive to patient needs
• Attend meetings as required (Joint Staff, Department, etc.)
• Completes assigned trainings in a timely manner
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Use safety precautions to protect patient and self‑charting:
  • Existing caries and restorations, missing teeth and prostheses
  • Periodontal assessment including but not limited to probing depths, recession, mobility, and furcation involvement
  • Complete head and neck exam, including soft tissue pathology
  • Properly make oral radiographs
  • Takes necessary safety precautions to protect patient from unnecessary radiation
• Education:
  • Educate patients on oral health maintenance and prevention (brushing, flossing, plaque control, diet, etc.)
  • Educate patients or guardians on the benefit of fluoride
  • Receive professional training from internal and external sources to establish and utilize skills to become a leader in the clinic and in the community in the integration of dental services in the primary care setting
  • Attend meetings as required (Joint Staff, Department, etc.)
  • Rotate to Medical Clinic for Medical/Dental integration
  • Empower medical teams to deliver dental screenings to medical patients. Establish team relationships and coordinate bi‑directional ‘warm handoffs’ to and from specialty dental according to established protocols
  • Goal to treat no less than 1 patient per patient‑facing hour in clinic and no less than 2 patients per patient‑facing hour in community‑based care…