Chief Dental Officer

at GraceMed Health Clinic in Wichita, Kansas, United States

Job Description

Practicing at GraceMed

If you are a healthcare professional, we appreciate your interest in practicing in a community health setting at GraceMed. This is a clinical environment where you can be a part of a diverse team of professionals who come together to address the whole health of the patient. You’ll make a difference you can see every day as you care for patients who are often high-risk because of their underserved status. You’ll be fully supported by a staff and organization set up to let you focus on delivering care. And you’ll be part of a team that has distinguished itself for its quality of care and outcomes.

Reporting Relationship: Reports to the Chief Executive Officer
Supervision Responsibilities: Yes

Essential Role: Provides professional dental services to complement the delivery of primary health care services at GraceMed Health Clinic; provides clinical leadership and supervision of dental providers, dental staff, and dental support staff.

Reporting Relationships: This position has a primary obligation to the Corporation as a whole and reports to the Chief Executive Officer with a dotted line to the Associate Executive Officer for quality outcomes.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Oversees the management and supervision of dentists, hygienists and assistants and delegates authority and responsibility when and where needed. Assists with professional development of dental providers.
• Responsible for answering staff medical questions and responding to emergencies.
• Approves and maintains treatment protocols utilized by dentists and hygienists.
• Provides dental evaluation, treatment and consultation services to patients of the clinic.
• Oversees patient education including importance of maintaining appointment sequence, incorporating parents into child dental regime, discussing home care status, discussing techniques, and reviewing ancillary tests.
• Oversees the obtainment and documentation of the appropriate chief complaint, past medical, family and social history, review of systems, examination, medications and allergies, assessment and plan for each patient.
• Provides medical orders for prescription refills, administration of medications, ancillary testing, and/or referrals.
• Completes appropriate paperwork to comply with insurance and reimbursement guidelines.
• Monitors clinical areas for staffing needs and submits recommendations.
• Provides assistance for the orientation and training of dentists and hygienists.
• Provides quality assurance, patient care assessment, risk management, and program evaluation services as a member of the QA Committee. Reviews an adequate sample of clinic’s medical records with particular emphasis on the appropriateness, efficiency, and quality of care provided. Take appropriate corrective steps, in collaboration with the appropriate administrative, supervisory or clinical personnel. Maintains appropriate records of all reviews and actions.
• Provides utilization and peer review services regarding the medical necessity and appropriateness of outpatient and inpatient services provided to patients of the clinic. The appropriate supervisor shall review an adequate sample of clinic’s medical records to ensure that examinations, diagnosis, anticipated goals, medical orders, treatments and therapies, and documentation thereof, are timely, appropriate and of acceptable professional quality.
• Reviews and responds, in collaboration with supervisor, to any complaint or grievance specifically related to patient care or dental education.
• Participates in public relations and community outreach activities as clinic shall from time-to-time reasonably request.
• Provides assistance with OSHA, emergency preparedness, infection control and regulatory compliance.
• Reports on the performance of dental services to supervisor on a quarterly basis, in the manner and form adopted as adequate and appropriate and assists with development of programs to increase or improve clinical services.
• Participates in budget development.
• Assists with screening of applicants for clinical positions.
• Conducts and attends appropriate meetings as required.

 
Working Conditions: Dental office setting.  Ability to sit and/or stand for long periods of time. Bending, stooping, and lifting (up to 50lbs.) may be required.  Interaction with physicians, patients and other office personnel. May involve contact with angry, upset or ill persons.  May involve potential exposure to blood and body fluids and other hazardous substances.  Must have visual acuity and manual dexterity to interface with computer.  Must have auditory acuity to handle phone calls.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed.  They are not intended to be construed, as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

This job description has been examined for compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (May 1995).

GraceMed Health Clinic is an equal opportunity organization and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, or for any other discriminatory reason prohibited by applicable law.