Dentist (Wilsonville)
About The Position
Join our elite team of well-trained, highly qualified Health Services professionals dedicated to delivering comprehensive dental care in a correctional setting. Correctional dentistry offers an excellent alternative to an over-demanding private practice, or employment with corporations concerned more about profit than your wellbeing. Consider joining our dental teams who have already found a rewarding job opportunity with flexible schedules, excellent dental facilities, grateful patients, and an abundance of camaraderie with other health care professionals. You will provide professional chairside dental procedures, consistent with community standard in a correctional setting to an adult in custody population. You will adhere to established time frames for procedures. This position is represented by American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). This position may be eligible for Police & Fire (P&F) benefits through Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), as defined by statute.
Requirements
- Current unencumbered Dentist's license issued by the Oregon Board of Dentistry at the time of appointment.
- Limited and comprehensive oral evaluation
- Treatment planning
- Radiology
- Preventative dentistry
- Periodontal exam and treatment, excluding periodontal surgery
- Restorative dentistry
- Proficient performing extractions, simple and surgical, including flap procedures with suture placement
- Fixed and removable prosthodontics
- Prescribing of appropriate medication
- Pass a Criminal Justice Information Systems (CJIS) fingerprint-based background check and maintain CJIS eligibility.
Nice To Haves
- No previous discipline with the Oregon Board of Dentistry, or with Boards of any other states.
- Previous service within an oral and maxillofacial internship program and/or extensive experience performing oral surgery procedures (excluding complicated third molar impactions)
- Previous experience working as a dentist in corrections
- Excellent communication skills with patients and staff
- Solid work ethic, with ability to manage caseloads independently
Responsibilities
- Provide professional chairside dental procedures, consistent with community standard in a correctional setting to an adult in custody population.
- Adhere to established time frames for procedures.
Benefits
- Family health, vision, and dental insurance
- Vacation, sick leave, and 11 paid holidays
- 21 days paid military leave for national guard and reserve components
- Optional short and long-term disability
- Term life insurance
- Fully paid retirement program
- Oregon Saving Growth Plan
- Flexible spending accounts for health and childcare
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Ph.D. or professional degree
