View Job description for Instructor, Dental Hygiene

Contract Length: 

11 months

Reports To: 

Department Chair, Medical Assistant

Position Status:

FT - Full-Time

Posted Pay Range: 

$72,000 - $89,000

As a Dental Hygiene Faculty member, you will combine your clinical knowledge with student-centered teaching to help students build the technical skills, professional judgment, confidence, and compassion needed for successful careers. You’ll work alongside experienced faculty and contribute to a program focused on preparing highly skilled professionals for the healthcare workforce.

Whether you are an experienced educator or a clinical professional ready to explore teaching, CWI provides an opportunity to make a meaningful difference while continuing to grow professionally.

Why Join CWI?

At CWI, you can leverage the career experience you’ve already built to make a new kind of impact. Our faculty play a critical role in preparing the skilled professionals who strengthen Idaho’s healthcare workforce.

Inspire and prepare future dental hygiene professionals

• Deliver engaging, student-centered instruction that connects classroom concepts to real-world clinical practice.
• Teach assigned courses in accordance with CWI policies, program standards, and curriculum.
• Create an engaging learning environment that challenges students while supporting their individual needs and success.
• Assess student learning and provide timely, meaningful feedback that helps students grow.

Bring current clinical expertise into the learning environment

• Use your professional experience and current dental hygiene knowledge to make learning relevant and career-focused.
• Incorporate current practices, technologies, standards, and industry expectations into instruction.
• Help students develop the clinical judgment, technical skills, professionalism, and confidence required for practice.
• Continuously strengthen course content, instructional approaches, and assessments based on student and program needs.

Mentor students and contribute to their success

• Serve as a faculty resource and mentor as students navigate their academic and professional development.
• Support students in connecting their education to career opportunities and professional expectations.
• Build positive relationships that encourage student engagement, persistence, and achievement.

Shape the future of the Dental Hygiene program

• Collaborate with faculty and colleagues to strengthen curriculum and student learning.
• Participate in program planning, assessment, committees, and institutional or community activities.
• Engage in professional development to strengthen teaching effectiveness and advances student achievement.
• Bring your ideas, experience, and professional perspective to the continued growth of the program.

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in Dental Hygiene from a program accredited by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), or a professional degree in dentistry (DDS or DMD).

Current, unencumbered Idaho dental hygiene or dentist license, or eligibility for Idaho licensure.

Certification in local anesthesia and nitrous oxide administration.

Three or more years of recent clinical dental hygiene or dental practice experience.

Current CPR/BLS certification.

Strong communication, organization, collaboration, and interpersonal skills.

A genuine interest in teaching, mentoring, and helping students succeed. 

Additional Instructions for Applicants:

• Successful candidates must reside within Idaho
• Employment visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Benefits:

For more information on health insurance, including coverage details and plan summaries, visit www.OGI.Idaho.gov  

• Retirement plans with employer contribution of over 11%
• Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts 
• Employer-paid life insurance and short- and long-term disability insurance 
• Eleven paid holidays per year (faculty may vary)
• Generous vacation and sick leave
• Paid Parental Leave
• Tuition discount on classes at CWI and other colleges

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other applicable legally protected status.