Staff Dentist

The Staff Dentist under the supervision of the Dental Director is responsible for providing basic dental services for clinic patients including but not limited to: diagnosis treatment planning routine restorative care periodontal treatment oral surgery endodontic treatment prosthetics and pediatric dentistry. Emphasizes the importance of education and prevention to patients and staff.

The ideal candidate will embrace our mission to provide high quality health care to patients of all ages and support our vision and values through excellence and competence collaboration innovation respect commitment to our community and accountability and ownership.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Consistently adhere to and/or exceed SPLGs communication guidelines and expectations with internal and external customers including co-workers patients and external partners.
• Communicate effectively by using welcoming words proper tone of voice appropriate body language eye contact and smiling in all interactions. Listen skillfully and display a willingness and ability to acknowledge patient and co-workers needs expectations and values through the use of reflective listening and empathy conveyance. Respond to co-worker and patient needs in ways that are helpful and beyond expectation.
• Create reports as required by Salud Para La Gente county state and federal contracts.
• Manage the daily activities of all dental staff.
• Examine diagnosis and plan treatment for patients.
• Perform prophylaxis scaling subgingival curettage root planning and oral hygiene instruction.
• Perform endodontic therapy.
• Perform restorative dentistry.
• Perform oral surgery with special consideration given to patients general health.
• Provide immediate treatment of dental emergencies.
• Provide local anesthesia.
• Prescribe medications as necessary.
• Submit evaluations of staff in a timely fashion.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Holds a degree from an accredited dental school.
• Has a current valid license to practice dentistry; issued by the California State Board of Dental Examiners.
• Be up to date on current dental principles practices and materials.
• Possess certification in Basic-Cardio Life Support within six months of employment.
• Bilingual Spanish/English required.
• Must be available to work Saturday shifts as requested.
• Supervisory experience.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Standing walking sitting typing reaching bending moving and/or lifting up to 50 pounds.

SALARY & BENEFITS

Salary Range: $84.14 to $104.84 per hour.

Employment Type: Full Time

Benefits: available to all regular Salud employees working 24 hours per week. Part-time employees may receive some benefits on a pro-rated basis.

• Medical Dental Vision and Life Insurance Plans
• Paid Time Off (PTO): 19 days per year
• Paid Holidays: 12 per year
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with employer contribution
• Voluntary Long-Term Disability

Additional Information:

• Employees on temporary assignments are eligible for holiday pay and California sick pay both pro-rated based on hours worked.
• On-call employees are eligible for California sick pay pro-rated based on hours worked.

**Salud is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran status or genetic information. Salud is committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and activities. To request reasonable accommodation contact the Salud Human Resources Department and **