Dental Specialty Training posts NHS England working across the North West
Dental ARCPs 2025
All ARCPS, that are not part of a national or regional process will be held 1 September 2025.
Oral Medicine/DMFR and Oral Pathology will be a national process, details will be confirmed by national panels.
Dental Specialty Training
These posts are advertised via Oriel when they become vacant. Appointment is by competitive interview and a clinical competency assessment and the structure and content of the posts will comply with the relevant SAC recommendations and the “Dental Gold Guide”
The Dental Gold Guide and accompanying forms can be accessed on the COPDEND WEBSITE
Vacancies for September 2026 Cohort will be added to this webiste in due course
Posts are annually assessed using the ACRP process. Trainee online e-portfolio:https://www.iscp.ac.uk/
The following dental specialty training is currently undertaken in NHSE NW:
- Dental Public Health
- Dental Radiology
- Endodontics
- Oral Medicine
- Orthodontics
- Oral Pathology
- Oral Surgery
- Paediatric Dentistry
- Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics (part-time four year self-funded posts)
- Restorative Dentistry and monospecs
- Special Care Dentistry
Period of Grace
Trainee who wish to take a period of grace must complete the: Period of Grace Intent Form
Useful Links
COPDEND
Dental Specialty Recruitment:
HEE NW Dental Specialty Contacts