We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English. Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments OR SUPPORT needed. If you need any documents in a larger font or a different format (such as braille) please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3 OR EMAIL abb.vacancyrequests@wales.nhs.uk If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly. Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form. Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working. Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process Job Overview Applications are invited for the post of Dental Core Trainee in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. 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