Overview
La Clínica de La Raza is a community-based health center committed to providing culturally appropriate, high-quality, and accessible health care to the diverse communities of the San Francisco Bay Area. We have spent over 40 years advocating for and creating a health home for the many that have been denied access to care. As health care activists, we are dedicated to making sure individuals who do not have health coverage receive the same level of quality healthcare as those who have it. From our genesis as a community health center in 1971, we understood that we cannot heal our communities without addressing the economic and social factors that affect health. We coordinate and connect patients to a broad network of services to improve and maintain health and well-being, with over 90,000 individuals served. Our clinics span 35 sites across Alameda, Contra Costa and Solano counties.
Be a champion for community dentistry. As vulnerable populations lose access to care, it becomes more important than ever that those who can lend their skills and passion for serving their communities step forward, live their values, and advance our mission. La Clínica offers opportunities for mentorship, leadership, and continuing education designed to expand your reach as a mission-driven dental provider, with robust perks and NHSC loan repayment options. Our Bay Area clinics are known for cultural diversity, quality of life, and community engagement.
Major Areas of Responsibility
The following areas describe typical duties for this role; duties may vary by site and program needs.
Dental Care Delivery
- Handle all aspects of general dentistry
- Perform oral exams, restorations, extractions, and prophylactic work
- Treat oral diseases and confer with physicians regarding medical/dental problems
- Assign patients to plaque control or other educational programs
- Examine teeth, gums, and related tissues using dental instruments, x-rays, or other diagnostic equipment to evaluate dental health, diagnose diseases or abnormalities, and plan appropriate treatment
- Diagnose and treat diseases, injuries, or malformations of teeth, gums, or related oral structures and provide preventive or corrective services
- Write prescriptions for antibiotics or other medications
- Formulate plan of treatment for patient's teeth and mouth tissue
Patient Experience
- Advise or instruct patients regarding preventive dental care, causes and treatment of dental problems, and oral health care services
- Use masks, gloves, and safety glasses to protect patients and self from infectious diseases
- Design, make, or fit prosthodontic appliances, such as space maintainers, bridges, or dentures, or write fabrication instructions or prescriptions for dental assistants
Mentorship & Collaboration
- Willing to be credentialed as volunteer faculty for University of California San Francisco and Lutheran Medical Center to assist the Associate Dental Director in mentoring and supervising AEGD residents at La Clinica
- Serve as a member of a cross-functional team of Dentists that provides exceptional patient care and performs four-handed dentistry and oral surgery
- Attend staff conferences; keep clinical and other records regarding services provided, supplies and materials used
Minimum Job Requirements
Knowledge
- Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities, including symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive healthcare measures
- Good time management skills and evidence-based approaches to dental care
- Patient service: Knowledge of principles and processes for providing patient services, including needs assessment, quality standards, and patient satisfaction evaluation
- Healthcare technology: Working knowledge and experience with Practice Management System software
Abilities
- Ability to deal courteously and effectively with patients and maintain good working relationships with staff
- Ability to operate all types of dental equipment and machinery
- Ability to recognize when something is wrong or likely to go wrong
- Ability to make precisely coordinated movements of the fingers to manipulate very small objects
- Ability to work across cultures and support diversity, equity and inclusion
- English/Spanish proficiency preferred but not required
Experience And Other Certifications
- Graduation from an accredited school of dentistry; possession of valid D.D.S./D.M.D.
- One year of experience in all phases of general dentistry and/or administrative experience in a clinic setting
- License to practice in the State of California
- DEA number
- Cultural competence working in diverse/low-income communities