Dental Project Manager

Description

Join Elica’s mission and become a part of a team where every day is an opportunity to make a positive impact in your community!

At Elica Health Centers, we share a common goal: provide the best possible patient care to our growing community! Our passion extends throughout Elica, from the exceptional healthcare services we provide to our underserved patients at our Community Health Clinics and state-of-the-art mobile medicine program:
Health on Wheels, to our Resource Center where we empower patients and members of the community to connect with resources to help them build healthy and full lives.

The Dental Project Director is responsible for leading operational projects and initiatives designed to improve dental access, schedule utilization, patient volume, and overall operational efficiency across Elica Health Centers’ dental program.

A primary focus of this position is ensuring that dental provider and hygienist schedules are consistently and effectively utilized. The Dental Project Director will analyze scheduling patterns, identify unused capacity and barriers to appointment access, and work closely with Dental Operations, clinic management, the Call Center, Outreach, and other departments to develop and implement strategies that increase completed dental visits.

This position requires a highly proactive, data-driven individual who can identify operational gaps, develop practical solutions, coordinate implementation across multiple teams, and monitor results.

Elica Health Centers offers a competitive, comprehensive benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and work-life balance.
Highlights include:

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance – Choice of PPO medical plans through Anthem Blue Cross, including a Premier PPO option with $0 in-network out-of-pocket costs, plus dental and vision coverage. Health Plans include care navigation and provider support resources to help with finding care, understanding benefits, and billing questions.
  
  Coverage options are available for individual and family tiers.
  Retirement – 403(b) plan with up to 4% employer match and immediate vesting
• Paid Time Off – Up to 3 weeks of vacation in the first year, plus 7 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday
• Ancillary & Voluntary Benefits – Employer-paid life insurance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), and optional supplemental benefits

Eligibility: Benefits are available to employees working 30+ hours per week
, effective the first of the month following 30 days of employment.

Compensation Disclosure: $110,000 - $126,500

The compensation range listed reflects Elica’s good-faith estimate of the anticipated hiring range for this position in accordance with California pay transparency requirements. Final compensation will be determined based on job-related factors, including relevant experience, education, certifications, skills, and qualification.

The successful candidate will be willing and able to:

• Monitor dental provider and hygienist schedules across all Elica dental locations to identify open appointments, unused capacity, scheduling gaps, and opportunities to increase patient access.
• Develop and implement strategies to maximize schedule utilization and completed dental visits.
• Establish processes for proactively filling cancellations and unexpected schedule openings.
• Monitor same-day and near-term availability and coordinate efforts to fill open appointments.
• Analyze scheduling patterns by provider, location, appointment type, day of the week, and other relevant factors.
• Identify recurring causes of underutilized schedules and develop…