Endodontist-Part-time (Riverside & San Diego County

Endodontist

Community health is about more than just vaccines and checkups. It's about giving people the resources they need to live their best lives. At Neighborhood, this is our vision. A community where everyone is healthy and happy. We're with you every step of the way, with the care you need for each of life's chapters. At Neighborhood, we are Better Together.

As a private, non-profit 501(C) (3) community health organization, we serve over 350k medical, dental, and behavioral health visits from more than 77k people annually. We do this in pursuit of our mission to improve the health and happiness of the communities we serve by providing quality care to all, regardless of situation or circumstance.

We have been doing this since 1969 and it is our employees that make this mission a reality. Regardless of the role, our team focuses on being compassionate, having integrity, being professional, always collaborating, and consistently going above and beyond. If that sounds like an organization you want to be a part of, we would love to have you.

Role Overview and Purpose

The Endodontist (dental specialist) works to support the mission and vision of Neighborhood Healthcare (NHC) by providing endodontic services to patients. This role will perform endodontic procedures and services to patients. In addition, this role will impart health education information, relevant techniques to patients, as well as advising patients on post-surgery dental care, and prescribing suitable pain-relief medication.

Responsibilities

Direct Patient Care

• Conducts, develops, and/or confirms suitable individualized in-house endodontic diagnosis and care plan based on dental conditions
• Reviewing patients' medical history and discussing their symptoms and concerns
• Utilizing dental instruments and x-ray equipment to determine the cause of patients' oral pain and discomfort
• Provides appropriate endodontic dental care/services, in compliance with standard of care
• Performing nonsurgical root canal treatment to treat damaged, infected, or calcified tooth pulp and/or canals
• Performing apicoectomies to treat persistent inflammation or infection occurring in the bony area around the end of the tooth
• Maintaining teeth that have previously undergone root canal procedures (aka retreatments)
• Observes, assesses, and records patients' symptoms, reactions, and treatments progress
• Prescribes medications and provides patients with pertinent medication instructions, as needed
• Reasonably accepting of additional patients into the schedule, as feasible
• Accommodates patients with urgent dental needs, including walk-ins
• Creating and maintaining a professional appearance

Team Support

• Lead your team, dental assistants, hygienists, and other staff members to ensure smooth patient care and treatment coordination
• Works with dental team to facilitate prescription refills and paperwork completion
• Provides dental backup to NHC dental sites and clinicians, as needed
• Provides supervision, consultations, instructions to Dental Assistants and other health care delivery team members in NHC dental sites, as needed
• Serves as preceptor to dental and paraprofessional students placed with NHC

Clinical Administration

• Minimizes rescheduling of patients; provides instructions if necessary
• Completes and submits daily billing to reflect accurate coding and charges of all services rendered
• Works with management on improving efficiency, patient flow, program development, and revenues
• Maintains necessary credentialing, licensure, and continuing education requirements
• Assists management with employee evaluations for the Dental PSRs or Dental Assistants, as needed
• Participates in audits, peer reviews, patient satisfactions, protocol developments, meetings, and in-servicing trainings as available and appropriate
• Contributes to the success of NHC by participating in quality improvement activities
• Completes legible and legally defensible dental records

Education/Experience

• Doctorate degree in Dental Medicine (DMD) or Dental Surgery (DDS) required
• Completion of a post-doctoral residency program in endodontics
• Certification through the American Board of Endodontics (ABE) is preferred
• Proven experience working as…