
Dentist
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Job overview
The Dentist provides dental services to inmate patients at an assigned institution while following facility security regulations. The role includes routine and restorative care, extractions, evaluating dental needs, and recommending appropriate treatment. The Dentist also maintains timely, accurate patient documentation and provides in-service training to health staff. Candidates must hold current state dentist licensure and CPR certification; one year of general dentistry experience is preferred.
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Full job description
You Matter
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Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
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Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
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Excellent career growth opportunities
Join us and find a career that supports:
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Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
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Autonomy in a warm team environment
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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:
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DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
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Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
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Company paid life insurance
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Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
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Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
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Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans
*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.
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 Dentistis responsible forprovidingdental services to inmate patients within the institution they are assigned to, while adhering to the security regulations of the facility. Theyare required tomaintainaccurateandtimelydocumentation of their services and provide it to the director or designee to ensure compliance with clientcontractand proper compensation for servicesrendered.
Key Responsibilities
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Provides dental care and treatment to referred patientsin accordance withfacility regulations and standards.
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Performs routine cleaning, restorative dentistry, and extractions as needed.
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Evaluates patients' dental care needs and makes clinicallyappropriate recommendations.
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Takes impressions for dental appliances and instructs patients in good dental hygiene techniques.
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Maintainsaccurateand confidential patient records andprovidesin-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
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Must have and maintain current licensure as a dentist within the state of employment.
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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.
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Job 26-191487
Facility CA San Luis Obispo Cty
Type Part-Time
Shift Day 8 hour
Recruiter : Full Name: First Last David Ward
Recruiter : Email [email protected]
How this job compares
Set against the 1,101 open Dentist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- US median$200–300K/yr630 salary ranges
- US median$85–106/hr83 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 27 open Dentist jobs in California and 1,101 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Westphalia Holdings6 open
- University of Southern California5 open
- Affordable Care3 open
- Experience
- Dentist postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (133 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a doctorate or professional degree; 884 of the 1,101 open Dentist jobs (80%) ask for a doctorate or professional degree.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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