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Aria Care Partners
Peoria, Illinois

Traveling Dentist – Nursing Home Care

DentistPart-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Sign-On Bonus Available!

We seek a highly skilled and compassionate Traveling Dentist to join our dynamic team!

As a Mobile Dentist, you will work to provide comprehensive dental care to our patients!

If you are a new college graduate or experienced Dentist, this opportunity is for you!

Being a Traveling Dentist with Aria Care Partners provides you with the opportunity to deliver unmatched patient care to residents in skilled nursing facilities. You will be responsible for assessing dental health, addressing dental concerns, developing and discussing the treatment plan, performing limited procedures, and conducting oral cancer screenings.

Work-Life Balance that Works for You! We are seeking a Dentist for one to two days per week. We work with your schedule!

Compensation

Competitive pay with a minimum daily guarantee. Drive time + Clinic time is all compensated.

Candidates must possess a valid driver's license and maintain a clean driving record.

Responsibilities

  • Develop treatment plans to manage, improve, and treat dental and oral health issues
  • Perform simple procedures such as exams, fillings, extractions, and denture-related services.
  • Order diagnostic measures, such as x-rays.
  • Apply helpful agents to teeth, such as silver diamine fluoride, to arrest decay.
  • Maintain accurate dental records.

Manage and communicate with the facility and family to ensure the patient has the proper support for successful daily oral hygiene.

Do what you do best: patient care! We focus on the clinical operations team managing all the coordination, including Scheduling and billing, so you can stay focused on doing what you love, providing "The Senior Standard of Care" to our patients!

Aria Care Partners is the national leader in providing onsite dental, vision, hearing, and podiatry care to over 3500 long-term care and skilled nursing facilities across 25 states. Aria Care Partners believes that our clinicians should be able to focus on providing the best, most comprehensive care for their patients.

Our clinicians visit different skilled nursing communities daily, bringing life-affirming care to an underserved population. Our business model, innovation, customer support and teamwork deliver an unparalleled customer experience, resulting in a customer satisfaction rating of over 98%.

Executing this strategic philosophy resulted in rapid company growth with revenue increases of 25%-30% annually over the last 4 years, nearly doubling the size of the company.

Company values include caring fully for our customers and fellow employees, striving for excellence and continuous improvement, and excelling through the power of teamwork and collaboration. At Aria Care Partners, our mission is to enrich the quality of life for every resident with passion and compassion.

Working at Aria Matters!

Requirements

Candidates must be a licensed dentist with a valid driver's license and a clean driving record. The role is open to both new graduates and experienced professionals.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure

Key Skills

Patient assessmentTreatment planningDenture servicesX-ray diagnosticsSilver diamine fluoride applicationDental record maintenancePatient communication

General Dentistry Career Context

Of the 50 active Dentist listings this role was benchmarked against, 28% have no call, 90% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Illinois is 100.0 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 62.6% of Illinois clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Dentist by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedDentist median $275k (middle half $225k–$295k)18 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingIllinois index 100.0US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
General Dentistry listings in Illinois54 active—live on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
All dentist listings in Illinois187 active5,987 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 28% no call · 90% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentsign-on bonusIllinois healthcare professional listings (all specialties): 33% state a sign-on bonus (median $15k) · 7% offer loan repayment187 active listings, Nov 2026
New General Dentistry listings616 in the last 30 days433 the 30 days before (+42%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. Illinois figures use all dentists: too few Illinois General Dentistry postings state pay.

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Salary Distribution

14 jobs
4
<$260k
1
$260k
6
$290k-320k
0
$320k-350k
3
$350k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

13 jobs
401k / retirement match
62%
CME allowance
54%
Sign-on bonus
38% this job
Loan repayment
31%
Visa sponsorship
23%

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 2.8
Better work-life than 50% of Dentist listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,154 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Aria Care Partners

Hospitals and Health Care
Overland Park, Kansas
201-500 employees

Benefits & Perks

Sign-On Bonus Available
Competitive pay with minimum daily guarantee
Drive time + Clinic time compensated
Work-life balance (1-2 days/week)

Living in Peoria

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$152k
Typical market rent
$1,240/mo
Residents’ average commute
18 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
91.2
State income tax
Up to 5%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), Zillow market rents (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Peoria, IL metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.