Director of Clinical Practice, Advanced Care Clinics and Dental Faculty Practice (Healthcare Program Director)

University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus Department: School of Dental Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Sciences and Surgical Dentistry

Job Title: Director of Clinical Practice, Advanced Care Clinics and Dental Faculty Practice (Healthcare Program Director)

Position #:00690386 – Requisition #:38871

Job Summary:

This position will direct and have oversight over the administrative operations of the Dental Faculty Practice (DFP) and Advanced Care Clinics, which include General Practice Residency (GPR), Emergency and Urgent Care Clinic, and the Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery clinic in the School of Dental Medicine. This position will manage the administrative support teams for both DFP and Advanced Care Clinics and will have financial oversight of both areas.

This position will collaborate closely with the Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs and Professional Practice, Associate Dean for Financial Affairs and Strategic Projects, Director of Dental Faculty Practice, Program Director of GPR, Director of Human Resources, and other leadership positions to ensure each operation is financially stable and operationally sustainable.

This position will serve as a Practice Director for each team and will coordinate with stakeholders when suitable to share resources, as well as making decisions on financial and administrative issues for both areas.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitor expenditures to ensure compliance with CUSDM financial goals and state/university fiscal policies and procedures.

• Direct staff to coordinate all patient care activities for faculty practice to include, but not limited to, patient callbacks, patient assignment, risk management, progress monitoring, facilities adequacy, patient access to multiple disciplines, and efficient use of personnel and other resources.

• Manage billing, accounts receivable, collections and patient registration activities for the practice level. Integrate with leadership in the SDM Financial Affairs group to set resource and productivity goals.

• Provide intellectual leadership for practice methodologies in a higher education/clinical education environment.

• Assist the billing department manager in the accountability and responsibility for the collection of clinic income.  This responsibility includes working with the manager of the billing department to establish and implement appropriate policies and procedures for billing, insurance coordination and collections.

• Shall effectively assist the dental staff/residents/administrative staff in the development and training of educational programs for staff and patients.

• Identifies personnel needs, make recommendations, conducts interviews and initiates and coordinates personnel actions.

Work Location:

Onsite – this role is expected to work onsite and is located in Aurora, CO.

Why Join Us:

The University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine is nationally-recognized for the quality of its educational programs, its interdisciplinary research and its excellent clinical care programs that contribute to the health and wellbeing of many of Colorado’s most underserved citizens.

Situated in the heart of the Rocky Mountain West, the School of Dental Medicine is located on the gro