Come Join Our Team! The Salem VA Medical Center located in Salem, Virginia is hiring for a General Dentist for the referral coordination team within Access and Scheduling Management Service. The scope of practice that a specific provider may perform is defined through the medical center's credentialing and privileging process.
VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. This position will be assigned to the Referral Coordination Team (RCT) and Community Care, aligned under the Clinical Care Coordination Manager, which falls under the Access and Scheduling Management Service within Health Administration. A Dentist must maintain clinical privileges at the VA Healthcare System and provide up to 50% clinical time (patient care) during the Referral Coordination position within consult management.
The General Dentistry dental officer shall be proficient in all aspects of general dentistry, including the ability to perform selected specialty services. Duties include but are not limited to: Enhance the quality of clinical outcomes and Veteran satisfaction while offering the Veteran the opportunity to make an informed decision about their care.
Reduce the average time it takes to schedule appointments, whether the appointment is in the VA's direct care system or in the community. Perform clinical triage of the dental referral (consult). Document the availability and selection of VA Care options and modalities, and Community Care options. Coordinate with other specialties, as needed. Perform a warm hand-off with the appropriate care option. Disposition to the specialty referral appropriately (consult).
Empower Veterans with key information to help them make more informed decisions about where to receive that care. Have clinical knowledge of a variety of dental procedures and dental specialties. Provide clinical and administrative consultation and ongoing education to Primary Care and Specialty Care. Approve pending treatment plans, apply appropriate SEOCs, and priorities within 72 hours of initiation of a consult.
Coordinates with VACC Dental Advanced Medical Support Assistants. Evaluate diagnostic information provided to the VA through community care providers. Request additional information where necessary. Evaluate and weigh multiple treatment options. Review patient medical records and determine limiting factors in the patient's dental care to include extant records in CPRS, DRM+, and Sidexis. Communicate authorizations and changes to requested procedures.
Enter authorized care into Dental Community Care consults. Communicate with the Chief of Dental regarding patient care. The provider should possess the expertise and competency to perform the following: Make oral and radiographic examinations of the oral cavity. Diagnose pathological or irregular oral conditions. Administer local anesthesia. Perform routine and complex restoration of teeth. Perform simple and complex extractions of teeth.
Perform alveoloplasty and other routine surgical procedures. Perform prosthetic dentistry to include immediate dentures, full dentures, partial dentures, crowns, and fixed bridge work. Perform routine endodontic procedures on single and multi-canal teeth. Perform routine and surgical procedures within the scope of a general dentist. Approve pending treatment plans, apply appropriate SEOCs and priorities within 72 hours of initiation of a consult.
Coordinates with VACC Dental Advanced Medical Support Assistants. Evaluate diagnostic information provided to the VA through community care providers. Request additional information where necessary. Evaluate and weigh multiple treatment options. Review patient medical records and determine limiting factors in patient's dental care to include extant records in CPRS, DRM+, and Sidexis/MiPAcs. Record the request for service for treatment plans in DRM+.
Communicate authorizations and changes to requested procedures. Display knowledge of dental eligibilities as delineated in VA Handbook 1130.01. Enter authorized care into Dental Community Care consults. Work Schedule: 7:45am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday Telework: Ad-hoc, not regular and recurring. Virtual: This is not a virtual position. Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Not Authorized
Note: Only education or degrees recognized by the U.S. Department of Education from accredited colleges, universities, schools, or institutions may be used to qualify for Federal employment. You can verify your education here: http://ope.ed.gov/accreditation/. If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education.
For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/.
christine.kozik@va.gov · 858-642-1574
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $124308 – $400000/yr.
Applications close on 2026-09-17.
This position is open under the 'Fed Internal Search' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government
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