OMFS Dental Core Trainee

Job overview

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HEE team/Deanery name

Health Education Thames Valley

Health Education Wessex

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Type of training post

DCT- OMFS/Oral Surgery/Ortho/Rest Dent

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Rotational Post information

Rotations are every or months to allow exposure to most clinics.

Each DCT will have a day in theatre, a day on-call (being the main bleep holder from :-:), a weekly minor oral surgery session and out-patient attendance on OMFS, Orthodontic, Restorative and Oral Medicine clinics. Some rotations allow attendance on MDT clinics eg dentoalveolar, Orthognathic.

One rotation allows involves a day at Horton Hospital, Banbury with a session in theatre (GA Dentoalveolar Day-case surgery) and OMFS out-patient clinic.

At the Churchill Hospital, trainees will also have the opportunity to experience care at the Blenheim Head & Neck Unit/Oxford Centre for Head & Neck Oncology. There is support from McMillan Dental Therapists.

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Training unit/location/s

The John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford (main base).

Churchill Hospital, Oxford.

Horton Hospital, Banbury.

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Full address of training units where training will take place

The John Radcliffe Hospital

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Headley Way

Headington

Oxford

OX DU

The Churchill Hospital

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Old Road

Headington

Oxford

OX LE

The Horton General Hospital

Oxford Road

Banbury

OX AL

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Description of the training post

A comprehensive ‘level-appropriate’ training and experience of the hospital-based specialties of OMFS, Orthodontics and Restorative Dentistry. 

There is an emphasis on team-working and communication, to deliver the most-appropriate care to our patients. Training in evidence-based dentistry and clinical problem solving is provided.

There is also training and active participation in clinical and process audit and clinical governance to inform safe and effective practice. Trainees will attend monthly audit and clinical governance meetings.

The DCT will gain practical experience of patient care in a hospital setting, including in-patient treatment under general anaesthesia. The DCT will have exposure to dento-alveolar surgery under local anaesthetic (MOS clinics) and GA with a dedicated weekly dentoalveolar GA list at the Horton General Hospital. The DCT may be exposed to the management of acute dental trauma whilst on-call.

The DCT will also gain experience of Orthodontic assessment and management of malocclusion. There will be opportunity for hands-on orthodontic treatments and exposure to the multii-disciplinary Hypodontia Clinic.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. 

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. 

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.  

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the .