Dentist

Job Summary :

This position is responsible for providing professional dental care to Oyáte Health Center (OHC) patients by diagnosing and treating diseases, injuries, and malformations of teeth and gums, and related oral structures. Ensures the delivery of quality services to the patients of OHC.

Essential Functions :

• Evaluates patient condition using clinical examination and radiographs.
• Performs prophylaxis and provides preventive dental services to the patient such as applications of fluoride and sealants to teeth.
• Fills cavities and places crowns if necessary.
• Administers local anesthetic as needed for patient comfort.
• Performs root canal therapy.
• Performs periodontal therapy including scaling, curettage, and surgical procedures.
• Performs oral surgery including extractions, alveolectomy, biopsy, and other procedures as needed.
• Designs and fabricates fixed and removable dentures to replace missing teeth.
• Educates patients in oral hygiene and home care.
• Maintains current knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations affecting areas of responsibility. Understands and complies with infection control, safety and OSHA procedures and regulations.
• Maintain effective, collaborative interdepartmental and external relations.
• Actively participates in clinic quality improvement activities.
• Participate in meetings and represent OHC as required.
• Utilization of EHR with accurate timely notes to ensure required documentation is entered for billing and referrals.
• Must comply with federal laws and regulations as required by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).
• Performs related duties.

Professional Behavior

Requirements

Knowledge Requirements

Supervisory Controls

The supervisor gives technical guidance and assistance. Work is performed independently and is reviewed for overall efficiency and adequacy of patient outcomes.

Guidelines

Guidelines include state and federal laws and regulations, GPTLHB and OHC policies and procedures, OHC Medical Staff Bylaws, professional standards of dental practice, and Centers or Medicare and Medicaid Services Conditions of Participation manual. These guidelines are not applicable to every situation encountered and require independent judgment, selection, and interpretation in application.

Complexity / Scope of Work

This position consists of patient care duties. The purpose of this position is to deliver the highest quality dental care to OHC patients. Successful performance helps ensure the overall effective and efficient provision of patient care resulting in improved patient outcomes.

Contacts

Contacts are typically with clinical providers, patients, employees, and the general public. Contacts are typically to exchanging and provide factual medical information and provide patient care.

Work Environment / Physical Demands

The work is typically performed standing or sitting. The work is typically performed in a clinic setting which requires normal safety precaution for infection control and environmental safety measures. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and sit, talk, and hear. Requires working with fingers rather than the whole hand or arm. Constantly requires repetitive movement of the wrists, hands and / or fingers. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or climb. The employee must regularly lift and / or move light objects, and occasional lift heavier objects. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Supervisory and Management Responsibility

This is a non-supervisory position that provides medical direction, guidance and instruction to other employees when necessary. This position possess authority to assign, coordinate, and review quality and quantity of work of other employees. Instructs employees in specific techniques or technical methods for accomplishing work assignments.

Minimum Qualifications

The GPTLHB is a tribal organization which follows tribal preference laws. It is our policy to give preference to qualified Indian / Tribal candidates over qualified non-native candidates in hiring decisions, if all other qualifications are equal.

Employment is contingent upon the outcome of all required criminal background checks.