Dentist, Nanaimo Correctional Centre Correctional Health Services - BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

Dentist – Nanaimo Correctional Centre

Correctional Health Services

BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services

1-2 days per month.

Nanaimo, BC

Are you an accomplished Dentist, eager to provide services to a vulnerable and often overlooked clientele? Correctional Health Services, part of BC Mental Health and Substance Use Services, a program of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA), has recently absorbed dentistry into its provision of care. Correctional Health Services provides dedicated health care services to clients within British Columbia’s ten provincial correctional centres.

As a Dentist at Nanaimo Correctional Centre, you will provide quality dental care to clients who may be in the most need. You will be a member of an interdisciplinary team made up of physicians, nurses, mental health and substance use specialists, pharmacists, and other professionals who are passionate about providing health care to all.

What you’ll do

• Examine, diagnose and treat clients.
• Maintain and review individual clients’ dental records and x-rays and enter information concerning assessments, diagnosis and treatment into PAC.
• Prescribe medications for dental conditions as needed.
• Make required arrangements, requests or referrals to dental specialists regarding the examination, diagnosis, or treatment of clients.
• Coordinate services of outside facilities when the centre’s facilities are inadequate for necessary examination, diagnosis or treatment of a client with a dental disease.
• Provide after-hours telephone consultation services to health care personnel; and as required, travel to the health care centre to attend to dental emergencies outside of regular business hours.
• Obtain approval from the Medical Director prior to undertaking any dental care not deemed to be essential, such as bridges, gold fillings, extensive or elective oral surgery, braces, crown, dentures,, orthodontics, prosthetics, repairs, root canal therapy, dental lab fees and outside services.
• Consult in case management with PHSA.
• Participate in conference calls or in-service sessions.
• Provide advice to PHSA and the Medical Director regarding the provision of dental services to clients.
• Advise and assist PHSA and the Medical Director regarding the drafting and/or amendment of procedures and standards of dental services.
• Ensure that PHSA health care personnel maintain adequate medical and dental supplies for the operation of clinics.
• Provide opinion and cost estimates regarding the necessity of dental prosthetics, repairs, dental surgery and other emergency or elective dental procedures.

What you bring

• Degree in Dentistry from an accredited academic institution.
• Certification or eligibility for certification with the Royal College of Dentists of Canada.
• Active license in good standing with the College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia.

A Certified Dental Assistant (CDA) could be provided to accompany you on-site.

What we do

BC Mental Health & Substance Use Services (BCMHSUS), a program of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) cares for people with complex mental health and substance use challenges. PHSA is mandated to improve the quality and continuity of care for clients across the province during their time in correctional facilities and as they reintegrate into the community. This will help to improve access to primary health care, as well as mental health and substance use support for inmates; key needs that have been identified not just in BC, but internationally.

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Create equity – Be courageous.

PHSA and BCMHSUS are committed to anti-racism and equity in our hiring and employment practices. With learning and compassion, we are addressing existing inequities and barriers throughout our systems. PHSA is seeking to create a diverse workforce and to establish an inclusive and culturally safe environment. We invite applications and enquiries from all people, particularly those belonging to the historically, systemically, and/or persistently excluded groups identified under the B.C. Human Rights Code.

One of PHSA’s North Star priorities is to eradicate Indigenous-specific racism, which includes ongoing commitments to Indigenous recruitment and employee experience as well as dismantling barriers to health care employment at every level. We welcome Indigenous individuals to apply and/or contact the Sanya’k̓ula Team (Indigenous Recruitment & Employee Experience) for support at indigenous.employment@phsa.ca.

Indigenous-specific anti-racism initiatives are rooted in addressing the unique forms of discrimination, historical and ongoing injustices, and exclusion faced by Indigenous peoples. These initiatives align with an Indigenous rights-based approach, recognizing the inherent rights and title of BC First Nations and self-determination of all First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities. PHSA is mandated to uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents including the Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.