What are the responsibilities and job description for the DENTIST position at GEO Secured Services?
**INDEPENDENT CONTRACT | ON-SITE **
SCHEDULE: FULL TIME | M-F
Overview
Our company is the global leader in its industry, and we're looking for motivated and ambitious professionals to grow our team. We have an excellent opportunity for dentists who are looking to build a successful career where they can assume a leadership role and create and improve our processes and our quality of services. Our ideal candidate is someone who can ensure we provide excellent oral care to our patients by preserving their teeth, preventing oral disease spread, and educating them on oral health. You will also act as a consultant to the facility staff physician.
Join A Community That Cares
Joining our company means contributing to our mission to provide the best rehabilitation and community reintegration programs and services to those in our care. GEO is a place for professional growth, exploration, creativity, and valuable interpersonal relationships. Interested in achieving extraordinary things? Send in your application! Come and meet us! Every one of our employees makes us who we are.
We're looking for individuals from different backgrounds
Building an inclusive culture where every employee can perform to their maximum potential is the center of GEO's employee value proposition. Our success is based on diversity in our workforce and the inclusion of eclectic perspectives, ideas, and backgrounds. Everyone is encouraged to apply. Here's to unlimited ideas, increased productivity, and innovative solutions!
Responsibilities
Job Responsibilities
- Initiate and maintain compliance with company policies for accreditation.
- Complete an initial dental screening on all new commitments within seven (7) days.
- Evaluate patients needing or applying for dental care.
- Take impressions for dental plates and send prostheses to outside dental labs.
- Formulate and create individual treatment plans after a thorough exam.
- Perform routine cleaning, drilling, filling, and extraction of teeth following National Commission for Correctional Health Care Standards for dental care.
- Teach about diet, flossing, use of fluoride, and other aspects of dental care.
- Prescribe pharmaceuticals, other medications, and treatment regimens to treat identified and documented dental conditions.
- Produce clear and concise health records, reports, and correspondence, including the use of Electronic Health Records system.
- Maintain supplies and equipment inventory.
- Provide in-service training for health staff members (dental hygiene, dental care, dental emergencies, and techniques).
- Supervise professional, technical, and administrative staff.
- Collaborate with the Hospital medical team, Psychiatric, Mental Health Professionals, Nurses, Health Technicians, and Administrative Assistants.
- Maintain professional and technical knowledge (attend workshops/seminars/conferences, review professional publications, etc.)
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Degree in dentistry from an accredited dental school required. Licensed to practice as a registered dentist in the state in which the facility is located is required.
- Professional license must remain on file at all times at the facility where services are rendered.
The GEO Group is an equal opportunity employer. Geo will recruit, hire, train, promote, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, genetics, protected veteran status, and disability, or other category protected by law, and we will ensure that all employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements. As a federal government contractor, it is GEO's policy to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment minorities, females, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. GEO will also provide reasonable accommodation to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified employee or applicant for employment, unless the accommodation would impose undue hardship on the operation of our business.
