| Title: | Dental Director |
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| ID: | 43506 |
| Department Location: | N/A |
| Category: | Providers |
Taking Health Care to New Heights
Peak Vista Community Health Centers provides exceptional healthcare to people facing access barriers.
We are a private nonprofit dedicated to premier medical, dental and behavioral health services for people of all ages. We provide primary care services to residents of the Pikes Peak and Eastern Plains Regions through 25 outpatient health centers and are accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care, Inc. (AAAHC).
Job Summary (Essential Functions)Dentist will provide general dental services in an ambulatory clinical setting to patients of all ages, consistent with the needs of PVCHC patients. Dental Health services shall be performed in accordance with reasonable dental standards of care as promulgated or established by PVCHC, the Colorado Dental Association, and applicable Colorado statutes and regulations. Travel to alternate dental clinic sites may be required.
In addition to their contractual duties, the Dental Director provides direct oversight of Center’s licensed provider staff while working in partnership with Center’s Director of Dental Operations to jointly manage their Center to be a semi-autonomous health care center delivering accessible, high quality, cost effective health care services through the following tasks and responsibilities:
Team Management
- Team onboarding, development and training: Assures team competencies; assures certification and trainings are up to date; through interdepartmental communication, initiates the hiring, orientation, and training processes for new and existing team members (to include providers, clinical and support team members); Ongoing coaching and development focused on team-based care.
- Timely Evaluations
- Promotes interdepartmental collaboration, coordination and integration
- Bi-directional corporate and team communication
- On-site Meetings: will provide direction for, oversight of and follow up to: Bi-Monthly Team Meetings, Trainings, Clinical Advisory Meetings (CAC), Leadership Meetings, Team Huddles and CAC -- Credentials Meetings.
Patient/Population Management
- Continual support for the corporate Mission and values through: Maintaining measures centered upon Patient Access, Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) focus, Manages and maintains team schedules to support patient access during posted hours of operation, Care Coordination and Contracts / Obligations.
- Patient Experience: Management of patient complaints, dismissals, narcotic issues in collaboration with providers and care teams; Panel Management / PCP assignment / attribution; Patient advocacy / Exemplary Customer Service; Engagement and follow up with patient surveys and feedback; Trending and team coaching/accountability; Patient letters / calls; Comment Cards and CAHPS
- Community Involvement:
- Represents PVCHC and communicates its philosophy and mission at community functions
- Hosts and coordinates visits for visitors, politicians or other people coming to the clinic
Quality Management:
- Maintenance of clinical scope and practices
- Operates within Board approved hours of operations
- Policies and procedures: Assist as requested in the development of policies and procedures related to operational issues and ensure compliance with all policies and procedures.
- Patient and Team Safety: Assure safe and well maintained facilities and that signage is clear, up-to-date and professional. Responsible to coordinate with the PVCHC system the implementation and assessment of adherence to all regulations and compliance standards (OSHA, CLIA, AAHC, Medicare and Medicaid, etc)
- Continuous Quality improvement (CQI): Run quality reports, analyze the data and implements a quality improvement process to improve measures. Monitors and seeks to improve measures in compliance with all expected performance measures (to include but not limited):
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- AAAHC
- HRSA
- CMS
- Medicare/Medicaid
- UDS Quality Goals
- KPI
- Internal clinic benchmarks
- ACO Quality Goals
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Productivity and Revenues:
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Manage provider productivity standards (as established in Annual Encounter Expectation documents); develops annual encounter expectations for the clinic; give providers their productivity data at least monthly; explores alternative opportunities to meet standards; operates within allotted expense budget(s)
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Adheres to corporate pay structures and staff grading expectations; closely monitors and manages financial practices of the clinic(s)
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Exemplifies and leads team toward corporate stewardship expectations; manages and supports grant related measures and performance/reporting expectations
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Complies with Peak Vista Contract management processes and policies; completes budget variance reports
Performs other duties as assigned
Supports Chief Medical and Dental Officer and V.P. Medical/Dental wherever possible in matters not specifically outlined here
Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Graduated from an accredited university as a Doctor in Dental Surgery or Doctor of Dental Medicine. Additional post dental school education desirable (AEGD or GPR.)Must be licensed to practice in Colorado.
*Successful candidates will need to complete pre-employment screening; which includes, but is not limited to a Criminal Background check.
