Registered Dental Hygienist
Listed compensation
$65 per Hour
The week · per this posting
Schedule not stated in this posting — no days, weekends, call or nights given.
Ask the employer about the work setting, call expectations, weekend coverage and time off.
Job Description
Registered Dental Hygienist – One Day per Week
San Clemente, California | Direct Hire | Up to $65 per Hour
A-Team Dental Staffing has partnered with an established private dental practice in San Clemente, California, to recruit a confident and clinically strong Registered Dental Hygienist for a direct-hire opportunity.
The practice is seeking a hygienist with excellent periodontal charting and disease-management skills who can help strengthen its hygiene program. The ideal candidate is thorough, dependable, patient-focused, and comfortable working in a busy, outcome-oriented environment.
Schedule: One day per week
Tuesday or Wednesday
9:00 a. m.–6:00 p. m.
Team members arrive approximately 10 minutes before the first patient
Compensation
- Up to $65 per hour, based on experience
- Potential bonus opportunities
- Practice Environment
- Established for approximately 20 years
- Two-provider private practice
- Eight operatories
- Supportive team of approximately five staff members
- Assisted-hygiene model
- PPO, HMO, and fee-for-service patient base
- Results-driven and outcome-oriented environment
Responsibilities
- Perform adult and pediatric prophylaxis
- Provide periodontal maintenance and scaling and root planing
- Complete thorough and accurate periodontal charting
- Identify periodontal disease and clearly communicate clinical findings
- Educate patients about periodontal health and recommended treatment
- Perform two-quadrant SRP appointments within the practice’s established scheduling protocols
- Administer local anesthesia within the hygienist’s licensed scope
- Provide anesthesia for the doctor’s patients when needed
- Apply fluoride and dental sealants
Place Arestin and Perform Irrigation as Prescribed
- Take diagnostic-quality digital radiographs, including bitewings, panoramic images, and full-mouth series
- Establish appropriate three-, four-, or six-month recall intervals
- Maintain accurate clinical documentation in Dentrix
- Collaborate with providers regarding patient treatment and periodontal needs
- Provide excellent chairside care and help patients feel comfortable
- Follow OSHA, HIPAA, sterilization, and infection-control standards
- Software and Technology
- Dentrix
- Practice by Numbers
- Denttio imaging software
- Papaya 3D imaging system
- Qualified Registered Dental Hygienists are encouraged to apply confidentially with an updated résumé.
Requirements
- Active California Registered Dental Hygienist license
- Current CPR/BLS certification
- Local anesthesia certification
- Strong periodontal charting and clinical assessment skills
- Experience providing SRP and periodontal maintenance
- Dentrix experience preferred
- Excellent communication and patient-education skills
- Comfortable working within an assisted-hygiene model
- Dependable, organized, detail-oriented, and team-focused
- Ability to maintain quality care in a fast-paced environment
Benefits
Bonus Structure
Qualifications
- Experience
- 5+ years of experience
Key Skills
Dental Hygiene Career Context
The cost-of-living index for California is 110.7 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 63.6% of California clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
A-Team Dental Staffing holds silver-tier status on WeekdayDoc's Top Employers work-life index, composite score 71/100, 7 active listings.
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | not listed | Dental Hygienist median $130k (middle half $125k–$140k)58 comparable listings, Oct 2026 |
| Cost of living | California index 110.7 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Dental Hygienist listings in California | 576 active | 5,724 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 3% remote · 33% no call · 65% no weekends40 benchmarked listings |
| A-Team Dental Staffing | silver tier, 71/100 | Top Employers work-life index7 active listings |
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