Part-time dental jobs are on the rise! Today, dentists have more flexibility when building a schedule that gives them an outstanding work-life balance. If you’re considering whether part-time work could be the right fit for you, it may not be a cut-and-dried question. There are many factors to consider when deciding whether to work full or part-time. Lucky for you, Community Dental Partners has fantastic options for various working scenarios. But how does a part-time dentist job work at CDP?
It All Starts With a Conversation
When you talk to a CDP Recruiting Manager during your interview process, we’ll spend time getting to know you. We want to know your ideal dental job and how you hope your workday will look. One of the many benefits of working with a group like CDP is that you’ll have many options. We always have part-time, full-time, and travel positions for incoming dentists. When you talk with our Hiring Manager, you can give them a complete picture of the position you’re looking for.
One of the significant advantages of partnering with CDP for your dental job is that you benefit from many practices working together as a team. Our Hiring Managers are pros at matching doctors to practices where they’ll be able to thrive. We want you to have career opportunities that will keep you excited to come to work, and offering part-time options is part of how we do that!
Part-Time Dentist Jobs with CDP Make Financial Sense
When it comes to achieving superior work-life balance, it needs to be precisely that: balanced. While part-time work may sound nice because it allows you to spend more time on hobbies or with family, you need to be sure it will be sustainable financially. After all, a part-time schedule that leaves you short of paying your bills and student loan repayments won’t do you much good.
When considering potential part-time opportunities, you must consider how you’ll be compensated. For practices like CDP that pay on production, your pay won’t be about how many hours you work but how much work you put into those hours. You may be able to find part-time opportunities at any number of private practices with a semi-retired dentist at the helm. However, you may face empty spaces in your schedule and sitting around without much to do too often.
We Can Keep You Busy!
Being underutilized as a dentist—especially at the beginning of your career—can be a disaster. It means less take-home pay and fewer opportunities to grow as a practitioner. If you’re considering part-time work, you want to be sure it’s at a practice that can keep your schedule full. You also want to be sure you’ll get a variety of cases to hone your skills rather than just being fed the left-over drudge work from full-time dentists.
Working part-time with a CDP practice means you’ll have the support of our entire company behind you. That includes drawing from our pool of patients who need talented dentists like you! CDP practices don’t struggle with the ebbs and flows of patient volume like many other dental practices. We’ve built a network of practices that can support each other through lean times and take on overflow when needed.
Because we take care of everything from marketing to scheduling, we can ensure our part-time and traveling dentists have plenty to do. Best of all, you’ll never be left just with the procedures your team members don’t want to do. Unfortunately, many part-time dentists get treated like the clean-up crew, taking on tedious and menial procedures without getting any exciting or complex treatment plans on their schedule. To stay engaged and interested in your job, variety is the spice of life! Even part-time dentists need a good mix of patients on their rosters.
Cost of Living Has to Be Right for Part-Time Work!
The other side of the coin regarding how feasible part-time work may be is the cost of living. Even the best part-time schedule may not pay the bills if you live somewhere with high costs. Cost of living considerations don’t just stop at housing and food. If you have a family or think you may want one in the future, you’ll also need to consider things like childcare and educational costs. Finding a place to live in an area with excellent public or private schools that you can afford can be vital.
Because CDP practices are spread throughout many areas, we can find an excellent match for every lifestyle. We also concentrate on establishing practices where patients need us most. In many cases, we focus on rural areas with poor access to dental care. Not only is this an amazing way to improve public health through better access to care, but it also helps our dentists afford to work part-time if they prefer, as they can live where the cost of living is more affordable.
CDP’s Part-Time Dentists Get Full Benefits!
Getting more for your money by living in affordable areas is a fabulous way to make part-time hours work for you. But that’s not the only way CDP can help make sense of your part-time preferences. Community Dental Partners offers fantastic benefits to all our dentists, regardless of how many hours they work! Part-time dentists who partner with CDP get the same benefits as full-timers, a perk you won’t find in many practices.
Health insurance can be a significant expense, especially for dentists with families. Paying out of pocket for health coverage can drain your resources quickly, and often, getting insured through work is a must. The lack of health benefits is a dealbreaker for many dentists who would prefer part-time schedules.
We believe in the value of an outstanding work-life balance. Balance helps our dentists stay energized and engaged in their jobs and prevents burnout. It’s critical to career longevity, too! To help our doctors afford a schedule that works for them, we extend benefits like health coverage to everyone, including those with part-time schedules.
But our benefits packages don’t stop at health coverage, either. We also offer stipends for Continuing Education (CE). As a part-time dentist with CDP, you’ll be entitled to monthly allowances for medical, dental, and vision benefits. We cover malpractice insurance for all our dentists, too!
Great benefits, a full schedule, and plenty of locations to choose from are just a few of the ways Community Dental Partners makes part-time work feasible for dentists who want it. We understand that many doctors are juggling their careers with the demands of raising a family or pursuing other passions. And we’re all about getting the most out of all aspects of your life! Schedule a call with a Hiring Manager to learn more about part-time opportunities and an exciting career with CDP!
