Dentist - Mobile Medical Van
- Summary
- Public Health – Seattle and King County values diverse perspectives and life experiences. The Department encourages people of all backgrounds to apply, including people of color, immigrants, refugees, women, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, and veterans.
Public Health Seattle-King County is looking for a skilled, enthusiastic and flexible dentist to fill a short-term, temporary position with the Mobile Medical Program. Mobile Medical seeks to build relationships with people living homeless by providing integrated, medical and dental services at mobile clinics that travel throughout Seattle and South King County. Care provided on the mobile dental van often acts a critical first step in encouraging patients to engage with the program's other services including behavioral health counseling, housing assessments and linkages to ongoing social services. The candidate selected for this position will be available to accept multiple shifts each month, able to work well within a team environment and demonstrate an interest in serving vulnerable adults.
Work Location: Dental services are conducted on 40 foot mobile dental clinics that travel to regularly scheduled free meal programs throughout Seattle and South King County.
Work Schedule: The mobile dental van operates eight clinics per month held during four hour shifts. For a full list of our monthly clinic locations and times, please Mobile Medical's website here: www.kingcounty.gov/health/mobilemed.
This position will remain open until filled, but applications received by April 18, 2019 at 11: 59 pm will receive first consideration.
Contact: If you have questions regarding the application process, please contact Erika Yanak, Human Resource Analyst, at erika.yanak@kingcounty.gov
APPLICATION PROCESS:
NEOGOV/Government Jobs on-line or paper application
Supplemental questionnaire responses
Resume and cover letter.
You may attach multiple documents if you wish: Copy and paste one or more documents into the text resume section of the application. Attach multiple documents/files in the resume attachment section. Your application may be rejected as incomplete if you do not include the standard information in the application. Providing information only in a resume or a cover letter will not be considered a complete application. - Job Duties
- Provide high quality general dental services as allowed by the Washington State Dental Practice Act, RCW 18.32.
- Collaborate with site management and other staff dentist to provide leadership in quality dental practice and optimum team functioning.
- Provide oversight of clinical dental practice and direction to dental assistants.
- Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills
- Current Washington State License to practice dentistry.
- Ability to provide leadership and work as a team member in a fast paced environment.
- Demonstrated skill in establishing and maintaining working relationships and working with diverse populations, staff, and cultures.
- The selected candidate must be able to work as a Medicaid accepted provider. Public Health will assist selected candidate in registration with Medicaid
Desirable Qualifications:
- Demonstrated experience in quadrant dentistry
- Demonstrated experience in simple oral surgery
- Demonstrated experience with removable prosthetics
- Demonstrated experienced working in a community or public health setting.
- Applicants bilingual in English and Spanish are desired.
- Supplemental Information
Supplemental Information
- This selection process may include but is not limited to: evaluation of application materials, responses to supplemental questions, interviewing and reference checking. For more information on our selection process, please refer to http://www.kingcounty.gov/healthservices/health/jobs.aspx
- Public Health relies on office automation (Microsoft Office) and web-based enabled tools, therefore candidates must be proficient and comfortable with computer use to perform functions associated with on-going work.
- Regular and reliable attendance, effective communication skills, and development of effective working relationships are requirements of all Public Health positions.
- Staff may be required to play a role as a first responder in the event of a Public Health emergency.
NECESSARY SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
- The selected candidate must be credentialed with a provisional clinical staff appointment prior to the actual practice date and remain credentialed with re-appointments (recredentialing) every two years.
- The selected candidate is responsible for licensure renewal in a timely manner as required by the Dental Quality Assurance Commission and as required by law.
- Documentation of current BLS CPR certification with AED training required at time of hire. CPR/AED Heartsaver courses do not meet this requirement.
- The selected candidate must pass a thorough background investigation.
- Employees are required to protect the privacy and security of protected health information as defined in State and Federal Law.
- Employees are required to adhere to OSHA/WISHA guidelines including but not limited to completing their mandatory trainings on time.
- Must possess a valid Washington State Driver's License or the ability to travel to and between work sites or other remote locations within a reasonable timeframe.
Union Affiliation: This position is not represented.
King County offers a highly-competitive compensation and benefits package to all eligible employees. These benefits include county-wide paid medical, dental and vision coverage for yourself and all eligible dependents (spouse/state-registered domestic partner and children) who you enroll. Benefit eligible positions include -- Career Service, Career Service Exempt, provisional and term-limited temporary (TLT) employees working 20 hours/week or the equivalent of half-time or greater. These benefits become effective on the first calendar day of the month following the month in which the employee is hired; except if the employee's hire date is the first calendar day of the month, benefits begins on the day of hire.
More information about employee benefits is available on the county's website at: http://www.kingcounty.gov/employees/benefits.aspx
County Paid Benefits Include:
- Health Insurance (choice of several plans)
- Dental Plan
- Vision Plan
- Life Insurance -- lump sum equal to annual base salary
- Accidental Death and Dismemberment (basic and enhanced)
- Basic Long Term Disability (LTD) -- replaces 60% of earnings after 180-day waiting period
- Bus pass and other alternative transportation incentives
- Employee Assistance Program
- Making Life Easier Program
Holidays: 10 paid holidays per year plus 2 additional floating holidays administered through the vacation plan.
Vacation with Pay:
first 6 months of employment)- Beginning of year 6: accrual at 15 days per year
- Beginning of year 9: accrual at 16 days per year
- Beginning of year 11: accrual at 20 days per year
- Beginning of year 17: accrual at 21 days per year
- Beginning of year 18: accrual at 22 days per year
- Beginning of year 19: accrual at 23 days per year
- Beginning of year 20: accrual at 24 days per year
- Beginning of year 21: accrual at 25 days per year
- Beginning of year 22: accrual at 26 days per year
- Beginning of year 23: accrual at 27 days per year
- Beginning of year 24: accrual at 28 days per year
- Beginning of year 25: accrual at 29 days per year
- Beginning of year 26: accrual at 30 days per year
Sick Leave is accumulated at the rate of one day per month. There is no restriction on the amount of sick leave that can be accumulated and carried over to subsequent years. At retirement an employee will be paid 35% of their unused, accumulated sick leave. Non-represented employees and employees in certain bargaining units will receive this benefit as a payment to a VEBA account, which pays for post-retirement health benefits on a pre-tax basis.
Other leaves include:- Bereavement Leave (up to 3 days/year)
- Military Leave
- Family Medical Leave
- King County Medical Leave
- Jury Duty Leave
- Organ Donor Leave
- Executive Leave (for eligible FLSA-exempt employees)
Voluntary Benefits -- available at employee option and at employee expense- Deferred Compensation Plan (no employer match) IRS 457 Plan
- Enhanced Long Term Disability -- reduce waiting period/increase monthly
- benefit
- Additional Life Insurance -- 1 to 4 times your base annual salary for yourself and 50% of your enhanced amount for your spouse/domestic partner; and $10,000 for each child
- Additional Accidental Death and Dismemberment coverage for employee and family
- Credit Union membership
- Flexible Spending Accounts – Health and Dependent Care
- HRA Voluntary Employee Beneficiary Association (VEBA) Trust upon retirement
accuracy. If any information on this document conflicts with the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the CBA prevails. Also, in the event of any incorrect information in this document, applicable laws, policies, rules, CBAs or official plan documents will prevail.