General Dentist, On Call, SBHC

Overview

POSITION:
General Dentist, On Call
DEPARTMENT:
Dental

REPORTS TO:

Dental Director

LOCATION:

Native American Health Center, Inc. (NAHC) 2950 International Blvd. Oakland, CA 94601; 160 Capp Street San Francisco, CA 94110

WORK HOURS:

On Call, up to 30 hours per week, 75% FTE
STATUS:
Non-Union, Non-Exempt

Position Summary The General Dentist (GD) is a key member of the School-Based Health Center Department. The GD will substitute for other dentists when they are out of the office and will perform general dentist duties and work as a part of a team to provide high quality dental care across our School-Based Health Center Sites. The SBHC Department collaborates with three school districts to provide comprehensive health services at seven SBHCs with the mission to reduce health inequities by focusing on prevention and youth development.

The Native American Health Center is an accredited institution and adheres to the standards of excellence by the Accreditation of Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) and the Commission of Dental Accreditation (CODA).

Clinical Responsibilities

• Provide high quality dental services to NAHC’s beneficiary population, including preventive health screenings, and oral health education.
• Adhere to dental visit model of NAHC; proactive in teaching DA’s, seeing members on time and communicating barriers to supervisors.
• Read and accurately interpret dental radiographs in a manner that ensures member, and/or parent/guardian, comprehension and share findings with member.
• Provide dental prophylactic treatment and topical fluoride treatment.
• Provide complete dental examinations and treatment planning.
• Accurately diagnose and help ensure thorough treatment of dental illnesses, disease, and disorders.
• Perform extractions, surgical procedures, endodontics, prosthetics, periodontics, and restorative services within one’s scope of experience.
• Refer members for specialized dental care as needed.
• Prepare members for dental health services and instruct them in appropriate post-dental treatment, diet, education and oral hygiene.
• Answer patients’ questions and perform procedures considering patients’ comfort levels.
• Obtain member’s final impressions.
• Obtain and accurately record basic medical and dental histories and other relevant information for updating patient registration information.
• Perform dental lab procedures as necessary.

General Duties

• Attend regularly scheduled site/department meetings and trainings as assigned by supervisor.
• Participate in trainings of other dental personnel as requested.
• Maintain positive public relations with members, guests and staff.
• Member Care:
  Demonstrate understanding and apply working knowledge of safety policies and ensuring safe member practices.
• Be knowledgeable on programs related to the dental department.
• Work collaboratively with, and support the activities of the clinical data team, ensuring optimal accuracy and performance on clinical outcome measures.
• Collaborate with administration in addressing staff and member complaints.
• Participate in internal and external accreditation processes (i.e. CODA, AAAHC).
• Employee Safety:
  Safely perform all duties; follow required protective protocols to ensure personal safety as well the safety of others.
• Must maintain compliance with ergonomic safety standards; be mindful of posture and regularly practice ergonomic stretches.
• Quality Improvement:
  Actively participate in internal quality improvement teams and work with members proactively to drive quality improvement initiatives in accordance with the mission and strategic goals of the organization, federal and state laws and regulations, and accreditation standards, when assigned.
• Work well under pressure, meet multiple and often competing deadlines.
• At all times demonstrate cooperative behavior with supervisors, subordinates, colleagues, clients and the community.
• Other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

Scope of Work

• Be able to see between 6-8 members per day, and complete accurate documentation of visit into the electronic dental record (EDR) system.
• Work as a dental team assisting other providers in completing their responsibilities as necessary, e.g. seeing…