What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dental Services Director position at Government Jobs?
About the Position
The Community Health Centers have been providing quality primary care and behavioral health services to the citizens of Lane County since 2004. We offer a broad array of services to over 20,000 adults and children annually in an outpatient setting.
Our clinics are Federally Qualified Health Centers whose mission is to serve the community by offering excellent care and eliminating barriers to healthcare. Our staff must show dedication to providing care with compassion and willingness to work with a diverse population.
Key Responsibilities:
- Oversee the operations of the expanding dental department, ensuring high-quality patient care, compliance with regulatory standards, and the achievement of organizational goals.
- Clinical supervision, administrative management, and strategic planning to enhance dental services.
- Actively treating patients for a percentage of their work week.
- Examine individuals requesting care, diagnose their dental/oral conditions, prescribe and carry out, or direct others in carrying out, appropriate dental/oral treatment, or refer individuals for specialty consultation or treatment in conformance with approved clinical protocols and guidelines.
- Record patient-dentist transactions as they occur in the patient's dental record; and complete referrals and data collections.
- Educate individuals related to oral health-related conditions and in the general promotion of oral health-related disease prevention and assist in the provision of technical assistance and health education to the community as requested.
- Ensure compliance with Federal, State, and local laws, regulations, codes, and/or standards governing the practice of dentistry and the clinical provision of dental care.
- Participate in the development and updating of policies, procedures, processes, standards, and systems to respond to changes in the regulatory environment or organizational needs.
- Develop and execute best practices for management of dental staff, both professional and ancillary, and perform periodic clinical review of all professional dental providers.
- Manage the activities of dentistry program, which includes planning, coordinating, administering, and evaluating programs, projects, and service offerings to ensures effective delivery of services.
- Supervise dental staff, including conducting performance evaluations, ensuring staff follow policies and procedures, and making hiring, termination, and disciplinary decisions.
- Develop and train assigned staff, including identifying training needs, providing constructive feedback and reinforcement, coaching on how to perform tasks, and acting as a mentor.
- Plan, prioritize, distribute, coordinate, and monitor work assignments, assign resources, reviews work product, and provides feedback and guidance on tasks and priorities.
- Ensure work is completed in a timely fashion, meets quality standards, and accomplishes organizational objectives.
