Staff Dentist

Job description

Description Full and Part-Time Positions Available POSITION SUMMARY: A full time or part time, exempt position responsible for providing preventive and primary dental care consistent with the dentist’s training and experience in a community health center setting to patients of the center. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Reasonable Accommodations Statement: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reason3able Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Essential Functions: - Examines individuals requesting care, diagnoses of dental conditions, prescribes and carries out, or directs others in carrying out, appropriate dental treatment, or refers individuals for specialty consultation or treatment in conformance with approved clinical protocols and guidelines. - Records patient-dentist transactions as they occur in the patient’s dental record so that the dental record accurately and completely reflects the nature of the contact, the condition of the patient and the care or treatment provided. In addition, the dentist shall complete patient referrals and other re...