CDHC Learning Opportunity
About The Position
Zufall Health is offering a Community Dental Health Coordinator (CDHC) Certification through a remote learning program. This program is designed using the curriculum developed by experts in education, public health, and dentistry to meet core competencies. CDHCs are community health workers with dental skills who are members of the dental team. They focus on case management, navigation, oral health education and promotion, motivational interviewing, and community mapping, linking patients to available dental care. CDHCs are trained to interact with cultural competence in dentally underserved communities, understanding the people, language, and barriers to oral health. The training emphasizes community outreach, coordination of care, educational and social interventions, and prevention. They work under a dentist's supervision, collect information for patient triaging, address social and health literacy issues, provide dental health education, coordinate care, and help patients navigate the healthcare system.
Requirements
- Community health workers with dental skills.
- Members of the dental team.
- Trained to interact with cultural competence.
- Understand the people, language, and barriers to oral health in their communities.
- Work under a dentist's supervision.
- Work within the confines of state dental practice acts.
- Collect information to assist dentists in triaging patients.
- Address social, environmental, and health literacy issues.
- Provide dental health education.
- Help people develop goals to enhance their oral health.
- Coordinate care in accordance with a dentist's instructions.
- Help patients navigate the complexities of the health care system.
Nice To Haves
- In many cases they already know the people with whom they will work.
Responsibilities
- Focus on case management, navigation, oral health education and promotion, motivational interviewing, and community mapping.
- Link patients into available, but underutilized, dental care.
- Interact with cultural competence in dentally underserved communities.
- Understand the people, language, and barriers to oral health in those communities.
- Work under a dentist's supervision, and within the confines of state dental practice acts, in clinics, schools, and other public health settings with people of similar ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
- Collect information to assist dentists in triaging patients.
- Address social, environmental, and health literacy issues.
- Provide dental health education and help people develop goals to enhance their oral health.
- Coordinate care in accordance with a dentist's instructions.
- Help patients navigate the complexities of the health care system.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
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