General Information

Job Title: Dental Director

Date Posted: 03/15/2023

Location: Dental

Compensation and Hours

Minimum Salary: DOE

Maximum Salary: DOE

Type of Job: Full Time

Hours per Week: 40

Benefits: Health/Dental/Vision/401K

Anticipated Job Duration: None Selected

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Job Description

Indian Preference: Consistent with Public Law 93-638 and other federal laws recognizing the inherent right of the Tribe to exercise Indian Preference.

Purpose

Ketchikan Indian Community (KIC) job descriptions are a management tool to help organize duties and provide employees with the employer’s expectations with regard to a specific job classification. The duties listed are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is a reasonable assignment for the position. This job description is not an employment agreement or contract. Management has the exclusive right to alter this job description at any time without notice.

Job Summary

The Dental Director provides direct acute primary oral health care services including diagnosis, treatment, referral, and follow-up to eligible Indian and Alaska Native beneficiaries.

Incumbent will provide supervision and direction to dental staff. In conjunction with the KIC Health Administrator, determines the most appropriate range and depth of dental programs ensuring strict compliance with AAAHC standards and federal regulations. Approximately 25% of work schedule will be available for administrative duties.

ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS

Personnel Management

Directs personnel management for consistency in the programs and services of the KIC Dental Department. Monitors and approves staff development and training standards. Ensures the personnel policies are followed, interprets policy and monitors personnel actions for adherence to Tribal policy. Monitors staff evaluations process and annual employee safety programs. Ensure adhere to local, state or federal standards for employee training, specifically, HIPAA compliance, safety, workplace violence, and preventing sexual harassment.

• Recruits, selects, orientates, trains, coaches, counsels, and disciplines the department staff;

• Recommends all hiring, promotions, salary increases, merit increases, transfers, discipline and removal of all department employees per Tribal personnel policy to the Health Director.

Financial Oversight

Monitors and enforces internal financial policies and procedures regarding the Dental Department budget. Coordinates with Health Director in the preparation of the annual budget. Complies with federal regulations outlined in the self-governance compacts, and other state and federal funding sources.

Administers the approved department operating budget by monitoring expenditures and recommending justifiable changes to the Health Director.

Maintains AAAHC Accreditation Standards By:

• Recognizing and supporting the basic human rights of patients;

• Acknowleding the governing body that sets policy;

• Assuring the provision of high quality health care services that fulfills the Tribe’s mission, goals, and objectives;

• Providng high quality health care services in accordance with the principles of professional practice and ethical conduct, and with concern for the costs of care and for improving the community’s health status;

• Striving to improve the quality of care and to promote more effective and efficient utiliziation of facilities and services;

• Maintaining a clinical records and health information system from which information can be retrieved promptly;

• Striving to improve the professional competence and skill, as well as the quality of performance, of the health health care professionals and other professional personnel it employs;

• Providing a functionally safe and sanitary enviroment for its patients, personnel, and visitors.

KICTHC Dental Department Policy System

Responsible for establishing and maintaining KICTHC Dental Department and administrative policies. Ensures policies are in compliance with accreditation standards and state, federal, funding laws, and regulations. Develops policies as needed for programs and services. Monitors the policy review process and interprets policy and procedures for efficient operations. Attends the Policy Committee of the Tribal Council when KICTHC Dental policies are being reviewed.

Initiates, coordinates, and enforces program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures with ethical business practices.

KICTHC Dental Service Equipment

Inspects and evaluates the physical condition of the patient care area, recommending necessary changes to Maintenance to improve sanitation, appearance, and efficiency. Develops operations, quality, and troubleshooting procedures. Arranges Bio-medical instrument performance certification and equipment replacement, service, and repair as necessary.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

Complete preliminary examination, review patients’ medical and dental histories, examine the teeth and periodontium for evidence of plaque and periodontal disease, interpreting radiographic studies, and develops treatment plan for optimal oral health. Records all findings in patient dental record.

Perform professional dental duties in connection with the treatment of commonly encountered dental disease or dental health problems requiring standard corrective, restorative or preventive measures, including Operative Dentistry, Oral Diagnosis, Periodontics, Oral Surgery, Pedodontics, Endodontics, Fixed and/or Removable Prosthodontics, Orthodontics Oral Medicine, Operative Dentistry, and Dental Prevention.

Fabricates temporary restorations, clean and polish removable appliances, place, carve, and finish restorations, and removes cement from crowns and bridges to maintains patient esthetics and function.

Prepare patient treatment plans, including problem assessment and required oral hygiene care, as well as nutrition assessment and counseling and restorative and rehabilitative care possible with available resources. Recognize and refer patients for specialty treatment as required.

ESSENTAIL JOB FUNCTIONS (Cont.)

Educates patients in the nature of their oral health conditions and recommends therapies as well as the general promotion of oral health and disease prevention. Gives postoperative instructions and prescription medication notice as needed.

