Initial Posting Date:

11/12/2025

Application Deadline:

11/23/2025

Agency:

Department of Corrections

Salary Range:

$19,731 - $22,671

Position Type:

Employee

Position Title:

Dentist (Pendleton / Umatilla) limited duration part-time opportunity

Job Description:

Dentist (Pendleton / Umatilla) limited duration part-time opportunity

Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution – Pendleton, Oregon

Two Rivers Correctional Institution – Umatilla, Oregon  

Oregon Department of Corrections

Join our elite team of well-trained, highly qualified Health Services professionals dedicated to delivering comprehensive dental care in a correctional setting. Correctional dentistry offers an excellent alternative to an over-demanding private practice, or employment with corporations concerned more about profit than your wellbeing. Consider joining our dental teams who have already found a rewarding job opportunity with flexible schedules, excellent dental facilities, grateful patients, and an abundance of camaraderie with other health care professionals.

The Oregon Department of Corrections is hiring for a Dentist limited duration part-time for one year, though may be extended or decreased due to business need, to go between Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution (EOCI) in Pendleton and Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Oregon. Pay listed above is for a full-time employee, salary would range by hours worked. This recruitment will be used to establish a list of qualified applicants and could be used to fill future vacancies.

About the Job – Your Role

You will provide professional chairside dental procedures, consistent with community standard in a correctional setting to an adult in custody population. You will adhere to established time frames for procedures.

This position is represented by American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). This position may be eligible for Police & Fire (P&F) benefits through Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), as defined by statute.

Minimum Qualifications

You must have a current unencumbered Dentist's license issued by the Oregon Board of Dentistry at the time of appointment.

The department prefers that licensees have had no previous discipline with the Oregon Board of Dentistry, or with Boards of any other states.

Requested Skills

• Limited and comprehensive oral evaluation
• Treatment planning
• Radiology
• Preventative dentistry
• Periodontal exam and treatment, excluding periodontal surgery
• Restorative dentistry
• Must be proficient performing extractions, simple and surgical, including flap procedures with suture placement
• Fixed and removable prosthodontics
• Prescribing of appropriate medication

Desired Attributes

• Previous service within an oral and maxillofacial internship program and/or extensive experience performing oral surgery procedures (excluding complicated third molar impactions)
• Previous experience working as a dentist in corrections
• Excellent communication skills with patients and staff
• Solid work et