Dentist; Service Chief - Dental Service​/Authorized

Summary

The VA North Texas Health Care System (VANTHCS) in Dallas - Texas is seeking a dynamic dentist-executive to serve as the Chief of Dental Service. The Chief serves as a practicing dentist who performs a full range of professional dental procedures in connection with the treatment of commonly encountered dental diseases or dental health problems requiring standard corrective - restorative - or preventive measures.

• The Chief of the Dental Service directly or indirectly supervises the performance of staff privileged and/or working in Dental Service - The general practice dental officer serves as a practicing dentist who performs a full range of professional dental procedures in connection with the treatment of common encountered dental diseases or dental health problems requiring standard corrective - restorative or preventive measures
• While fulfilling his/her role - the Chief of the Dental Service also interacts with staff of other Service Chiefs and/or Assistant Chiefs of Dental Services at other VA' s - staff of the VA Office of Dentistry - with representatives of affiliated institutions - professional organizations - and veterans' groups - and with individual veterans
• FUNCTIONS OR SCOPES OF PRACTICE:
  The General Dentistry dental officer shall be proficient in all aspects of general dentistry including the ability to perform selected specialty services
• Specifically - the provider should possess the expertise and competency to perform the following:
  Assisting with the continuation of the Service into the primary functions of the Healthcare System
• Assisting with the coordination and integration of interdepartmental and intradepartmental services
• Establishing and sustaining policies and procedures that guide and support the provision of services
• Recommending a sufficient number of qualified and competent persons to provide care/services
• Determining the qualifications and competence of Service personnel who provide patient care services and who are not licensed independent practitioners
• Continuously assessing and improving the performance of care and services provided
• Maintaining quality control programs - as appropriate
• Orienting and providing in-service training and continuing education of all persons in the Service in collaboration with staff of other services
• Assists with recommending staffing - space - equipment and other resources needed by the Service Participating in the selection of sources for needed services not provided by the Service or Healthcare System
• Designating a person to act in his/her absence so that administrative direction is provided at all times
• Establishing and assists in implementing patient/resident care policies - personnel policies - and other policies of the Service and WTVAHCS
• Evaluating and implementing - as feasible - any recommendations from WTVAHCS committees and consultants
• Maintaining ongoing liaison with the governing body - with other clinical staff - and with administrative staff through regularly scheduled meetings and periodic reports
• Providing direct patient care consistent with his/her clinical privileges
• Make oral and radiographic examinations of the oral cavity
• Diagnose pathological or irregular oral conditions
• Administer local anesthesia
• Perform routine and complex restoration of teeth
• Perform simple and complex extractions of teeth
• Perform alveoloplasty and other routine surgical procedures
• Perform prosthetic dentistry to include immediate dentures - full dentures - partial dentures - crowns - and fixed bridge work
• Perform routine endodontic procedures on single and multi-canal teeth
• Perform routine and surgical periodontal procedures
• Responsible for clinic administration in compliance with VHA - Medical Center and Dental Services Directives - Policies and Procedures
• Providing guidance to staff in meeting assigned monitors:
  
  Work Schedule:
  
  Monday-Friday -  CST with occasional weekend and after hours work - as needed Telework:
  Available on an Ad-hoc (as needed) basis Virtual:
  This is not a virtual position
• Relocation/Recruitment
  
  Incentives:
  
  May be authorized for highly-qualified individual Permanent Change of Station (PCS):
  Not Authorized VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package.