Job Title: General Dentist

Location: San Mateo

Job Type: PT 1 day/week: Friday

Schedule: Patients scheduled between 8am and 5pm

Pay: $750-850/day

Sonrisas Dental Health, Inc. (SDH) is a non-profit dental center dedicated to providing access to quality dental care and oral health education to our community. We provide these services with dignity, respect, and compassion. SDH improves the health of our community members through culturally sensitive, integrated care, with a focus on disease prevention. SDH is a dental home for our patients, providing preventative dental care, mobile dental, general dentistry, geriatric dentistry, pediatric dentistry, sedation dentistry and accommodations for patients with special needs and disabilities. Seventy-Five percent of SDH’s patients are low-income.

We are looking for a part-time dentist to join our incredible team at our San Mateo clinic and make our mission yours: Providing access to oral health care to those with physical, intellectual and economic challenges.

About the Position: As an integral part of our dental team, you will be responsible for providing clinical dental services and preventive dental care in our San Mateo clinic with infrequent care provided at our Half Moon Bay clinic. 

 

Education/Experience/Licensure:

•Graduation from an accredited dental school (DDS or equivalent) required

•3- 5 years minimum of experience providing dental care in California required

•Completion of an accredited general practice residency or AEGD program preferred

•Knowledge of public health principles and practices preferred

•Unrestricted license to practice dentistry in the State of CA required

•DEA registrations, preferred

•Current CPR (BLS) from the American Heart Association or the American Red Cross required

•Ability to maintain appropriate clinical privileges required

•Ability to obtain and maintain Professional malpractice insurance

•Effective oral and written communication skills in English are required. Effective oral communication skills in other languages preferred

•Ability to credential with any or all of our contracted dental insurances

Fundamental duties include (but are not limited to):

•Examine individuals requesting care, diagnose their dental/oral conditions, prescribes and carries out, or directs others in carrying out, appropriate dental/oral treatment, or refers individuals for specialty consultation or treatment in conformance with approved clinical protocols and guidelines

•Record patient-dentist transactions as they occur in the patient’s electronic dental record so that the dental record accurately and completely reflects the nature of the contact, the condition of the patient and the care or treatment provided.

•Complete referrals, Electronic Health Record data collections, and other records or paperwork as required from time to time by the company.

•Compliance with all applicable federal, state, local and company rules, regulations, protocols and procedures governing the practice of dentistry and the clinical provision of dental care as well as those relating to, but not limited to, personnel issues, workplace safety, public health and confidentiality

•Educate individuals in the nature of oral health related conditions and in the general promotion of oral health related disease prevention

•Assist in the provision of continuing education, on-the-job training, and the orientation of staff as requested

•As directed by the Dental Director or Chief Executive Officer, perform other related and/or necessary tasks to achieve organizational and programmatic goals and objectives

•Collaborate with the Dental Director or independently to lead clinical team members, as appropriate

•Serves/participates in special projects and other committees as assigned.

•Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned

Application process: submit cover letter and resume at admin@sonrisasdentalhealth.org

Sonrisas Dental Health reserves the right to revise or change job duties and responsibilities as the business need arises.  In compliance with EEOC 29 CFR part 1630, if the essential functions of this position cannot be performed in a satisfactory manner by the employee, further accommodations shall be made if it does not constitute undue hardships upon this organization.   

 

Sonrisas Dental Health, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, marital status, military status, gender, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or age. Sonrisas Dental Health, Inc. complies with all Federal, State, and local labor and employment laws.