Dentist (Department Head)

Job Title

Dental Department Head

Duties

The Dental Department Head is the primary subject matter expert to FHCC Dental leadership on all oral health care matters pertaining to the beneficiaries at the FHCC Hospital Dental Department. This position is responsible for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the operations of the FHCC Hospital Dental Services. Duties include but not limited to:

• Ensuring dental staff provide appropriate dental care to promote, preserve, and restore the oral health of Veterans.
• Upholding standards for the correct documentation and coding of completed dental procedures.
• Reviewing dental provider panels and clinical productivity goals/expectations and manage them accordingly.
• Monitoring, reviewing, and implementing plans to improve dental service performance on the Office of Dentistry Dental Quality Indicators.
• Ensuring the dental service follows FHCC policies.
• Ensuring FHCC medical facility-level dental service operational procedures and SOPs are consistent with national policies and guidelines.
• Enforcing personnel policies, ethical standards, and performance standards; and promoting the VA Core Values of Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence.
• Ensuring all staff under their supervision have an appropriate functional statement or position description.
• Collaborating with the VISN Lead Dentist to ensure implementation of VHA national policy and VISN policy at the FHCC medical facility.
• Providing regular dental service briefings to FHCC Dental Directorate leadership on all matters affecting the delivery of Veteran dental care.
• Carrying out fiscal and budgetary planning activities.
• Assisting the FHCC Dental Associate Director in following recommendations set by the VA Office of Inspector General, the Joint Commission, and other survey bodies.
• Ensuring all Dental beneficiaries treated at the FHCC Hospital Dental Department are eligible for care based on VA/DOW guidelines.
• Maintaining clinical practice within their specialty or General Dentistry at 50% capacity.

Work Schedule: Monday to Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm

Telework: Not Available

Virtual: This is not a virtual position. VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.