The Supervisory Dental Hygienist serves as the senior clinical and administrative leader for the Dental Hygiene Program within the Central Texas VA health Care System (CTVHCS), providing comprehensive overtight for dental hygiene operations located in Temple, Waco, and Austin.
The incumbent will perform a variety of duties, including but not limited to the following: Provides direct supervision, administrative management, and professional oversight of all dental hygienists assigned to existing Temple, Waco, and Austin clinics. Develops staffing plans, workload distribution strategies, clinic schedules, productivity standards, and access improvement initiatives.
Conducts recruitment, interviews, onboarding, orientation, competency assessments, performance evaluations, recognition programs, and corrective actions as appropriate. Develops and maintains policies, procedures, functional statements, competency assessment tools, and clinical practice guidelines.
Monitors compliance with VHA directives, Office of Dentistry requirements, Joint Commission standards, OSHA regulations, infection prevention standards, privacy requirements, and local facility policies. Analyzes productivity, access metrics, quality indicators, patient outcomes, recall effectiveness, workload trends, and performance measures.
Provides recommendations to leadership regarding resource utilization, staffing requirements, process improvements, and strategic initiatives. Provides advanced clinical dental hygiene services including comprehensive periodontal assessments, prophylaxis, scaling and root planning, administration of local anesthesia where authorized, preventive therapies, oral health education, tobacco cessation counseling, and management of medically compromised patients.
Serves as a subject matter expert in preventive dentistry, periodontal disease prevention, and oral health promotion. Coordinates educational activities, staff development programs, competency validation, continuing education opportunities, and student training experiences. Participates in committees, interdisciplinary teams, performance improvement activities, infection prevention initiatives, and organizational workgroups supporting facility goals.
The primary duty station and patient care responsibilities will be in Temple. The 25% travel is intended to provide flexibility for occasional visits to Waco or Austin for supervisory responsibilities, staff meetings, or other operational needs, as necessary. Routine travel is not anticipated. Work Schedule: Monday - Friday 7:30am - 4:00pm Telework: Not Available Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Functional Statement #: Supervisory Dental Hygienist/56522-F, CLC: S01 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/. An Associate degree or higher from an accredited dental hygiene program. The degree must have been obtained from an institution whose accreditation was in place for the year in which the course of study was completed. Approved programs are: Dental hygiene programs accredited by the American Dental Association's Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA).
Education completed outside of the United States must be considered at least equivalent to that gained in CODA accredited United States programs and would enable the candidate to sit for the National Board Dental Hygiene Examination, which is administered by the Joint Commission on National Dental Examinations. NOTE: If your school has changed names, or is no longer in existence, you must provide this information in your application.
NOTE: If your school was accredited by CODA at the time of graduation but is no longer listed on the CODA website (https://coda.ada.org/find-a-program), you must provide documentation of accreditation with your application packet.
This position is with Veterans Health Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs.
The posted pay range is $88643 – $115242/yr.
Applications close on 2026-10-28.
This position is open under the 'Public' hiring path.
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