Local Chief Dentist; O-Billet Supervisory

Summary

The Local Chief Dentist, Advanced Clinic oversees dental program management, staff supervision, and patient care at DHS ICE facilities. Responsibilities include supervising dental staff, ensuring access to care, managing clinic operations, maintaining safety protocols, and supporting accreditation reviews. Requires DDS/DMD, unrestricted license, 6+ years clinical, and 2+ years supervisory experience.

Summary

The Local Chief Dentist, Advanced Clinic oversees dental program management, staff supervision, and patient care at DHS ICE facilities. Responsibilities include supervising dental staff, ensuring access to care, managing clinic operations, maintaining safety protocols, and supporting accreditation reviews. Requires DDS/DMD, unrestricted license, 6+ years clinical, and 2+ years supervisory experience.

This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates.

Duties

Duties And Responsibilities

• Provides front line supervision of 3 or more dental staff including at least one additional dentist by planning, assigning, evaluating and directing work and exercising complete administrative control of subordinates in carrying out program policies. Provides staff orientation, training, and competency testing. Completes performance evaluations for federal dental staff. Serves as the leave granting authority for federal dental staff.
• Oversees dental care for complex facility with 1000 or greater capacity. Provides emergent, urgent, and routine oral health care for medically and dentally complicated patient population. Exercises independent judgment in making treatment decisions and monitors appropriateness of care provided by staff dentist and auxiliary staff. Exhibits flexibility to adapt to unusual circumstances requiring variations in approach and in the presence of incomplete or conflicting findings.
  
  Establishes and directs multi-provider scheduling to ensure timely access to care. Performs electronic health record documentation and forms management. Proper judgment is required to prevent serious delays in provision of dental services and avoid adverse impact on the health status of thousands of patients processed through facility.
• Local subject-matter-expert on dental care and dental clinic operations, collaborates with local and regional clinical and administrative leadership to inform and develop local policies and procedures. Provides guidance and mentorship to interdisciplinary junior staff to develop clinical judgement, leadership, and interpersonal skills.
• Serves as the responsible dental health authority for the facility on behalf of the health services administrator. Collaborates with multiple stakeholders including IHSC, ICE, and detention staff to plan and administer all aspects of dental unit operations: patient care, budget, management, scheduling, staffing, training, evaluations, supplies, equipment, and maintenance. Prepares and guides dental program through 5+ recurring independent accreditations and reviews.
• Develops, oversees, and monitors dental clinic environmental health and safety protocols including hazardous materials management, radiation safety, and sharps/instruments safety in accordance with IHSC policy. Oversees and assures optimum sterilization and disinfection procedures in the dental clinic in accordance with IHSC policy and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines.
• Provides initial and annual dental training to qualified health care professionals.
• Participates in local and national quality improvement initiatives. May perform peer reviews for IHSC dentists as requested by the IHSC chief dentist.
• Utilizes extensive knowledge base and independent judgement to serve as a project officer for tasks as assigned (e.g., equipment acquisitions, training program development, and policy and procedure revisions and development). Attends national dental teleconferences, agency teleconferences, and local duty station meetings. Collects, organizes, and submits dental data.
• Position may require up to 30% TDY travel to support mission critical staffing.
• Other duties as assigned in support of the local medical unit and/or IHSC dental program.
• Adheres to IHSC policies, procedures, directives, operational memoranda, and accreditation standards as prescribed by ICE and IHSC.

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• You must successfully pass a drug screen.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service.
• Requirements by Closing Date:
  Unless otherwise noted, you must meet all requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Service Remaining Requirement Agreement:
  Upon appointment to this position, officers will be required to serve an 18 to 24-month commitment to IHSC.
• ASSIGNMENT PAY AGREEMENT:
  You must not have a current Assignment Pay Agreement. However, if you have a current Assignment Pay Agreement, it must be fulfilled within 90…