Clinical Supervisor-Dental Hygiene

Tennessee State University invites applications for the position of Clinical Supervisor-Dental Hygiene. This position is responsible for supervising student clinicians and serves as part of the academic team. Working closely with all members of that team, students, supervisory dentist, and other members of the administrative team to transfer clinical and curricular knowledge to dental hygiene students through their pre-clinical and clinical experiences.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Provides focused clinical instruction and supervision to dental hygiene students in the principles of dental hygiene practice at the freshman an d sophomore levels.
• Render remediation to enrolled students in conjunction with clinic performance.
• Conducts evaluation of performance skill and competency assessments using current management technology.
• Work cohesively with academic team to assess Student Learning Outcomes, SLO in relation to Program Outcomes, PO -Work cohesively with First and Second year LEAD to contribute to team development of clinical syllabi and evaluation procedures.
• Submits midterm and final clinical grades for students enrolled in clinical sections.
• Attend mandatory faculty meetings and team meetings as scheduled.
• Develop evidence-based clinical research (scholarly work) in conjunction with clinical teaching.
• Work cohesively with members of the academic team to analyze/assess curriculum based performance data from management software (TalEval, Ascend Academic-maybe transitioning to new systems).
• Work cohesively with academic team to develop calibration exercises to enhance team performance.
• Performs other duties as assigned or requested (e.g. recruitment engagements, community volunteering)