Lead Dentist

Lead with Purpose. Empower Your Team. Transform Care.

As Lead Dentist, you’ll guide and develop your dental team while helping deliver high-quality, patient-centered care. You’ll have the opportunity to foster collaboration, support professional growth, and help shape a dental practice where patients receive compassionate care and team members can thrive.

Salary: $201,000- $245,000 full-time annual salary range.

Exceptional Benefits

• Low patient to provider ratio
• Employer-paid Health Insurance (medical, dental and vision)
• 27 Vacation Days, 11 Paid Holidays, 8+ Days Sick Leave (1 hour for every 30 hours worked)
• Retirement Plan with 6% match
• CME Allowance/Time off

What You'll Do

Provide comprehensive dental services, including general restorative and preventive care, crown and bridge, removable prosthetics, endodontics, and oral surgery.

Lead, coach, and support Staff Dentists to promote clinical proficiency, professional growth, and consistent, high-quality patient care.

Guide and support dental team members in daily operations, fostering collaboration, accountability, and a positive team-based care environment.

Partner with the Dental Director and Dental Practice Manager to support patient access, quality objectives, operational priorities, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Bring

• DDS or DMD Degree
• One year experience in a dental practice
• Current BLS certificate

Current DEA License

If you're passionate about helping others, thrive in a team environment, and want to make a meaningful impact in the community, we'd love to meet you!

About Us

Chapa-De is a non-profit community outpatient health center with a mission to advance the health and well-being of American Indians and low income individuals living in our communities by providing convenient access to high quality, compassionate care. Clinics located in Auburn, CA and Grass Valley, CA.

Chapa-De recognizes that our strength lies in our people. We are committed to the principles of equal employment and complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.

It is the intent of Chapa-De to maintain a work environment free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation.

We are dedicated to the fulfillment of this policy in regard to all aspects of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, placement transfer, training, promotion, rates of pay, and other compensation, termination, and all other terms, conditions, and privileges of employment.

Chapa-De provides reasonable accommodation to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation. We comply with California Department of Public Health Requirements.

This may include, but not limited to, masking during flu season for employees who decline an annual flu vaccine. Preference in filling vacancies will be given to qualified Indian applicants in accordance with the Indian Preference Act (Title 25, U.S. Code, section 472 & 473).