You’ll be all smiles as a CCA dentist.
There’s so much to like about dentistry at CCA. The flexible hours. The autonomy. The access to the latest technology. The appreciative patients. The excellent salary and benefits package.
Plus, you can leave behind all the pressures of private practice, like billing/collections, scheduling, malpractice insurance, employees, and the overwhelming paperwork.
You’ll also enjoy the bright, safe, secure working environment, much like any dental office, with trained assistants who give you the professional help and support that you need and are happy to be part of a team-oriented environment.
The Leader in the Field
As the leader in the private corrections industry, CCA is always looking for highly skilled, progressive dentists to join our strong national correctional medicine team. Correctional healthcare is one of the most unique specialties in healthcare and is considered a part of the public health continuum. Most of our nation’s offenders, housed in prisons and jails across the county, are in need of medical attention and, in fact, many have never before received dental care, which means that you’ll have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on the quality of life for many people.
Typical Responsibilities
As a CCA dentists, you’ll enjoy a high degree of autonomy to exercise initiative and independent judgment regarding inmate care. Some of your typical responsibilities duties include diagnosis and treatment of disease, injury, and malformation of teeth, gums and related oral structures. Common procedures include fillings, restorations, partials, root canals and crowns. You’ll also provide emergency care, preventive healthcare, and inmate education regarding dental health care issues. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to work together with physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, and mental health providers in true interdisciplinary care teams.
Orientation and Training
If you’re new to correctional health care, don’t worry. CCA dentists find that their skills transfer to the correctional facility environment which offers the opportunity to use many skills not used in the community setting. Of course, we provide complete and specific training and orientation program so that you will enter this specialty with confidence.
Corrections is a career path less traveled, but one that offers professional growth opportunities equal to and, in many cases, above and beyond traditional community care settings. So, if you’re seeking a truly rewarding career in which you make a difference in the health of those in need, CCA’s correctional medicine team is the place for you.