{"id":721417,"url":"https://alion.io/job/enabledental-clinical-director","title":"Clinical Director","company":{"id":673176,"name":"Enable Dental","domain":"enabledental.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/enabledental","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":"head","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Los Angeles, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":225000,"max":250000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":250000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-31T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-31","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T21:52:38Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":27,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":27},"description":"CLINICAL DIRECTOR, WEST COAST\nReports to: Chief Clinical Officer\nLocation: California based, remote with regional travel (target 25 to 35 percent)\nStatus: Full time, exempt\nCompensation: $225,000-$250,000 base, plus performance incentive and benefits\nLicensure: Active California DENTIST license required at hire. Additional state licensure within the region obtained over the first several months, supported by the company.\nClinical time: One day per week in clinic\nAbout the role\nEnable Dental delivers mobile and portable dentistry to PACE programs, skilled nursing facilities, assisted living communities, and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities across 27 markets and 13 states. The West Coast Clinical Director is the senior clinical leader for the region and the clinical seat at the table with our West Coast program partners.\nThis is a regional ownership role. You are the clinical line of authority for providers in the region, the clinical voice with payer and program leadership, and the person accountable for the quality and integrity of the care delivered under our contracts.\nScope\nClinical supervision of West Coast providers across PACE, SNF, ALF, and IDD sites\nPrimary clinical relationship owner for West Coast PACE and payer programs\nRegional peer to the operations leader for the same territory, reporting to the CCO\nPartners with the other Clinical Directors, Compliance, and the full Clinical Excellence team to keep standards, audit definitions, and provider expectations consistent across every region\nResponsibilities\nProvider leadership and development\nServe as the clinical supervisor of record for dentists and hygienists in the region, holding the clinical reporting line and the standards that come with it\nConduct in person onboarding and 30, 60, and 90 day check ins for new providers\nCoach the geriatric and special needs care model case by case: treatment planning, case presentation, palliative sequencing, prognosis judgment on medically complex and frail patients\nOwn error report follow up, remediation planning, and retraining\nParticipate in clinical screening and hiring of provider candidates for the region\nQuality and chart audit\nRun routine chart auditing to a defined coverage standard per provider per quarter, in partnership with the Clinical Excellence team and the fractional audit consultant\nConduct treatment plan audits and clinical review of the schedule\nInvestigate clinical grievances to closure inside contractual and federally clocked response windows, and route findings into provider coaching\nMaintain provider scorecards on documentation quality, remake rate, and adherence to standards\nReferral and specialty care management\nReview specialist referrals for clinical appropriateness and scope, redirecting to internal providers where clinically appropriate\nUpskill regional general dentists on surgical extractions and straightforward endodontics\nDesign the clinical model for fractional internal endodontist and oral surgeon capacity, and manage single case agreements with external specialists\nContract and benefit adjudication\nAdjudicate frequency-limited, carve-out, and conditional services against each contract's benefit design at the chart level\nSecure prospective interdisciplinary team authorization for out-of-benefit cases before treatment, with a documented authorization trail\nIdentify and sequence program-paid cases, including the implant and advanced prosthetic pipeline, for internal delivery\nProvide clinical redline input at contract renewal on frequency definitions, remake and warranty windows, and benefit language\nProgram partnership\nRepresent Enable Dental clinically at quarterly joint operating committees, including preparation and follow through\nDeliver quarterly clinical summaries and reconciliations per program\nProvide clinical input to business development on new programs and market launches in the region\nStandards and process\nWork with Compliance on licensure, credentialing, CE, state supervision rules, and site visit findings across every state in the region\nContribute to the Clinical Policy Manual and to regional standard operating procedures, developed jointly with the other Clinical Directors so one region's practice does not diverge from the rest\nFeed audit results and provider performance into the Clinical Excellence dashboard\nClinical practice\nTreat patients one day per week in the field. This keeps licensure current, sustains credibility with the providers you lead, and gives you direct knowledge of the care model, the equipment, and the site conditions your team works in.\nHow performance is measured\nChart audit coverage per provider per quarter\nGrievance response time and closure rate\nProvider 30, 60, and 90 day check in completion\nReferral turnaround and appropriateness review coverage\nExternal specialist spend per referral\nAdjudication and authorization volume against contract terms\nProvider retention and engagement\nRemake rate and documentation quality at provider level\nRequired qualifications\nDDS or DMD from an accredited program\nActive, unrestricted California dental license in good standing at hire. California is the only license required on day one.\nWillingness to obtain licensure in the additional states within the region over the first several months. The company covers application costs and provides time to complete the process, and Compliance manages the sequence with you.\nFive or more years of clinical practice, including general dentistry with removable prosthetics, extractions, and treatment planning for medically complex adults\nDirect supervisory experience with dentists and hygienists reporting to you\nWorking fluency with electronic health records, and comfort using data and reports as a routine part of clinical decision making\nWillingness to travel regionally on a regular cadence\n Ideal background\nWe expect the strongest candidates to come from one of the following, and we are equally interested in all three:\nDSO or group practice clinical leadership. Regional or multi site clinical director experience where dentists and hygienists reported to you directly, with accountability for quality, standards, and provider development across locations.\nFQHC or public health dentistry. Dental director experience in a federally qualified health center, community health center, or public health system, including work under government contracts, grant requirements, and reporting obligations.\nMilitary dental leadership. Command of a dental clinic or department, with responsibility for provider readiness, credentialing, standards enforcement, and quality assurance in a chain of command structure.\nAdditionally valued, in any combination:\nMobile or portable dentistry experience, including treating patients outside a fixed operatory\nTeledentistry experience, whether synchronous or store and forward, including remote review and consultation workflows\nExperience with government and insurance contracts for dental care, including Medicaid, Medicare Advantage, PACE, managed care, or state program contracting\nExperience working for a dental insurance company or dental benefits administrator, particularly in utilization review, prior authorization, dental consultant, or dental director roles\nFamiliarity with capitated and per member per month payment models, benefit design, and frequency limitations\nGeriatric, long term care, special needs, or hospital dentistry experience\nQuality assurance, peer review, or dental board complaint process experience\nMulti state licensure, particularly in the western region\nWhat this role is not\nThis is not a production role with director duties attached. Chair time is capped at one day a week and is deliberate. 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