Community Health Dental Hygienist

About the role

Join the Indian Health Service as a Community Health Dental Hygienists and support quality healthcare services for American Indian communities. Guided by our mission to improve the health of American Indian and Alaska Native people, you will help deliver safe and effective dental services while creating healthy smiles, restoring confidence, and promoting overall wellness in the communities we serve.

Responsibilities

• Help Provide advanced prophylactic, periodontal, and preventive oral care for patients of all ages.
• Conducts preliminary dental screenings and reviews patient medical/dental histories.
• Performs intraoral and extraoral examinations, including periodontal charting, oral cancer screening, and evaluation of soft/hard tissues for evidence of disease or pathology.
• Captures and interprets digital dental radiographs within scope; identifies periodontal status, caries, calculus, bone levels, and abnormalities for dentist review.
• Instructs patients, families, staff, and community partners in oral hygiene techniques using demonstrations, visual aids, and culturally appropriate materials.
• Plan, deliver, evaluate, and document preventive oral health programs that enhance population health.
• Serves as principal advisor for dental health promotion and disease prevention efforts across the service unit.

Requirements

Conditions of employment:

• Selectee may be subject to a probationary period
• ESEP appointees typically serve a two year trial period
• U.S. Citizenship is required
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959

Maintain Dental Hygienist licensure

• This is a designated position covered by Public Law 101-630, requiring contact or control over Indian children.

Background Investigation Requirement

• This position requires the successful completion of a federal background investigation as a condition of employment.

Financial Suitability Requirement

• To qualify for this position, your resume must state sufficient experience and/or education, to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are applying.

Education

• This position has an education requirement.

Additional information

• Reasonable Accommodation (RA) Requests: If you believe you have a disability (i.e., physical or mental), covered by the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended that would interfere with completing the USA Hire Competency Based Assessments, you will be granted the opportunity to request a RA in your online application.

Qualifications

• Your resume must demonstrate at least one (1) year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-06 grade level in the Federal service (obtained in either the private or public sector) performing the following type of work and/or tasks:
  • prepare and conduct educational lectures and demonstrations on dental hygiene;
  • plan and implement preventive oral public health program;
  • provide advice and policy guidance to dental personnel on public health matters;
  • recommend improved methods of dental hygiene;
  • perform full range of preventive and periodontal dental hygiene procedures, such as conduct preliminary dental screenings, provide oral prophylaxis and hygiene treatment for patients with abnormal conditions (such as patients with cancer of the head/neck/chest area, diabetic patients, patients with blood disorders and heart disease, etc.), and develop individualized dental hygiene treatment plans based on patient needs, oral conditions, and required sequence of care.

Pay

Final determination will be made at the time of appointment.