Provides emotional and psychological support to patients, friends and families throughout entire process.

Additional Job Duties:

• Maintains Dental Guidelines by writing and updating policies and procedures;

• Being accessible to staff for consultation as needed;

• Maintain partnership with other dental organizations at local, state, and national level;

• Recognize, identify, and resolve problems and issues without direct supervision;

• Prepare monthly report to supervisor

• Provide instruction to other employees of this or similar job classification in all aspects of procedure and technique relating to the duties required by this job description unless such instruction requires a specialized certification which the employee doing the training does not have;

• Perform other related duties as directed by supervisor.

KIC COMPETENCIES

Cultural Competency: To be respectful and responsive to the health beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of KIC Tribal Members. Developing cultural competence is an evolving, dynamic process that takes time and occurs along a continuum.

Commitment: To serve Tribal Members and set a high standard for yourself in your performance; strive for results and success; convey a sense of urgency and bring issues to closure; and stay persistent despite obstacles and opposition.

Customer Service: Meet/exceed the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; identify, understand, and monitor the needs of both internal and external customers, always talk and act with customers in mind; and recognize working colleagues as customers.

Effective Communication: Ensure important information is passed to those who need to know; convey necessary information with respect, clearly and effectively orally or in writing

Responsiveness and Accountability: Demonstrate a high level of conscientiousness; hold oneself personally responsible for one's own work; and do the required fair share of work.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge to gather, organize, and analyze information for dental operations and personnel;

• Knowledge of AAAHC Accreditation requirements;

• Knowledge and ability to carry out rules of Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which protects patient rights;

• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and electronic patient software application skills;

• Skills in conceptual thinking and orderly planning in the diagnosis treatment of patients;

• Ability to exercise mature judgment in working with patients to allow for good communications and dentist-patient relationships;

• Ability to work effectively with dentists, hygienists, and dental assistant staff;

• Ability to perform consistently from day to day and under unusual stress;

• Ability to analyze complex situations efficiently;

• Ability to express oneself clearly and succinctly through oral and written communication skills;

• Ability to gather, assemble, and analyze facts, draw conclusions and devise solutions to management problems;

• Ability to communicate professionally over the telephone and in person in a positive and clear manner;

• Ability to manage simultaneously multiple tasks, including telephone, computer operations and in-person visits;

• Ability to be flexible in order to perform at the highest level as a team player;

• Ability to utilize maximum degree of professionalism and diplomacy with those who may be experiencing a high degree of stress both mentally and/or physically;

• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and able to prioritize assignments.

Physical Activities

Must be able to hear. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Ability to use hands to finger, handle, or operate objects tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch; and taste or smell. Each of the listed activities also requires standing, sitting, walking, bending, and stooping, climbing on stools and ladders, and routinely being required to lift, pull, push, and manipulate equipment and patients.

Writing by hand and using a personal computer. Long hours in front of computer screen. Frequently required to work extended hours. Attending evening and lunch time meetings as requested by supervisor. Traveling occasionally, using air and/or water transportation, to out-of-town meetings and functions

Working Environment

Work involves danger of exposure to radiation, communicable disease, and flying debris. Incumbent must wear protective devices such as lead shields to protect against radiation, facemasks, and surgical gloves to protect from communicable disease and safety glasses to protect from flying debris.

Safety precautions for employees such as blood drawing for screening of various diseases such as hepatitis, required immunizations, etc. are necessary. The employee is occasionally subject to verbal abuse, threats, and physical violence from angry, hostile, or disgruntled patients and/or family members

License(s)

Incumbent must be licensed to practice dentistry in any of the fifty (50) U.S. states, the District of Columbia or Puerto Rico. For direct Tribal hire, employee must have a permanent, full and unrestricted State of Alaska professional Dentist license.

Possess current valid State of Alaska driver's license with a record acceptable to KIC’s Insurance carrier.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Degree in dental surgery (DDS) or dental medicine (DMD) from an accredited dental school required. Additional requirements include:

• Approved internship; approved residency – Training in a hospital dental internship or residency approved by the Council on Dental Education on the American Dental Association;

• Graduate-level study – Either dental graduate study leading to an advanced degree such as Master of Science or postgraduate (non-degree) dental school study involving a level of instruction comparable to that provided in a graduate degree program;

• National Certifying Board – A examining board in a special area of dental practice recognized by the Council on Dental Education of the American Dental Association;

• Board Eligibility - Qualification for examination by a national certifying board as a result of having met the advanced training program requirements for a dental specialty.

Experience

Progressive responsible administrative/management work that indicates ability to acquire the particular knowledge and skills needed to perform duties of this position. Minimum five (5) years supervisory experience.

Any combination of related education and/or related experience will be considered if the candidate posses the demonstrated ability.

Required Job Qualifications

Are you 18 years or older

1 Can you pass a drug test?

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