Part-Time Dentist

interiorhealthalaska; Fairbanks (AK); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The dentist will report to work as scheduled, provide direct patient care, and supervise dental assistants in collaboration with the Dental Director. They will coordinate with clinic and community providers to deliver integrated, multidisciplinary primary dental care.

Qualifications

• Alaska dental license and DEA registration.
• Current BLS certification.
• Experience with medically underserved populations and EDRs; Dentrix preferred.

Responsibilities

• Report on time and ready to work for assigned schedule.
• Provide direct patient care to dental patients.
• Supervise dental assistants with Dental Director.
• Coordinate services with clinic and community providers for comprehensive care.
• Collaborate with center and community providers for integrated primary care services.
• Participate in quality improvement and ensure compliance with laws and policies.

Skills

Coordinate care

Excellent communication

Organization & prioritization

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.