Director of Dental Standards and Operations SMS-3563 | Southern Illinois University - School of Medicine - Military Veterans

The Director of Dental Standards & Operations position serves as the subject-matter expert in dental enterprise operations, providing information and advisory services based on evidenced-based literature, compliance regulations, data analysis and leading practices for dentistry and dental administration to OCM partner and stakeholder organizations. This position provides support and identification of medication use strategies that will improve clinical and economic performance; provides subject-matter expertise on policies, procedures, protocols, etc., toassure that safe, reliable and consistent processes are embedded into the delivery of correctional dental administration and services, development of a culture which values patient safety, clinical excellence, evidence-based dental practices, and continuous learning. This position will lead collaboration with all disciplines, correctional leadership, and various and appropriate medical staff to promote identification of dental administration and services vulnerabilities, dental process and procedure design using human factors and system principles,reduce human error, increase productivity, enhance safety,and develop learning strategies to understand and prevent adverse events, achieve high reliable processes, and outstanding dental clinic outcomes. The position has the authority to make policy and procedural recommendations to the administration of the SIU SOM OCM and its partners and stakeholders. This position is an integral part of the OCM leadership team.