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Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH) – Specialist Practice
Location: Louisville, KY
Schedule: Full-Time – 4 days a week – Fridays off
We are a premier specialist dental office in Louisville dedicated to complete and total patient dental care. We do some very life-changing cases. We need a hygienist. We aren’t looking for a standard hygiene churn-and-burn. We are looking for a clinical partner who enjoys the nuances of specialty care—someone who can manage long-term maintenance programs, coordinate with our specialists, and make complex treatment plans easy for our patients to understand.
What You’ll Do (Responsibilities)
- Specialized Care: Provide high-quality periodontal maintenance, scaling, and root planing, and assist with complex post-operative care.
- Clinical Collaboration: Work hand-in-hand with our doctors to ensure seamless hand-offs and consistent patient education.
- Documentation: Maintain precise clinical notes and charting within our practice management software ([Insert Software Name]).
- Patient Education: Translate complex specialist treatment plans into actionable home-care advice that patients can actually follow.
- Workflow Efficiency: Maintain a sterile environment and assist in maintaining the flow of a fast-paced specialist schedule.
What We Need (Requirements)
- Licensure: Active Kentucky Registered Dental Hygienist license in good standing.
- Experience:5+years of experience. (While general experience is great, experience in a specialist setting is preferred.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in digital radiography and [Specific Software/Equipment].
- Soft Skills: A calm, empathetic demeanor. Our patients are often coming in with complex dental issues; they need a clinician who listens as well as they scale.
- Communication: Ability to confidently discuss periodontal health and systemic links with patients.
Why Join Us?
- Competitive Compensation: We offer competitive compensation, commensurate with experience.
- Benefits: Very competitive benefit package which includes paid medical, 401k match as well as bonuses.
- Culture: We prioritize a supportive, non-toxic work environment where the doctor/hygienist relationship is built on mutual respect.