Dental Hygienist

Job Posting Title

Dental Hygienist

Agency

131 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Supervisory Organization

DOC Med Adm/JDCC

Job Posting End Date (Continuous if Blank)

April 28, 2025

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Full/Part-Time

Full time

Job Type

Regular

Compensation

$65,941.83

Job Description

Basic Purpose

Positions within this job family are assigned duties and responsibilities which involve professional work in providing dental hygiene services, assisting a dentist in providing dental care and treatment, providing dental hygiene examinations, or conducting health care education and training programs in preventative dental care and oral hygiene.

Typical Functions

• Cleans, sterilizes and polishes dental instruments and arranges instruments in cabinets.
• Prepares patients for treatment; prepares trays of instruments and supplies.
• Cleans patients' teeth by removing lime calculus deposits, accretions and stains from exposed surfaces of teeth and directly beneath the free margins of the gum; gives topical caries prevention treatment to the coronal surfaces of the teeth.
• Performs functions such as dental charting, periodontal charting, classifying occlusions, treatment of dry sockets, preparing, placing, and removing periodontal packs, placement of temporary fillings, cleaning of removable prostheses, and removal of overhanging margins under close supervision and with specific direction by a dentist.
• Makes dental inspections; demonstrates, with models and other visual aids, preventive dental care to individuals and groups; participates in in-service training programs; prepares and delivers lectures on dental health before groups of school, civic and professional personnel.
• Plans, implements, and evaluates dental health education or prevention programs; provides consultation in dental care and oral hygiene; participates in the training of dental assistants and others in providing dental care and education.

Level Descriptor

This is the career level where incumbents will be assigned responsibilities at the full performance level, performing duties at all levels of complexity in performing professional dental hygiene work and may provide training or guidance to others in completing various dental care or education activities.

Education and Experience

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of an Oklahoma certificate of eligibility to practice dental hygiene from the Oklahoma Board of Dentistry.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required at this level include knowledge of principles and practices of dental hygiene; of the routine terms, instruments, supplies, equipment and procedures used in the operation of dental clinics; of types of sterilization and sterile techniques; of methods of processing and developing x-ray film; of oral anatomy and standards of oral hygiene; of practices of hygiene and nutrition as related to dental health; and of basic techniques of teaching. Ability is required to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others; to plan, organize and give dental treatment and dental hygiene examinations; and to provide training and instruction in dental care and oral hygiene.

Special Requirements

Additional Job Description

Medical/Allen Gamble Correctional Center

Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.

Current active State of Oklahoma employees must apply for open positions internally through the Workday Jobs Hub.