General Dentist

General Dentist

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Job Category: Clinical Dental

Job Description:

Education, Licensure: Board certification in Dentistry, current License in Montana in good standing, and current certification in BLS.

Experience: Experience with medically underserved populations and public health. Experience with Electronic Dental Records required. Two years post-graduate experience highly preferred.

Essential Functions, Roles, and Responsibilities:

• Provides basic and emergency direct patient care to dental patients of SWMTCHC.
• Assures quality dental services including, but not limited to, dental screenings, diagnosis, and basic restorative dentistry.
• Remains current with standards of practice.
• Ensures that accurate dental records of patient visits are maintained.
• Participates in annual dental care plan goals and objectives.
• Participates in review and determination of dental clinic scope of service.
• Supervises, in conjunction with the Dental Director, dental assistants, dental scheduler, and dental hygienists.
• Coordinates services with clinic and community providers to ensure delivery of comprehensive dental care services.
• Coordinates with SMTMCHCs and the community's providers to ensure delivery of integrated multidisciplinary comprehensive primary care services.
• Participates in SWMTCHC's continuous quality improvement and performance review programs.
• Assists with the SWMTCHC'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.
• Participates in the development of policy and procedure manuals used in the dental clinic.
• Participates in the recruitment of volunteers and staff for a dental clinic.
• Participates in communication with volunteer dentists in the SWMTCHC dental program.
• Serves as one of the key links with the Butte and Southwestern Montana dental community.
• Complies with SWMTCHC's policies and procedures.
• Participates in SWMTCHC staff meetings and clinic meetings as directed.
• Uses a computer and related software.
• Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Site with Opening: Southwest Montana Community Health Center Butte, MT

Hiring Organization: Southwest Montana Community Health Center