Job overview

Applications are invited for the post of Dental Core Trainee in Othodontics/Oral Surgery.

This is a full time position to start September 2026. The post is based at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport,  The Grange University Hospital, Cwmbran and Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny, South East Wales. 

Salary to be agreed dependent on experience.

Main duties of the job

The department provides a modern service for the whole of Gwent which has a population of approximately 700,000 people. The main oral & maxillofacial unit is based at the Royal Gwent Hospital (RGH). Acute take and major inpatient maxillofacial surgery are delivered at the Grange University Hospital (GUH). Additional outpatient and minor oral surgery clinics are held at Nevill Hall Hospital, Abergavenny. The unit at RGH has modern facilities which include 6 oral surgery consultation rooms and 3 orthodontic surgeries. On site is a day case suite and two minor oral surgery operating theatres. The laboratory houses 3 technicians and is situated in the heart of the department at RGH. It is fully equipped and has state of the art facilities for 3D patient planning and printing. The department undertakes a wide range of oral & maxillofacial surgical procedures, including dentoalveolar surgery, orthognathic surgery, surgery for orofacial malignancy, trauma and salivary gland surgery including sialendoscopy. This joint orthodontic and oral surgery DCT post will allow full access to both specialties of oral surgery/OMFS and orthodontics. The timetable will be split between the specialties allowing consultant-led training, including regular consultant clinics, joint clinics including orthognathic planning and hands on oral surgery training under general and local anaesthesia.

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy which opened in October 2020.  Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.