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Dental Recruitment | Health Education Yorkshire and Humber Creating a new NHS England
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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 2026

Area 1

Area 2 

Area 3

DFT/DCT Run-Through Area 1

DFT/DCT Run-Through Area 2/3

Joint Dental Foundation and Core Training 
 

Joint Dental Foundation Core Training posts 2026-28 

Description of Post

Numbers

Comments

Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust matched with a practice in Bradford

 

2

 

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust matched with a practice in Hull

2

 

Leeds Teaching Hospitals matched with a parctice in Leeds (includes academic component)

2

Recruited via Academic Recruitment

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust matched with a practice in Dewsbury, Pontefract or Wakefield  

2

 

Rotherham Community matched with a practice in Rotherham (includes academic component)

2

Recruited via Academic Recruitment

York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust matched with a practice in York

2  

 

Dental Core Training Post Descriptions

DCT3 Oral Medicine, DMFR and Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology

 

Dental Specialty Training Post Descriptions

 

 

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