Deciding to engage with a temporary staffing firm to fill vacant positions or add additional staff can be a difficult decision. Before moving forward, it is important to review several situations where temporary dental staffing can benefit your practice.
Keep reading to learn more about how temporary and temp-to-hire staffing can streamline your busy dental office.
Reduce Overhead Costs
One reason why dental practices struggle to maintain a fully-staffed state is due to time and cost. Hiring a professional full-time staff is expensive and hard to manage when appointments are constant. Unfortunately, this lack of permanent staff members can result in an overworked or overburdened team and costly turnover. Solve the burnout problem by bringing in to help reduce stress and fill open positions. Temporary dental professionals provide consistent stability and temporary dental staffing agencies can connect you with professionals looking for long term opportunities. This will save you time, money, and hopefully improve retention.Avoid Turning Patients Away
Another hidden issue behind shortages in dental offices is related to the impact the business has on obtaining new patients. Many patients new to a practice are searching online and requesting appointments. If they don’t get an appointment at a reasonable time, they will likely move on to a different location. No new patients means no growth in your practice. By bringing in temporary staff, you can provide additional appointment times, staff vacant rooms, and increase patient counts. New dental patients often become regular patients that return in the future for additional care. However, if you cannot meet your market’s demand for services, you will lose out on potential long-term revenue.Balance Workloads
An overlooked is the ability to balance workloads across permanent and temporary staff. After all, it is not unusual for a practice to experience fluctuations in patient loads depending on many factors including time of year, population growth, aging, etc. Utilizing a temporary dental staffing agency allows you to keep a core permanent staff while also having flexible temporary team members that you can hire during peak times. This approach has been proven to be more cost effective than keeping an under or overworked staff. Professional dental staffing can be turned “on” and “off” depending on your practice needs through the year.Access to Talent
Temporary staffing agencies are actively recruiting every day for qualified professionals and often have vast pools of individuals available for hire. Though many may not be actively looking or responding to job postings, a majority are eager to be placed. Most dental practices recruit periodically, usually only to add new staff or when someone leaves. Each time a practice’s recruiting efforts are restarted, it can be both time consuming and costly. By engaging a temporary staffing agency, you can access talent immediately and fill positions quickly. Bonus: Before you decide to hire, you will be able to assess that professional in a “work setting” and fees paid to an agency are often less than the internal cost of hiring someone.Call Our Staffing Specialists Today
Practice Staffing is a that specializes in placing qualified professionals inside of in-demand practices. You’ll find that with the help of temporary dental staff, your practice is able to better manage its workload and retain more patients. Request temporary staffing today online or call (877) 556-0311.
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