Dental Specialty Training recruitment

• Overview of Dental Specialty Training

  How specialising can benefit you and help you progress your career

• Recruitment timeline

  The key application dates and how the interview process works

• Eligibility

  The previous experience you need to be appointed to a Dental Specialty Training post

• Applying

  Check you're eligible and find out how to apply

• Shortlisting

  Everything you need to know about the shortlisting process

• Interviews

  Find out everything you need to know about interviews and selection centres

• Preferencing

  What posts are available and how you'll put them in order of preference

• Offers and feedback

  How you'll receive offers and feedback and how you can respond

• Person specifications

  Check your eligibility against the person specification for your Dental Specialty programme

• Documents to support your application

  Documents you may need for your application

• DST Posts

  See all DST posts by specialty across the UK

• Contact us

  Key contact information

• Specialty Recruitment Interview Schedule 2024

  Planned interview dates for dental specialty recruitment taking place in 2024

• Help us improve your experience

  Find out how we are working with Lagom Strategy Ltd to improve your experience of using Oriel

• News

  Find out the latest news

There are 13 dental specialties recognised by the General Dental Council (GDC).

Currently, NHS England does not offer any training in Oral Microbiology.

• Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology

• Dental Public Health

• Endodontics

• Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology

• Oral Medicine

• Oral Microbiology

• Oral Surgery

• Orthodontics (ST1)

• Orthodontics (ST4)

• Paediatric Dentistry (ST1)

• Paediatric Dentistry (ST4)

• Periodontics

• Prosthodontics

• Restorative Dentistry

• Special Care Dentistry

• Academic Clinical Fellowships (ACFs)

  Clinical Dental Core and Specialty Training posts that incorporate academic training

• Clinical Lectureships (CLs)

  A post-doctoral award to help dentists establish themselves as researchers and leaders

• Complaints

  Find out how to make a confidential complaint

• Fitness to Practise

  How to make a Fitness to Practise declaration and find the right contact for your training programme

• Flexible training opportunities

  Options for Dental Core or Specialty applicants who are unable to work full time

• Qpercom Recruit

  A number of virtual inteviews will be conducted using Qpercom Recruit

• Overseas applicants

  Guidance for overseas applicants

• Special circumstances

  Find out how to apply to special circumstances when applying for Dental Specialty Training (DST)

• Support for applicants

  The support you'll get during the recruitment process

• Using Oriel to apply and preference

  Guidance on using Oriel to complete your application form and preference posts

• Publications

  Browse reports and guidance