Keeping your dental practice fully staffed while maintaining the highest patient care can be challenging, especially when patient demands fluctuate and finding quality staff is difficult and time consuming. There are many advantages to utilizing a temporary dental staffing agency to help fill employment gaps, cover for staff vacancies due to vacation or illness, or have the opportunity to “try out” dental professionals before offering them full-time employment.
In many situations utilizing a temporary staffing agency makes sense and there are several benefits including:
1. Save Time
Dental staffing agencies have a broad network of candidates and connections. They have a pipeline of qualified candidates. And, they have a further reach into the community of passive candidates. This saves the practice time from reviewing hundreds of resumes, qualifying candidates, performing background checks, and other time-consuming tasks. Dental practices can access this pool anytime they need dental professionals and get qualified candidates quicker. They pay their professionals directly and charge an hourly rate, eliminating the time of on-boarding new hires. This helps balance the workload and allows dental practices to respond quicker to changing demands or staff levels.2. Reduce Costs
Although it might be an overused phrase, it’s true in this situation that “time is money.” will devote considerable time to the hiring process. This time usually takes away from other duties or impacts the ability for the practice to serve patient needs and generate revenue. In addition, hiring staff takes consistent effort with keeping a pipeline of candidates, doing interviews, and on-boarding. Dental staffing agencies provide “quick access” to qualified dental professionals and charge an hourly fee to provide a more cost-effective solution to filling open positions.3. Unbeatable Flexibility
Dental staffing agencies allow you to access qualified dental staff anytime your practice needs coverage. There are no minimum or maximum time requirements, allowing you to staff for peak periods or to fill longer-term vacancies. Most staffing service arrangements are simple—you can let them know you no longer need the temp employee’s services. But, many find that some of their temp employees are valuable enough to hire on permanently.4. Help Make Hiring Decisions Easier
Dental practices depend on staffing services to provide them with qualified workers who can meet a wide range of needs. Often, these workers become essential, permanent employees. Unlike a traditional hiring process, you are able to see how the dental professional “works” before making the hiring decision. You are able to assess their skill level, their ability to adapt to the office culture, and more importantly how they treat patients and staff…before they ever get hired.5. Handle More Patients
usually result in the inability to meet patient demand or inhibit them from growing. Having access to qualified dental professionals can often allow practices to operate at or near capacity and broaden their scope of services, all without compromising patient care.Find Staffing for Your Dental Practice
Ready to get started? Practice Staffing is a that’s backed by an experienced team. As such, we have qualified dental professionals and support staff ready to assist your practice so you can focus on your patients and growing your practice. You can request temporary staffing through our website or call (877) 556-0311 to speak with a dedicated staffing specialist.
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