Dental Hygiene Clinical Instructor

About the role

This is an in-person position at our downtown Spokane campus.

Responsibilities

• Interact with the students and patients for the benefit of the patient’s oral health care.
• Provide written and oral feedback to students, evaluating their clinical performance in an objective and positive manner.
• Assist students in supervising clinic check in and check out procedures in a timely manner.
• Model professionalism in all manners of conduct and presentation.
• Follow the same requirements for dress code, piercings, hair, shoes, PPE, etc. as the students in the course they are instructing.
• Be familiar with clinic course syllabi, particularly with regards to clinic requirements by accepting enrollment and reviewing documents in appropriate CANVAS courses.
• Use CANVAS learning management system for student assessment and grading. Utilize iPad and or laptop computers for clinical and laboratory assessment and grading.
• Be knowledgeable of the content in the Clinic Policies and Procedures Manual, providing suggestions for future editions of the manual.
• Be prompt in attending assigned clinical sessions.
• Be responsible for planning and implementing assigned stations for clinic workshops.
• Attend regularly scheduled faculty in-service meetings.
• Regularly receive training in educational methodologies.

Qualifications

• Meet annual continuing education requirements for re-licensure (i.e. 15 hours continuing education/year).
• Maintain current certification in Healthcare Provider Basic Life Support (at least every two years), providing the operations manager with a copy of the certification.
• Maintain current Washington State Dental Hygiene license, providing the operations manager with a copy of the license.
• Document compliance with hepatitis B vaccination or sign a declination form.
• Document yearly tuberculosis skin testing or sign a declination form.
• Minimum BA in Dental Hygiene.

Skills

• Ability to work independently.
• Ability to work collaboratively.

Benefits

May become eligible for benefits after 6 months.

Pay

$35/hour with bachelors in Dental Hygiene and registered hygienist in WA
$40/hour with bachelors in Dental Hygiene and a masters in related field and registered hygienist in WA

Schedule

Shifts: AM shift is from 7:45am-12pm, PM shift goes from 1pm-5pm. Please let us know your availability in your cover letter. Tuesday and Wednesday assistance is especially needed at this time.