Director of Dental Standards and Operations SMS-35

at SIU Medicine in Springfield, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Description
The Director of Dental Standards & Operations position serves as the subject-matter expert in dental enterprise operations, providing information and advisory services based on evidenced-based literature, compliance regulations, data analysis and leading practices for dentistry and dental administration to OCM partner and stakeholder organizations. This position provides support and identification of medication use strategies that will improve clinical and economic performance; provides subject-matter expertise on policies, procedures, protocols, etc., to assure that safe, reliable and consistent processes are embedded into the delivery of correctional dental administration and services, development of a culture which values patient safety, clinical excellence, evidence-based dental practices, and continuous learning. This position will lead collaboration with all disciplines, correctional leadership, and various and appropriate medical staff to promote identification of dental administration and services vulnerabilities, dental process and procedure design using human factors and system principles, reduce human error, increase productivity, enhance safety, and develop learning strategies to understand and prevent adverse events, achieve high reliable processes, and outstanding dental clinic outcomes.

The position has the authority to make policy and procedural recommendations to the administration of the SIU SOM OCM and its partners and stakeholders. This position is an integral part of the OCM leadership team.
 Examples of Duties

Administration: 90%

Serves as the principal administrator and champion of the Dental Operations & Standards unit of the SIU School of Medicine's (SIU SOM) Office of Correctional Medicine (OCM) with responsibility for the oversight, planning, organizing, managing, evaluating, and enhancing partner and stakeholder dental services, processes, functions and program development. Provides subject matter expertise in the field of dental operations and standards to OCM leadership, partners and stakeholders.
Summarizes and evaluates dental safety activities in the correctional health clinics and compiles comprehensive reports and recommendations of the results of such reviews of patient medical records, adverse events, grievances, complaints and lawsuits. Recommends policies, procedures, processes, guidelines, and standards and progress with their implementation and measurement of improvement. Advises on necessary corrective actions needed to improve patient safety. Conducts practical assessments of the dental management program for partners and stakeholders.
Serves as a correctional dental operations and standards expert to staff, vendors and non-medical facilities that work both inside and outside of the organization and utilizes dental and quality management knowledge to participate in review, audit, performance improvement and dental services and administration design, including mortality. Assists in development of an approach to incorporate quality, patient safety, performance improvement, and risk management into correctional dental programming. Designs and develops clinical and analytical capabilities and instruments that will support comprehensive quality management and patient safety programming within correctional health care teams, working closely with OCM leadership and clinical resources as well as with key regional stakeholders.
Assures continual assessment of space, staff and resource requirements to maintain the highest quality of dental care; develops long-term facilities planning in conjunction that places dental services as an integral part of patient care; ensures that information systems and technology used in the dental and patient care environments maximize safety, effectiveness, and efficiency; actively develops programs and processes to connect and integrate dental enterprises; consults on physical environments and job structures to assure that the design will promote employee safety; recommend the proper tools to accomplish the mission of high-quality patient care.
Utilizes accepted leading practices, dental care standards and benchmark comparisons to develop strategic operating plans that will position the dental program for optimal value, efficiency and service excellence. Directs the development and implementation of evidence based practice guidelines. Participates in orienting OCM and correctional staff members to policies and procedures related to dental services and programs administration and patient safety. Supports and enforces behavior standards and procedures for dental staff as they relate to factors that contribute to dental near misses, adverse events and quality of care improvement.
Communicates with OCM QMOE Director, and as appropriate, with IDOC Office of Dental Services Chief and/or other... For full info follow application link.

Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity Employer.