Community Health Center / FQHC Dentistry Job in Bridgeport, Connecticut
This dentistry position in Bridgeport, Connecticut is offered as a Community Health Center/FQHC arrangement, one of two structures available for this role alongside a multi-specialty group option. In this setting, you would serve patients within a federally supported safety-net practice, working as an employed provider with the potential to qualify for loan-repayment support — an eligibility confirmed for this listing.
Compensation for this role can be structured in several ways, including an income guarantee, straight employment, an employment agreement with a production bonus, or a standard contract, with the financial offering listed as Open. Call is described as 1:6 or better for patient coverage, and the position carries no emergency department call responsibility.
- Practice setting: Community Health Center/FQHC (also available as Multi-Specialty Group)
- Loan assistance: Eligible
- Patient call: 1:6 or better
- ED call: No call
If community-based dental care within a safety-net environment appeals to you, this structure offers an employed pathway with defined call expectations and loan-assistance eligibility built into the position.
- Position Type: Permanent
- Recruited Specialty: Dentistry
- Does the Physician Need To Be Trained In Specialty Being Recruited: Yes
- Structure of Position: Multi-Specialty Group, Community Health Center/FQHC
- Partnership Opportunity: Unknown
- Expected Patient Call Coverage: 1:6 or better
- Expected ER Call Coverage: No call
Mission Statement The Corporation is dedicated to providing high quality, accessible medical, dental and behavioral health services to individuals and families, in the Greater Bridgeport area, especially the uninsured, who reside in the medically underserved Southwest Bridgeport community. Vision Statement Southwest Community Health Center is the provider of choice for all residents of the Southwest Bridgeport community, and is recognized as a leader in the community health field that engages in cooperative alliances with other agencies dedicated to the total well-being of the people in the community. Value Statement The Staff and Board of Directors of the Southwest Community Health Center value and are committed to: The dignity and inherent worth of every human being. Recognition of health as a complex phenomenon (with many contributing factors). The right to basic health care, regardless of ability to pay. Friendly, professional and efficient health care delivery. Excellence and quality. Creativity and innovation.
- Structure of Financial Support: Income Guarantee, Straight Employment, Employment Agreement with production bonus, Contract
- Financial Offering: Open
- Compensation Range: $193,859 - $289,646 per year
- Relocation Allowance: No
- Signing Bonus: No
- Stipends: No
- Student Loan Assistance: Yes
- Practice State: Connecticut
- Practice City: Bridgeport
- Community Size: Less than 10,000, 10,000 - 24,999, 25,000 - 49,999, 50,000 - 99,999, 100,000 - 499,999, 500,000+
- Community Details: Registered Candidates Only
- Location of Medical Training: American Medical Graduate (AMG), Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG)
- Medical Training Type: Doctor of Dental Medicine/Surgery (DDS)
- Board Certification: Board Certified, Board Eligible, Board Ineligible
- Work Status Requirements: US Citizen, Green Card, H-1 Visa
- Preferred Experience Level: Recently Trained, Experienced, Very Experienced
- Accept Local Physicians within 25 mile Radius: Yes
- Facility Type: Clinic
- Number of Providers:
- Clinic: Southwest Community Health Center
