Pediatric Dentist Associate - Under The Sea Children's Dentistry - Converse - Mexia, TX

Permanent Dentist Job

Mexia, TX

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Job Title: Pediatric Dentist Associate
Location: Converse, TX 78109
Employment Type: Full-time (4-3 days per week, negotiable) no long hours, no weekends, no on call.
Salary based on production for all procedures due under supervision of the Pediatric Dentist patients (including X-rays, Sealants, Coronal Polishing done by RDA's)

Job Overview:
Join our team at Under The Sea Children's Dentistry, where you'll play a vital role in delivering high-quality dental care to our pediatric patients. Reporting directly to our Lead Dentist, you'll be responsible for providing exceptional clinical services and ensuring a positive patient experience in line with our mission and vision. Our team have no dramas and break lunch. Our vision is is to provide a great enviroment to work in the place we spend more time after home.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Clinical Excellence:

Provide and manage comprehensive dental care, including intra and extraoral examinations and treatments.
Meet or exceed productivity standards while maintaining the highest level of patient care.
Assess the need for and perform dental sedation procedures (Levels I and II) as required, applying compassionate behavior management techniques to ensure patient and staff safety.

2. Patient Care & Satisfaction:

Deliver outstanding customer service, addressing patient needs with empathy and professionalism.
Strive to achieve and maintain a personal patient satisfaction score of 90% or higher.

3. Collaboration & Communication:

Work closely with the Office Manager to ensure the practice's mission and vision are communicated and practiced.
Participate actively in peer review processes and contribute to chart audits and documentation.

4. Adherence to Standards:

Follow established policies, procedures, and objectives related to quality improvement, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
Refer patients to specialists and relevant care providers as appropriate.

5. Medication Management:

Prescribe pharmaceuticals and other treatment regimens according to assessed dental conditions.
Secure and manage controlled substances used for dental sedation, ensuring proper documentation and control.

6. Community Engagement:

Support the organization's mission through participation in health promotion, education, and prevention programs.

Qualifications:

Education: Doctor of Dental Surgery (DDS) or Doctor of Dental Medicine (DMD) from an accredited university.
Specialization: Advanced education in Pediatric Dentistry.
Licensure: Unrestricted license to practice Dentistry in the State of Texas.
Certification: Certified in Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS); Sedation Permit Level 2 or higher.
Skills: Strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills. Bilingual in English/Spanish is a plus.
Flexibility: Ability to adapt to changes to improve our practice.

Responsibilities
Requirements
Physical Requirements:

Finger Dexterity: Ability to perform small, precise movements.
Communication: Clear and effective verbal communication.
Hearing: Ability to hear and understand conversations.
Repetitive Motion: Frequent use of wrists, hands, and fingers.
Vision: Adequate visual acuity for reading and reviewing documents.
Physical Activity: Primarily sedentary work with occasional lifting of items up to 25 lbs.

Communication and management Requirements:

Listen parents needs and align them with our office policies.
Manage a clear and simple communication with parents in a level of language easy to understood by them.
Establish a good communication with the Office Manager and Main Dentist to see how to handle situations in the best way possible.
Be able to report any equipment that is not working and delay or stop to do his job in a timely manner.
Estalblish a great communication with our dental assistant team and manage any situation thru his office manager.
Documentation of all the patient records with the detail needed in case any situation outside of the normal one.

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