Dental Director, Staff Dentist - UT Dentists, Harris Health System Dental Service
Qualifications:
- State-licensed dentist with significant experience in community-based dental clinic leadership and operations management.
- Proficient with EHR modules and reporting.
- Familiarity with quality improvement initiatives and development of clinical best practice guidelines and standard operating procedures
- Demonstrates effectiveness in leadership, resolution strategies, and peer reviews, and builds consensus in motivating performance.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and high degree of emotional intelligence.
- Proficiency and experience preparing meeting agendas, presentations, reports, and performing analysis of clinical data reports supporting defined quality and performance metrics using Microsoft 365 software.
Licensure and Credentials:
- Unrestricted license to practice dentistry in the State of Texas
- Current CPR (BLS) certification
- Valid DEA registration
Skills and Abilities:
- Comprehensive knowledge of evidence-based, person-centered dental care with a focus on disease prevention, quality, and value for the patient.
- Appreciation of the impact of the social determinants of health, the capacity to function successfully as part of a large team
Residency Requirement:
Employees must permanently reside and work in the State of Texas.
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth)
Established in 1972 by The University of Texas System Board of Regents, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) is Houston’s Health University and Texas’ resource for health care education, innovation, scientific discovery and excellence in patient care. The most comprehensive academic health center in the UT System and the U.S. Gulf Coast region, UTHealth Houston is home to schools of biomedical informatics, biomedical sciences, dentistry, nursing and public health and the John P. and Kathrine G. McGovern Medical School. UTHealth Houston includes The University of Texas Harris County Psychiatric Center, as well as the growing clinical practices UT Physicians, UT Dentists and UT Health Services. The university’s primary teaching hospitals are Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital and Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital.
UTHealth Benefits
UTHealth Houston offers a comprehensive and competitive benefits package. For more information on our benefits programs please refer to the UTHealth Houston Office of Benefits Website.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
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Work location is based on the needs of the department and may be adjusted.
