Dental Recruitment

Recruitment to dental training programmes takes place following national timelines which are available from on the National Dental Recruitment website.

Dental training opportunities are listed below:

Specialty	Entry Level
Dental Foundation Training	DFT
Dental Core Training	DCT1, DCT2, DCT3
Dental Public Health	ST1
Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology	ST1
Oral Medicine	ST1
Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology	ST1
Oral Surgery	ST1
Orthodontics	ST1
Orthodontics	ST4
Paediatric Dentistry	ST1
Restorative Dentistry	ST1
Special Care Dentistry	ST1

Dental Foundation Training Post Descriptions

Area 1

Area 2

Area 3

DFT/DCT Run-Through

Joint Dental Foundation and Core Training

Joint Dental Foundation Core Training posts 2025-27

Location of DCT Elemnt of Post	Description of DCT Element of Post	Numbers	Comments
Bradford Royal Infirmary	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	4
Leeds General Infirmary/Leeds Dental Institute	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	2	Recruited via Academic Process
Hull Royal Infirmary	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Restorative Dentistry/Orthodontics/Community	2
York District Hospital	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	2
Pinderfields General Hospital	Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery/Oral Surgery/Orthodontics/Community	2