What are the responsibilities and job description for the Dentist position at Heart City Health?
Our Mission:
Heart City Health is a premier healthcare network providing access to high quality preventive and primary care for our community.
Position Summary:
The dentist treats problems related to the mouth, teeth, gums, and jaws at Heart City Health Center (HCHC).
Essential Functions:
- Provides and oversees direct dental diagnosis, treatment, procedures, and care for a specified patient population
- Prescribes pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens as appropriate to assessed medical conditions
- Refers patients to specialists and to relevant patient care components as appropriate
- Follows established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous quality improvement objectives, and safety, environmental, and/or infection control standards as appropriate to the position
- Participates in specified health promotion, education and /or prevention programs
- Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned
- Advises patients on oral hygiene
- Other duties as assigned
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Excellent communication skills; active listening as well as written and oral comprehension/communication skills; Bilingual (Spanish/English) language skills helpful
- Excellent customer service skills; actively seeks ways to assist internal and external customers within the scope of assigned duties
- Good basic mathematical skills; uses a calculator or other means to accurately figure all transactions
- Good computer skills; Outlook, Windows, Microsoft Office applications; Dentrix exposure preferred
- Good time management skills; self evaluates the use of time and understands how others may be affected
- Cultural diversity awareness and skills; respects all people regardless of race, nationality or social standing
- Ability to work independently (self motivating) and as a team member
- Ability to develop a collaborative therapeutic alliance with individuals and make accurate professional judgments
- Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with co-workers, providers, managers, patients and vendors
- Problem sensitivity skills; empathetic/understanding
- Deductive reasoning and problem-solving skills
- Organized and detail oriented
Education, Experience and Licensure:
- Doctorate degree in Dental Surgery or Dental Medicine required
- Current and valid license to practice dentistry required
