For community health centres
A closed chair here is not deferred revenue
When a community clinic loses a hygienist, the cost is measured in people who go without care. WORKFORCE keeps dental operatories at community health centres and non-profit clinics covered, at a rate you can budget and with professionals who come back.
Who you serve
People without private coverage, newcomers, seniors, and low-income households who have often gone years between appointments.
How you are funded
Envelope funding and salaried teams rather than fee-for-service, so an unplanned vacancy cannot simply be absorbed.
What that does to staffing
Coverage has to be predictable in cost and steady in who turns up, because the population you serve does not tolerate churn well.
Two provinces, two systems
Community health works differently in BC and Ontario
Community health centre is not a single national model. Funding, governance, and where dental sits inside the organisation all differ by province, so we do not pretend one approach covers both.
British Columbia
Community health centres and non-profit dental clinics in BC operate through a mix of provincial programs and regional health authority arrangements, so the model varies more from one clinic to the next than it does in Ontario. We staff to the clinic in front of us rather than to an assumed structure.
Markets we staff
- Vancouver
- Surrey
- Burnaby
- Richmond
- Coquitlam
- Victoria
- Langley
- Kelowna
- Abbotsford
- Nanaimo
- Kamloops
Ontario
Ontario CHCs are an established part of primary care, governed by community boards and staffed by salaried interprofessional teams. Dental sits alongside primary care rather than apart from it, which changes both the schedule and the kind of professional who does well there.
Markets we staff
- Toronto
- Ottawa
- Mississauga
- Hamilton
- Brampton
- Markham
- Vaughan
- Kitchener
- London
- Oshawa
- Windsor
The demand side
More people are eligible for dental care than at any point in recent memory, and community clinics are absorbing a large share of them.
Expanded public dental coverage has brought patients into clinics who have not sat in a chair in years, and they arrive needing more than a recall appointment. Capacity, not demand, is now the constraint. Coverage that can be booked in advance and repeated week to week is worth more to a community clinic than a service that only answers emergencies.
What community clinics ask us for
- Cost you can put against a budget line
Temporary coverage is quoted as one all-in hourly rate that carries the wage, payroll, and insurance. Permanent placements carry a fee that varies by market and is quoted before anything is agreed.
How pricing works- Documentation for your hiring process
Your hiring and credentialing process is yours, and it answers to your board and your health authority. We provide the registration details, insurance certificates, and records your review asks for, so nobody is chasing a professional for paperwork.
How verification works- Familiar faces where you can get them
Professionals who have worked your clinic can be offered your shifts first, which is the part we control. Whether they take the date is theirs, so continuity is something to build toward rather than something to schedule around. For a patient who took months to trust the chair, it is worth the effort.
How coverage works- No new employment obligations
Every temporary professional is our T4 employee. Payroll, source deductions, and insurance sit with us on temp placements, so covering a chair does not add a position to your organisation.
Who employs the professional
Tell us about your clinic
Send us your sites and the hours you need covered, and we will tell you plainly what is available in your area and what it costs.