Dentist Hourly
Compensation
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- Employment & setting
- Per Diem
- Call expectations
- No call
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job Description
- You Matter
- Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
- Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
- Excellent career growth opportunities
Join us and find a career that supports
- Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
- Autonomy in a warm team environment
- Growth and training
Perks and Benefits
In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:
- DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
- Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
- Company paid life insurance
- Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
- Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
- Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans
Why Us
Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.
If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.
Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.
We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.
How you make a difference
The Dentist is responsible for providing dental services to inmate patients within the institution they are assigned to, while adhering to the security regulations of the facility. They are required to maintain accurate and timely documentation of their services and provide it to the director or designee to ensure compliance with client contract and proper compensation for services rendered.
Key Responsibilities
- Provides dental care and treatment to referred patients in accordance with facility regulations and standards.
- Performs routine cleaning, restorative dentistry, and extractions as needed.
- Evaluates patients' dental care needs and makes clinically appropriate recommendations.
- Takes impressions for dental appliances and instructs patients in good dental hygiene techniques.
- Maintains accurate and confidential patient records and provides in-service training for health staff members.
- Qualifications & Requirements
Education
Graduate from an accredited school of dental medicine.
Experience
- One year of experience in general dentistry preferred.
- Licenses/Certifications
- Must have and maintain current licensure as a dentist within the state of employment.
- Must obtain and maintain CPR certification.
- This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.
- We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.
We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.
Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.
Requirements
Candidates must be graduates of an accredited school of dental medicine and hold a current state dental license. One year of general dentistry experience and current CPR certification are required.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
Key Skills
Work-Life Balance Analysis
WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Dentist Hourly at Wellpath a 6.1 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the Above average in Dental — ranked against 5,122 active Dental listings on WeekdayDoc. Contributing factors include no on-call duties.
Dentistry Career Context
Of the 50 active Dentist listings this role was benchmarked against, 58% have no call, 86% require no weekends.
The cost-of-living index for Florida is 103.4 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 58.1% of Florida clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
Location & Logistics
Florida has no state income tax, which can significantly increase take-home pay compared to high-tax states.
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