Dental Community Faculty-PRN

JOB SUMMARY:

The PRN Dental Faculty role serves as support faculty for the Dentistry and Oral Health department at MAHEC.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Attends, supervises and instructs GPR residents and UNC Adams School of Dentistry students
  • Procedures or Skills that are essential to the role.
• Provides care to patients on an as needed basis
• Examines patients with learners as requested and in compliance with resident training standards and payor contracts
• Completes documentation as needed
• Is available to consult with hygienists, dental assistants, and business office staff
• Completes worklists and documentation tasks as assigned by leadership
• Reviewing and signing off on resident/student notes
• Assist in treatment planning and procedures
• When attending, is present in clinic until all patient care is completed and patients have exited their care location
• Participates in faculty meetings and communicates regularly with faculty and leadership

This role description is a general description of the essential job functions.  It is not intended to describe all the duties the PRN Dental Faculty may perform.

KEY COMPETENCIES:

• Communication Skills

Effectively and respectably communicate with other individuals, whether it be a colleague, patient, or patient’s family member and appropriately enumerate information in a manner easily understood by all parties. We do this to foster a culture of understanding between all parties, especially in complex and difficult situations, to ultimately provide the best care possible to our patients and their families.

• Decision Making

Ability to make the most appropriate decision in a given situation and then taking the next steps to ensure appropriate and timely completion. This requires conflict resolution skills, critical thinking skills, confidence in your ability to make the right decision in most situations. This also includes ability to prioritize your workday appropriately to ensure the most important tasks are completed on time.

• HealthCare Knowledge

Having the drive to keep yourself abreast and up to date on the new breakthroughs in your area of expertise and communicating them to the rest of the team, as appropriate.  This also includes keeping up with your licensure and yearly training requirements within your area expertise along with MAHEC’s organizational training. Finally, the ability to apply the depth of knowledge maintained and gained through this process in real life scenarios as appropriate.

• Interpersonal Skills

Showing the ability to meet difficult situations with grace, professionalism, and understanding. Within your area of expertise, showing respect and showing empathy where appropriate with your colleagues, patients, and their family at all times, even when its most difficult to do so. This is done, in part, by effective listening, being your authentic self, showing responsibility and dependability, and being patient with others.

• Organizational Values

Adherence to MAHEC’s founding principles and incorporating them every day. This includes, among others, having integrity and accountability, reverence for other cultures and equitable practices, ability to manage change, and displaying a clear understanding of organizational dynamics. Doing these things creates a culture where people want to do the best for each other and gives personal ownership towards the goal of helping people in their time of need.

• Problem Solving

Having an analytical mind and ability to work autonomously to solve complex problems that may arise. The wherewithal to think logically through a difficult problem and come to an appropriate resolution for a given issue. This helps to drive continuous improvement by thinking through where we can improve in a novel way. Measures success by understanding where we are currently and where we want to go and then applying those new ideas to affect positive change.

SPECIFIED SKILLS

• COMPUTER
  • Proficiency in communication software such as Outlook, WebEx/Zoom, and Word is required. 
  • Experience with or ability to utilize electronic medical record applications including but not limited to Dentrix Enterprise, MiPacs, etc.
• FOREIGN LANGUAGE
  • Not Applicable.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• Light - Moderate energy level: Lift and carry 25 - 35 lbs, Push/Pull 50 - 100 lbs (empty bed, stretcher, etc.)
• Occasional (0 - 33% of Workday); bending, standing, twisting, sitting

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Not Applicable.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Experience in General Dentistry patient care training and skills
  • Experience in GPR residency programs
• PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Prefer interest and experience in dental resident & student teaching

REQUIRED LICENSES:

• License to practice Dentistry in North Carolina, or
• Teaching/Instructors Licensure in Dentistry in North Carolina

SCHEDULE:

Regular attendance on-site is an essential function of this position. Typical business hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm (or flexed to best meet the needs of the clients and/or the Division); 40 hours per workweek; weekend, holiday, or evening coverage is occasionally required. Work hours will need to be flexible in order to respond to special work assignments, or evening activities, as requested by the team leader.

When learners are engaging in clinical patient care, it is mandatory for an attending to be present. If patient care starts early or runs past usual morning clinic hours, it is the Dental department’s expectation that faculty must remain in attendance until the last patient is walked out. Once morning patient care concludes, faculty are encouraged to take lunch whenever possible for their health and work/life balance.  Where they choose to take this lunch time is up to them. If morning faculty are covering both AM and PM clinics, and AM clinic runs past 12:30, a full lunch break is not possible.  For PRN faculty, who are paid by the hour, it is acceptable to put in for "no lunch" when afternoon and morning work obligations do not allow a half-hour lunch between.  If clinic runs after 5pm it is acceptable to put in for that time as well.

MAHEC is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.