Adjunct Instructor, Clinical Dental Hygiene

The Dental Hygiene Clinical Instructor is an adjunct position which works with dental hygiene students during clinical rotations on campus. Under the supervision of the Dental Hygiene Program Director and working directly with the dental hygiene clinic coordinator, clinical dental hygiene instructors will be responsible for the dental hygiene clinical instruction in the areas of dental hygiene care process including clinical skills and evaluation of clinical procedures. In addition to these responsibilities, dental hygiene clinical instructors will find themselves performing as role models for students and public relations with patients. On occasion, an instructor will need to give direct patient care, such as removing a difficult area of calculus, as part of a teaching-learning situation.

*Work hours will vary throughout the work week.

Compensation: $33.39/hr.

Priority Screening Date:Position is open until filled.

Starting Date:As soon as practical after the hiring process.

• Abides by College and department policies and philosophies and fulfills department and College responsibilities as directed by the program director and/or Dean of the School of Health Professions.
• Ensures that instruction meets or exceeds standards established by the ADA Commission on Dental Accreditation.
• Remains in clinic for the duration of all clinical sessions.
• Supervises all care/treatment plans developed by students and approved by clinic faculty as outlined in the Wyoming State Dental Practice Act.
• Administers and grades clinical skills in accordance with course objectives identified in the course syllabus.
• Supervises and grades clinical rotator duties performed by students.
• Employs a variety of teaching methods in order to meet the varied learning styles of students.
• Monitors student performance and provides feedback to students in a reasonable amount of time.
• Follow the dental hygiene student clinic handbook policies and procedures and participates with faculty and program director to update as needed.
• Supervises students during the administration of local anesthesia and monitoring of nitrous oxide for clinic patients.
• Respond to emergency situations and implements emergency procedures.
• Communicates with faculty and Program Director about students' needs, attendance and achievements.
• Attends continuing education/methodology by participation in workshops, seminars, regional and/or national meetings.
• Upholds expected standards of professionalism, quality, and ethics and in so doing serves as a role model for students.
• Attend regularly scheduled department meetings.
• Participate in trainings, orientations and college required activities.
• Assist in dental hygiene program accreditation process.
• Perform other duties delegated by the Faculty Program Director of Dental Hygiene.
• Supports the College and Dental Hygiene mission and initiatives.
• Follow all OSHA and BBP (Blood borne Pathogen) federal guidelines
• Administers local anesthetic agents, laser, and nitrous oxide
• Assist other team members, including front office responsibilities

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge

• Customer and Personal Service – Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Education and Training – Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
• Mechanical – Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Medicine and Dentistry — Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
• Public Safety and Security — Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
• Regulatory Compliance – Knowledge of laws, regulations and standards applicable to the job. (OSHA, FERPA, HIPAA, Title IX, WY state Rules and Regulations in Dentistry).

• Active Learning - Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
• Active Listening - giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.
• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Conflict Management – Use of tools, skills and processes to find respectful and creative ways to resolve disputes and disagreements.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Equipment Selection – Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Instructing - Teaching others how to do something.
• Interpersonal Skills – Ability to interact effectively with others, build relationships, and manage interpersonal dynamics.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Learning Strategies - Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.
• Monitoring - Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.
• Office suite software - Microsoft Office software
• Speaking – Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Troubleshooting - Determining causes of operating errors and deciding what to do about it.

• Attention to Detail – The ability to observe, analyze, and comprehend even the most minute aspects of a task or situation.
• Communication – The ability to effectively express your thoughts, ideas, and messages to diverse people in oral and written form. Public speaking skills and ability to write/edit emails, letters, and technical reports.
• Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
• Emotional Intelligence – Ability to manage both your own emotions and understand the emotions of people around you.
• Finger Dexterity – The ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
• Hearing Sensitivity – The ability to detect or tell the differences between sounds that vary in pitch and loudness.
• Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Manual Dexterity – The ability to quickly move your hand, your hand together with your arm, or your two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Mathematical Reasoning - The ability to choose the right mathematical methods or formulas to solve a problem.
• Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem.
• Reaction Time – The ability to quickly respond (with the hand, finger, or foot) to a signal (sound, light, picture) when it appears.
• Speech Clarity – The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you.
• Speech Recognition – The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person.
• Time Sharing - The ability to shift back and forth between two or more activities or sources of information.

• Comply with highly inflexible deadlines; there will be multiple occurrences of sudden, urgent task completion required
• Adapt to a variable work schedule; including occasional evenings and weekends as needed
• Frequently move around the assigned work areas as well as within hallways, meeting rooms, and other parts of the campus facilities
• Engage in multiple/daily instances of prolonged sitting, standing, and personal computer use, which would include keyboard and/or mouse usage as well as viewing a computer monitor
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds; a team lift technique is required for lifts exceeding 50 pounds
• Ability to effectively listen and perceive the nature of sounds and spoken words at normal speaking levels with or without correction
• Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound
• Ability to travel as required
• To successfully perform in this role, an employee must be able to address small groups, mid-size groups and on occasion, very large groups for public announcements, speeches, fundraising activities/requests, etc.; there may be multiple instances of this type of ‘public address’ role

NOTE: Thisposition description is a general description; it is not intended as an employment contract, nor is it intended to describe all duties someone in this position may perform. All employees of the College are expected to perform other tasks as assigned by their respective supervisor/manager regardless of job title or routine job duties.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduate of a program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation
• Associate's of science degree or higher in Dental Hygiene
• Current Wyoming dental hygiene license or eligibility to obtain Wyoming License
• Minimum of two years clinical experience as a hygienist
• Healthcare Provider CPR Certification

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior teaching experience
• Certification to administer local anesthesia, laser, and nitrous oxide
• Five years full-time dental hygiene clinical experience
• Meet immunization requirements for clinical sites

If you are selected for the position, your appointment is contingent upon successful completion of a background check. LCCC reserves the right to end this employment agreement should the results of your background investigation not be successful.

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