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Dentist (Department Head)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 2 days ago
About the Role
This position is located at Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (FHCC), North Chicago, IL. This center is the first fully integrated federal health care facility combining Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of War (DOW), specifically the United States Navy (USN), under one command. The Dental Department Head is the primary subject matter expert to FHCC Dental leadership on all oral health care matters pertaining to the beneficiaries at the FHCC Hospital Dental Department.
What You'll Do
- →The Dental Department Head is the primary subject matter expert to FHCC Dental leadership on all oral health care matters pertaining to the beneficiaries at the FHCC Hospital Dental Department.
- →This position is responsible for planning, organizing, leading, and controlling the operations of the FHCC Hospital Dental Services.
- →Duties include but not limited to: Ensuring dental staff provide appropriate dental care to promote, preserve, and restore the oral health of Veterans.
- →Upholding standards for the correct documentation and coding of completed dental procedures.
- →Reviewing dental provider panels and clinical productivity goals/expectations and manage them accordingly.
- →Monitoring, reviewing, and implementing plans to improve dental service performance on the Office of Dentistry Dental Quality Indicators.
- →Ensuring the dental service follows FHCC policies.
- →Ensuring FHCC medical facility-level dental service operational procedures and SOPs are consistent with national policies and guidelines.
- →Enforcing personnel policies, ethical standards, and performance standards; and promoting the VA Core Values of Integrity, Commitment, Advocacy, Respect, and Excellence.
- →Ensuring all staff under their supervision have an appropriate functional statement or position description.
- →Collaborating with the VISN Lead Dentist to ensure implementation of VHA national policy and VISN policy at the FHCC medical facility.
- →Providing regular dental service briefings to FHCC Dental Directorate leadership on all matters affecting the delivery of Veteran dental care.
- →Carrying out fiscal and budgetary planning activities.
- →Assisting the FHCC Dental Associate Director in following recommendations set by the VA Office of Inspector General, the Joint Commission, and other survey bodies.
Requirements
- ✓All qualified candidates encouraged to apply.
- ✓Open to U.S.
- ✓Citizens but non-citizens may be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens.
- ✓All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment.
- ✓Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓You may be required to serve a probationary period.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 62b7b5e9-4895-4cb5-8518-4de5485de20b
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