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Wellpath
Windham, Maine

Dental Hygienist

DentalFull-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

  • You Matter
  • Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
  • Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
  • Excellent career growth opportunities

Join Us and Find a Career That Supports

  • Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
  • Autonomy in a warm team environment
  • Growth and training

Perks and Benefits

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:

  • DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
  • Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
  • Company paid life insurance
  • Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
  • Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
  • Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

Why Us

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.

If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals.

Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most.

For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.

Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.

How You Make a Difference

The Dental Hygienist provides dental care and promotes dental health by performing a variety of tasks under the supervision of a licensed dentist. They assess patient needs, clean teeth, take and develop dental x-rays, and educate patients on proper oral hygiene. They adhere to all relevant laws, regulations, and protocols related to dental hygiene and maintain accurate patient records.

Key Responsibilities

  • Prepare treatment room and select materials and equipment for dental hygiene visits.
  • Provide oral hygiene and postoperative instructions to patients and answer their questions.

Maintain and sterilize dental instruments, document dental hygiene services and maintain confidentiality of patient information.

Maintain a safe and clean working environment, adhere to infection-control policies and protocols, and conserve dental resources.

Ensure proper functioning of dental equipment by completing preventive maintenance, troubleshooting malfunctions, and evaluating new equipment and techniques

Qualifications & Requirements

Education

Graduate from an accredited Dental Hygienist school

Experience

  • Two (2) years’ experience
  • Previous correctional/detention facility experience
  • Five (5) years’ experience

Licenses/Certifications

  • Unrestricted current Dental Hygiene license, certification or registration in state of practice - must maintain all certifications, educational requirements, licensing, etc.
  • Current (and must maintain) lifesaving BLS certification through AHA
  • Current (and must maintain) lifesaving ACLS certification through AHA
  • This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

We Are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.

We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.

Requirements

Candidates must be graduates of an accredited Dental Hygienist school and hold an unrestricted state license. The role requires current BLS and ACLS certifications and at least two years of relevant experience.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient assessmentOral hygiene educationSterilizationClinical documentationPatient record maintenanceCompassionate care

Dental Hygiene Career Context

The cost-of-living index for Maine is 97.1 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.0% of Maine clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Of the 50 active Dental Hygienist listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 34% have no call, 62% require no weekends.

Top Dental Hygienist Jobs

35 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution29 jobs · 27 employers

10
<$110k
11
$110k-125k
5
$125k-140k
1
$146k
2
$156k

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks28 jobs · 27 employers

401k / retirement match
93% this job
CME allowance
57%
Sign-on bonus
36%
Loan repayment
11%
Relocation assistance
11%

Share of similar jobs offering each benefit

#1

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Independence Dental Services LP · Chicago, Illinois

$75/hr
#2

Dental Hygienist

Platinum Dental Services · Colorado Springs, Colorado

$65-$75/hr
#3

Dental Hygienist

$65-$70/hr
#4

Registered Dental Hygienist (RDH)

$65-$67/hr
+ 33 more · ranked by pay

Work-life snapshot

median 3.9this job 1.5
Better work-life than 20% of Dental Hygienist listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,151 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in Windham

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$521k
Typical market rent
$2,350/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
101.9
State income tax
Up to 7.2%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Portland-South Portland, ME metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Wellpath

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Benefits & Perks

Medical Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Time Off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program