Staff Dentist - Northern NH Correctional Facility

Staff Dentist

Location: Northern New Hampshire Correctional Facility in Berlin, NH

Job Description:

• The Staff Dentist, licensed in the state of New Hampshire, is responsible and accountable for providing oral health care to patients such as fillings, extractions, dentures, root canals, etc., and for supervising the dental staff and managing the dental activity within the facility.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Provides preventive and restorative treatment to all inmates.
• Performs and interprets radiographic examinations as indicated.
• Performs all general dentistry services including, but not limited to restorative, surgical, periodontal, endodontic, and prosthodontic services as described by facility policy.
• Provides overall supervision of the dental department, including hiring, coaching, counseling, administering discipline, and termination of subordinate staff as needed.
• Supervises staff in cleaning of teeth, making impressions for prosthetic devices, planning and maintaining an oral hygiene program, completing appropriate records accurately, and all procedures associated with the provision of dental care.
• Arranges proper referral for procedures that cannot be performed on-site at the facility.
• Provides supervision of staff in instruction of inmates in preventive practices for maintaining proper oral hygiene.
• Submits monthly report of Dental Department activities.
• Participates in staff development programs.
• Develops and updates departmental policies and procedures.
• Supervises and evaluates all assigned dental staff.
• Forwards all outside referrals of offenders to the Chief Dental Officer to assure the necessity for such referrals.
• Serves as clinical authority on all matters related to the delivery of dental services, and provides direction, guidance, and oversight to the dental staff and programs.
• Determines the timeframes for non-emergent and elective treatments according to priority and availability.
• Determines the appropriateness of non-routine treatment and ensures that such treatment will not interfere with the provision of greater priority services.
• Examines patients and documents findings on standard forms, utilizing applicable dental classification systems (i.e., APHA).
• Ensures continuity of care.
• Supplies data for clinic reports as requested.
• Keeps dental licenses up-to-date, and ensures a current copy is on file in the Health Care Unit.
• Responsible for dental office security to include instrument, medicine, and needle counts.
• Ensures appropriate and quality orientation for all newly hired dental staff.
• Is familiar with overtime and commodities budgets and works to remain within budget.
• Complies with and enforces Wexford Health/facility policy and procedures and ensures subordinate compliance.
• Member of the Quality Assurance Committee.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, see, stand, walk, and sit, use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, instruments, or controls, reach with hands and arms, stoop or crouch, balance and kneel. May be required to lift and/or move persons, carts, emergency equipment, or other objects.
• Must be able to ambulate throughout the facility for extended periods of time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distant vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to clearly communicate orally and via written and typed correspondence and notes using various forms, records, charts, and electronic media.

Environmental Conditions:

• Standard medical setting in a correctional facility, which includes daily interfacing with inmates, correctional staff, and health care personnel.
• Temperature extremes may be encountered while moving throughout the facility outdoors and indoors in buildings without air conditioning.

Requirements:

• Current New Hampshire Dental license and current DEA license.