The Cincinnati, OH VA Medical Center is seeking a highly qualified Dentist to function as the Chief of Dental Service. The Chief of Dental Service is responsible for the overall leadership of the department and holds accountability for the management of Dental service. Work Schedule: Monday through Friday Daytime hours with 24/7 responsibilities. However, must be available to meets the needs of the department and medical center.

Duties

The Dental Chief is the primary subject matter expert to the medical center leadership on all oral health care matters. The Dental Service Chief is responsible for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the operation of the dental service. The Chief, Dental Service 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. Provides the administration of the Dental Service in compliance with applicable VHA, VISN, Medical Center and Dental Service Handbooks, Directives, Policies and Procedures. The duties, roles, and responsibilities of this position include but are not limited to the following: Ensuring dental staff provides appropriate dental care to promote, preserve and restore the oral health of Veterans according to generally accepted standards of dental care and scope of services based on statutory eligibility. Rendering or assigning designee to render decisions on all Class III and Class VI eligibility determinations when the oral condition is aggravating a treated medical condition. Directing and confirming the use of the Electronic Dental Record for entry of diagnostic findings, dental care plans and completed procedures for all patients. Upholding standards for the correct documentation and coding of completed dental procedures. Reviewing dental provider panels and clinical productivity goals/expectations and managing them accordingly. Monitoring, reviewing, and implementing plans to improve dental service performance on the Office of Dentistry Dental Quality Indicators. Ensuring dental laboratory case submission requirements are met. Ensuring all prostheses are fabricated in the United States of America using materials approved by the Food and Drug Administration if commercial laboratory services are used. Ensuring the dental service follows VHA polices. Ensuring dental service compliance with the Office of Dentistry Infection Control standards for VA Dental Clinics. Ensuring dental service operational procedures and SOP's are consistent with national policies and guidelines. Enforcing personnel policies, ethical standards, and performance standards and promote the VA core values of Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect and Excellence. Ensuring all dental staff have an appropriate functional statements. Collaborating with VISN 10 Lead Dentist to ensure implementation of the VHA national policy and VISN 10 policy at the VA Medical Center. Provide regular dental service briefings to VA Medical Center facility leadership on all matters affecting delivery of dental care. Serves as the VA medical facility liaison to external dental professional organizations as well as departments within the medical center and other government agencies. Participates in the development and review of relevant sharing agreements, service agreements and inter-facility medical facility agreements. Manages the fiscal and budgetary planning activities in collaboration with Fiscal Services. Manages the affiliation with the University OMFS residency program in collaboration with the medical center designated Education Officer. Ensuring compliance with relevant VHA, Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Joint Commission standards. Assisting the VA medical facility Director in following recommendations set forth by the VA Office of the Inspector General, the Joint commission, and other survey bodies. Ensuring prompt response to assigned Congressional, White House and Inspector General dental service inquiries. Collaborating with the Office of Community Care to administer dental services provided through community care. These responsibilities include determining the eligibility of Veterans for community care, determining if the dental care recommended by the community providers is needed to promote, preserve or restore to oral health of the Veteran and is in accordance with generally acceptable standards of dental practice by reviewing for the clinical appropriateness of care provided through community care. The Dental Chief reports to the Medical Center Chief of Staff.

Requirements

Qualifications

Basic Requirements: United States Citizenship: Education: Degree of doctor of dental surgery or dental medicine resulting from a course of education in dentistry. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved schools are: (1) United States and Canadian schools of dentistry listed by the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA), in the list published for the year in which the course of study was completed. (2) Schools (including foreign schools) accepted by the licensing body of a State, Territory, or Commonwealth (i.e., Puerto Rico), or the District of Columbia as qualifying for full and unrestricted licensure provided the licensure requirements include a written examination measuring science achievement and a performance examination measuring clinical competence. Residency: Completion of an approved residency program in general practice or specialty, or comparable experience as a dentist actively involved in treating medically compromised patients. License: Current, full, and unrestricted license to practice dentistry in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States (i.e., Puerto Rico), or in the District of Columbia. The dentist must maintain current registration in the State of licensure if this is a requirement for continuing active, current licensure.. English Language Proficiency. Must be proficient in spoken and written English as required by 38 U.S.C. 7402(d) and 7407(d). Physical requirements: outlined below. A dentist in the role of Service Chief should possess the following: Must demonstrate outstanding professional ability in the practice of dentistry or a dental specialty, and healthcare administration, as well as the ability to guide the development and implementation of programs within their respective domain. These would include, but are not limited to dental practice, professional standards, personnel issues, quality and performance improvement. Must demonstrate effectiveness coordinating and managing interdisciplinary collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders to optimize the care of patients under their purview. Preferred Qualifications / Experience: Prior supervisory experience Experienced in consult management Knowledgeable of High Reliability Organization principles and processes Reference: VA Regulations, specifically VA Handbook 5005, Part II, Appendix G-3 Dentist Qualification Standard. This can be found in the local Human Resources Office. Physical Requirements: Per VA Directive and Handbook 5019 - a physical examination will be conducted based on the physical requirements of the position. A physical examination prior to placement is required. Physician applicants must have the mental and physical ability to perform core privileges required by the specialty position in addition to any specialty privileges requested. Position requires walking, bending, stooping, light lifting (under 15 pounds), light carrying (under 15 pounds), reaching above shoulder, use of fingers, both hands required, both legs required, walking (2 hours), standing (2 hours), ability for rapid mental and muscular coordination simultaneously, both eyes required, near vision correctable at 13" to 16" to Jaeger 1 to 4, far vision correctable in one eye to 20/20 and to 20/40 in the other, depth perception, ability to distinguish basic colors, ability to distinguish shades of colors, Hearing (aid may be permitted), working alone, working closely with others, and protracted or irregular hours of work. Light carrying, under 15 pounds; reaching above shoulder; use of fingers; both hands required; both eyes required; depth perception; ability to distinguish basic colors; ability to distinguish shades of colors; hearing (aid permitted); mental and emotional stability. See VA Handbook and Directive 5019.

Education

1. Schools of medicine accredited by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) for the year in which the degree was granted, or
2. Schools of osteopathic medicine approved by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation of the American Osteopathic Association for the year in which the degree was granted.
3. For foreign medical graduates not covered in (1) or (2) above, facility officials must verify with the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) that the applicant has met requirements for certification, and must obtain a copy of the ECFMG certificate, if claimed by the applicant. [If the applicant does not claim an ECFMG certificate, facility officials must still confirm that the medical school meets (or met) ECFMG eligibility requirements for the year the candidate graduated.]

Contacts

• Address Cincinnati VA Medical Center 3200 Vine Street Cincinnati, OH 45220 US
• Name: Rhonda McCubbin
• Email: [email protected]