Using Oriel to apply and preference

Oriel is the UK-wide system used to recruit to postgraduate dental training posts.

Oriel is used to apply to programmes, receive alerts about deadlines and place posts in order of preference.

Registering for an Oriel account

To register:

  • Visit the Oriel homepage
  • Choose a staff group from the options.
  • Click/tap the Register option.
  • Complete all your personal details (doing so at this stage means you will not need to fill them in for every separate application you submit)
  • Check you receive a confirmation email within 15 minutes

Important: Important

Oriel will notify you about deadlines, interviews and offers using your registered email address, so make sure to register with an email address you access regularly and make sure [email protected] is on your safe senders list.

It is good practice not to rely solely on email alerts during the recruitment process. Check the messages section of your Oriel account regularly to make sure you do not miss any important alerts about your application.

Applying for Specialty Training

Vacancies

'Vacancy' is the term used for all the posts available within a specialty's training programme. For example, there may be 10 Oral Surgery Specialty Training posts available across the UK, but Oriel will show this as a single Oral Surgery vacancy. 

Applicants need only apply once to each vacancy (programme).

Applying for a specialty vacancy

To apply, follow these steps.

  1. Log in to Oriel.
  2. Click/tap Vacancies in the left-hand navigation.
  3. In the "I am applying for" field, choose Dental.
  4. In the "Training programme" field, choose the Specialty Training programme you wish to apply for.

Once selected, in the right-hand pane, you’ll be able to:

  • See more information about the training programme (vacancy)
  • View the application form
  • Apply.

Choose Apply to fill in the application form. If you’ve entered your personal details as part of your Oriel profile, some of them will be pre-filled on the application.

Each time you go to the next page in your application, the information you’ve already entered will be saved. You can return to the application at any time, as long as the submission deadline has not passed.

Once you've submitted your application, you will not be able to make any changes, except to update your own contact and referee details.

Preferencing in Oriel

After the application closing date, you’ll receive a message through Oriel informing you of the posts on offer in the vacancy(ies) you have applied for. You'll be invited to preference them. This means ranking them according to which you’d most like to be appointed to. 

For information on preferencing and the impact your choices may have, please see the advice on the Prefencing page. 

Page last reviewed: 20 December 2021