Part-Time Dentist

Interior Community Health Center; Fairbanks (AK); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Interior Community Health Center seeks a licensed dentist to provide comprehensive preventive and restorative dental services two to three days per week, serving ethnically diverse patient populations across the lifespan.

The role emphasizes coordination with medical, behavioral health and dental staff, participation in quality improvement, and compliance with OSHA, CLIA and billing practices within a multispecialty primary care setting in Alaska.

Qualifications

• Alaska dental license with DEA registration.
• Current BLS certification.
• Two years post-graduate practice preferred.
• Experience with Electronic Dental Records required; Dentrix preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide direct patient care to dental patients.
• Supervise dental assistants in conjunction with Dental Director.
• Coordinate services with clinic and community providers to ensure comprehensive dental care.
• Coordinate with Center’s and community providers for integrated primary care services.
• Participate in quality improvement activities.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA, CLIA, coding and billing, and patient care standards.
• Remain current with standards of practice.
• Participate in community meetings.
• Assist with development of collaborative memorandums of agreement.
• Comply with corporation policies and procedures.
• Utilize personal computer.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Interprofessional coordination

Communication

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Alaska dental license

DEA registration

BLS certification

Tools

Dentrix

Electronic Dental Records

Job description

This position provides comprehensive coordinated preventive dental services two to three days per week to an ethnically diverse patient populations across the lifespan.

Minimum Qualifications:

Education

Dentist Licensed in the State of Alaska and DEA registration. Current certification in BLS.

Experience

Experience in dealing with medically underserved populations. Experience with Electronic Dental Records required; experience with Dentrix preferred. Two years post-graduate practice experience preferred.

Essential Functions:

1. Report to work as scheduled, on time and prepared to start working. Remain at work for their entire work schedule.
2. Provides direct patient care to dental patients of the Interior Community Health Center.
3. Supervises, in conjunction with Dental Director, dental assistants.
4. Coordinates services with clinic and community providers to ensure delivery of comprehensive dental care services.
5. Coordinates with Center’s and community’s providers to ensure delivery of integrated multidisciplinary comprehensive primary care services.
6. Participates in center’s continuous quality improvement systems and activities.
7. Assists with the center’s dental procedures and systems to assure compliance with federal laws, regulations and standards of practice, including, dental policies and procedures, OSHA, CLIA, patient care, employee health, coding and billing.
8. Remains current with standards of practice.
9. Participates in community meetings.
10. Participates in development of written collaborative and memorandums of agreement for Center’s and patient services.
11. Complies with corporation’s policies and procedures.
12. Utilizes personal computer.
13. Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

Ability to coordinate care with other medical, behavioral health and dental staff.

Knowledge of dental clinic operations.

Ability to support and work collaboratively with clinicians and administrators to oversee dental and business plan.

Basic computer skills to include proficiency with Electronic Dental Records.

Excellent oral and written communication, problem solving and negotiation skills.

Ability to organize and prioritize tasks.

Ability to work under pressure.

Ability to work as successful integrated multi-disciplinary primary health care team.