Dentist

Community Health Care • Full-time • Puyallup, Washington State, United States • $170.88k - $208.30k / year • 2m ago

Community Health Care is a leading non-profit organization that offers quality health care to underserved patients in Pierce County. We provide comprehensive family practice care, including medical, dental, pharmacy, and behavioral health services in our seven clinics. We seek to continuously improve our commitment and service to our patients and community.

We want you to join us in our mission to provide the highest quality healthcare with compassionate and accessible service for all.

We offer a competitive benefits package including Medical, Dental, Paid Vacation, Sick Leave, 12 Paid Holidays, Life Insurance, Flexible Spending Account, Continuing Education, Employee Assistant Program, Productivity Bonus, and more!

The schedule for this position is Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

We are looking for a Dentist to join our clinics! Our Dentists are responsible for performing dental treatments for patients plus instructing and teaching patients preventive care and after care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO:

Consistently perform within the guidelines of and meet all relevant requirements set forth in the Dental Policy published by the Department of Health and Human Services (DSHS) and enforced by the Public Health Service PHS) administration of Region X.
Regularly perform a full-range of professional dental services, including: oral and radiographic examination, diagnosis of oral pathology, restoration of cavities, administering local anesthesia, relatively uncomplicated multiple teeth extraction, pulp canal therapy, treating mouth and gum infections, recognizing systemic disease and referring these cases for medical diagnosis and occasional difficult oral surgery. Crown and bridge prosthesis and full denture fabrication will be performed on a limited basis as time and funds allow.
Appropriately consult with dental specialists in managing complex oral surgical and prosthetic cases, providing postoperative or follow-up care when necessary, and adequately documenting all referrals and treatment in patients chart.
Regularly prescribe and/or dispense appropriate medications to patients.
Treat successfully a patient population which contains people who present actual or potential behavioral problems that require skills in patient handling.
Very effectively direct, supervise and review the assigned dental staff including dental assistants, hygienists and dental custodian.
Consistently maintain clinic patient charts in an appropriate, timely, and complete manner such that dental chart audits can be performed.
Participate in the development and implementation of a quality improvement program, including the electronic dental record, protocols for the dental management of identified oral health problems, an internal dental audit mechanism.
Participate in the development or review of the Dental Policy governing the operation of the clinic.
Participate in the development and uses of the system by the clinic generate patient utilization data for purposes of program evaluation and reporting to PHS.
In the absence of the Director, oversee all aspect of the physical operation of the clinic.
Participate in regularly scheduled quality assurance reviews, as outlined in the Dental Policy of the clinic.
Participate in a system of clinical practice/patient care evaluation, including assessments of the quality of inpatient and ambulatory health care services and/or internal practice audits.
Take measures to correct his/her deficiencies found as a result of quality assurance reviews.
Participate in developing and implementing systems to meet facility wide deficiencies found as a result of quality assurance reviews.
Participate in developing and implementing educational session for staff to correct deficiencies found as a result of quality assurance reviews.
Provide translation when capable and able
Attend clinic, Support Staff and All Staff meetings
Participate in quality improvement projects as assigned
Work as a team with other staff for continuity and efficient, quality care.
Requires adherence to all policies, standards and procedures included in the Admin, Clinical and HR Manuals and the agency Code of Conduct.
Perform other duties as assigned.

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $170,881.00 - $208,303.00 per year

Benefits:

401(k)
401(k) matching
Dental insurance
Employee assistance program
Flexible spending account
Health insurance
Life insurance
Paid time off
Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

The schedule for this position is Wednesday through Saturday are you willing to work this schedule?

License/Certification:

Dental License (Required)

Work Location: In person

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