Chief Dental Officer

Job Description

Job Description

PLEASE NOTE - This position may require temporarily relocation to other TONHC Fa cilities: Sells Hospital, Santa Rosa Health Center, San Simon Health Center, and San Xavier Health Center.

Position Summary:

Accomplishes the Dental Branch strategic goals and objectives and is responsible for the overall leadership and management of the Dental Department. Perform professional tasks, including assessing, planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating direct Dental services. In addition, provide clinical guidance, including patient treatment and consultation for dental diseases and health problems.

Scope of Work:

The position is located in the TONHC Hospital and Clinics and works under the clinical director's general supervision.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities: (Depending on the area of assignment, an incumbent may not be required to perform some of the duties listed below):

• Direct the development of strategic plans for dental branches of the Nation.
• The dental strategic plan directs the establishment, implementation, and communication of goals, objectives, policies, and procedures.
• Increases management's effectiveness by recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, counseling, and disciplining dental staff.
• Communicates values, strategies, and objectives; assigning accountabilities; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results; develops a climate for offering information and opinions.
• Provides and participates in educational and in-service opportunities.
• Contributes to departmental effectiveness by addressing and identifying short-term and long-range issues and goals, providing information and commentary pertinent to deliberations, recommending options and courses of action, implementing directives.
• Prepares and presents reports on the status, activities, and plans for current and future operations.
• Encourage a positive working relationship between departments and the communities within the Nation.
• Contributes to the organization's effectiveness by offering information and opinion as a medical executive team member, integrating objectives with other functions, and accomplishing related results as needed.
• Establish organization structure and guidelines, performance standards, and reporting requirements.
• Assures that all policies and procedures comply with professional guidelines, the Joint Commission standards, OSHA, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and other regulatory agencies.
• Develops and manages annual budgets for the department and performs periodic cost and productivity analyses.
• Host regular department meetings.
• Give special instruction on challenging or different activities and answer technical questions about work assignments.
• Provide dental services on an outpatient basis, including emergency, consultative, diagnostic, routine care, specialty care, preventive, and maintenance dental care.
• Provides patient examination, reviews, and interprets x-rays, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and consultation.
• Reviews patient documents to include all medications, diagnoses, treatments, and consultations.
• Interact with outside providers, facilities, and laboratories concerning patient cases.
• Implements comply and monitor safety rules and regulations to ensure a safe working environment.
• Maintain current working knowledge of trends in dentistry.
• Participate as a member on interdisciplinary committees and special projects and activities.
• Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending seminars, educational workshops, classes, and conferences; reviewing professional publications; establishing networks; participating in professional societies; conferring with representatives of contracting agencies and related organizations.
• Contributes to a team effort and accomplishes related results as required.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of the Tohono O'odham culture, customs, and traditions.
• Knowledge of current dental technology, terminology, dental anatomy, dental equipment, medicines, oral hygiene and preventive dentistry.
• Knowledge of applicable federal, state, county, and local laws, regulations, and requirements.
• Knowledge of dental software.
• Knowledge of HIPAA-related rules and regulations.
• Skill in treating patients with tact, courtesy, and respect.
• Skill in providing superior customer service to external and internal customers.
• Skill with reading results of dental x-rays and tests and communicating results clearly and accurately.
• Skill in preparing, reviewing, and analyzing operational and financial reports.
• Skill in supervising, training, and evaluating assigned staff.
• Ability to react quickly and make effective decisions in an emergency.
• Ability to use dental software.
• Ability to use dental diagnostic and manual skills.
• Ability to respect cultural and traditional Native American beliefs.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to interact and maintain good working relationships with individuals of varying social and cultural backgrounds.
• Ability to communicate efficiently and effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduate of a dental school accredited by the American Dental Association's (ADA's) Commission on Dental Accreditation.

• The current, full, and unrestricted license in any state of the U.S. or the District of Columbia.
• Advanced general practice residency in clinical and program administration preferred.
• CPR Certification.
• Validated record of continuing education and post-graduate study in various aspects of dentistry.
• Experience in a Native American community dental clinic preferred.
• Five years in a management capacity are preferred.
• Upon recommendation for hire, a criminal background and a National FBI fingerprint check are required to determine suitability for employment, including a 39-month driving record.
• May require possessing and maintaining a valid driver's license (no DUIs or major traffic citations within the last three years).
• If required, must meet the Tohono O'odham Nation tribal employer's insurance requirements to receive a driver's permit to operate program vehicles.
• Based on the department's needs, incumbents may be required to demonstrate fluency in both the Tohono O'odham language and English as a condition of employment.