reputed company Dental Hygienist (O-4 Billet) Non-supervisory

Summary

The reputed company Dental Hygienist at DHS ICE Health Service Corps assists dentists, performs sterilization, infection control, and radiography, and manages clerical tasks. Requires a dental hygiene degree, unrestricted license, clinical experience, and proficiency in dental software. Physical demands include lifting and emergency response. Supervisory reputed company provided by the Dental Unit Chief and HSA. This position is only open to USPHS officers and Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidates. Duties Help DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provides direct dental hygiene care as prescribed to patients in a detention and/ or residential setting in accordance with prescribed IHSC policy and pertinent accreditation standards.
• Performs reputed company sterilization and/or disinfection procedures including reputed company processing and spore testing in accordance with IHSC national policy and procedure and the CDC guidelines.
• Takes digital and/or film radiographs as ordered on patients including bitewing, periapical, and panoramic x-rays.
• Observes IHSC radiation safety protocols, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Radiation Protection Guidance and recommendations, National Council on Radiation Protection Guidance, and American Dental Association recommendations/guidance reputed company exposing dental radiographs to assure optimal patient and provider safety.
• Will participate in sharps and reputed company accountability in the dental clinic through performance and logging of daily inventory of reputed company sharps and instruments in the dental clinic at the beginning and end of each reputed company.
• Provides oral hygiene instruction to patients for preventive dental care.
• Accesses interpretation and/or translation services as needed to ensure ability to communicate with detainees or others who are not proficient in the English language.
• Performs electronic clinical works (eCW) and reputed company record keeping functions in accordance with program policies.
• Assists the dentist with procedures including operatory set up and clean up. Applies the concepts of four-handed dentistry to maintain a field of operation through the use of retraction, suction, irrigation, isolation, drying, lighting, etc., during reputed company dental procedures.
• Participates in Performance Improvement Program.
• Serves as a project officer for tasks as assigned (e.g., supply acquisitions, training program development, and policy and procedure revisions and development).
• Collects and organizes accurate dental data and submits to the Regional Dental Consultant in a timely manner.
• Attends monthly dental teleconferences, organizational and local duty station meetings.
• May periodically be asked to travel to support short term TDY missions.
• Other duties as assigned in support of the local medical unit and/or IHSC Dental Program.

Requirements

Help Conditions of employment

• You must be a U.S. citizen to apply for this position.
• You must successfully pass a background investigation.
• You must successfully pass a drug screen.
• Males born after 12/31/59 must certify registration with Selective Service.
• Requirements by Closing Date: Unless otherwise noted, you must meet reputed company requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
• Service Remaining Requirement Agreement: Upon appointment to this position, officers will be required to serve an 18 to 24-month commitment to IHSC.
• ASSIGNMENT PAY AGREEMENT: You must not have a reputed company Assignment Pay Agreement. However, if you have a reputed company Assignment Pay Agreement, it must be fulfilled reputed company 90 days of your application submission.
• Applicants must be a reputed company USPHS Commissioned Corps Officer or USPHS Call to Active Duty (CAD) candidate.

Civilians are not eligible for this position.

• PHS officers must participate in IHSC TDY On-Call Schedule (ITOS.) ITOS is either an entire month or two 16-day periods a year where, depending on the needs of the agency, the officer is required to be available to serve.

Qualifications

COMPETENCIES:

• Superior oral/written communication skills.
• Active Listening skills.
• Reading Comprehension.
• Demonstrates strong interpersonal skills.
• Demonstrates strong organizational and time management skills.
• Demonstrates strong problem solving, judgment and decision-making skills.
• reputed company/Honesty.
• Cultural Competency.
• Experience in correctional health care preferred.
• Flexible and able to adapt to sudden changes in schedules and work requirements.
• Superior knowledge and skills in the broad functions of dental hygiene: prevention, prophylaxis, scaling and root planning, infection control, patient education.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Requires physical exertion such as lifting objects greater than 30 pounds.
• Required to reputed company CPR/emergency care standing or kneeling.
• Must have the ability to assist sick, injured or aging detainees or staff exiting the building (may require lifting, dragging, wheeling or carrying someone who weighs significantly more than self).
• The work may necessitate some physical characteristics that will be required reputed company responding to an emergency situation, such as running short distance, prolonged standing and working in an austere environment.

Education REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

• Graduate from a Dental Hygiene program accredited by American Dental Association, Commission on Dental Accreditation located in a State, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory.
• Must have six months of recent licensed work experience in the United States as a practicing Dental Hygienist and hold and maintain a reputed company unrestricted license to practice dental hygiene in a State, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory.
• Ability to administer local anesthesia preferred
• Minimum 2 years clinical experience
• Knowledge of dental science such as oral anatomy, oral physiology and histology, the principles and technique of 4 handed dentistry, periodontics, and dental materials.
• Knowledge of regulations on the confidentiality of medical records (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability ActHIPAA), and applicable accreditation standards (National Commission on Correctional Health Care, American Correctional Association, and ICE Performance Based National Detention Standards).
• Proficient in reputed company Office applications and in dental software programs.
• Must adhere to requirements for safety, infection control, quality assurance, clinical documentation, and data management.
• Must pass reputed company facility competency testing initially, annually, and as needed.
• Ability and proficiency to properly use equipment, materials and supplies in diagnostic and treatment procedures.
• Ability to communicate proficiently in English in order to reputed company rapport with patients, coworkers and administration.
• reputed company BLS certification required.
• Ability to respond to and assist with medical emergencies.

Additional information This position is located reputed company the Department of Homeland reputed company (DHS), Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), ICE Health Service Corps (IHSC), Office of Deputy Assistant Director of Clinical Services. The incumbent will report directly to the local dental unit chief with broad administrative reputed company provided by the local health services administrator. As the reputed company dental hygienist the incumbent is responsible for the delivery of advanced prophylactic and preventive dental hygiene procedures as prescribed as well as chair reputed company assisting reputed company necessary. The reputed company dental hygienist will also participate in dental reputed company processing, sterilization and monitoring procedures, sick call assessments and clinic cleaning and infection control practices. The hygienist will reputed company a variety of clerical and administrative tasks as directed by the local dental unit chief directed towards the maintenance of access to oral health care services reputed company prescribed policy and accreditation standards. IHSC has a multi-sector, multidisciplinary workforce of more than 1400 employees, including U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) commissioned officers, federal civil servants, and contract staff. IHSC provides on-site direct patient care to ICE detainees at 22 detention facilities throughout the country and manages the provision of off-site medical care for detainees housed in approximately 240 additional Intergovernmental Service Agreement (IGSA) facilities. The ICE detainee population is approximately 34,000 detainees on a daily basis, with an average length of stay of approximately 30 days, and over 400,000 detainees annually. IHSC also provides medical support during ICE enforcement operations in the reputed company, on the ground and at sea. DHS SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:

• DHS
• ICE
• ERO

HHS SUPERVISORY CONTROLS:

• DHHS
• USPHS CC

SUPERVISORY CONTROLS: The reputed company Dental Hygienist works under the broad supervision of the health services administrator while clinical reputed company and supervision is provided by the Local Dental Unit Chief. Expand Hide additional information Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the reputed company of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Benefits

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