Dental House Officers - 2027 Training Year

Advance your career as a Dental House Officer in the Auckland Region!

You will have the opportunity to work and gain clinical experience in a busy hospital environment providing care to both out-patient and in-patients. You will rotate in teams between the Auckland Regional Hospital & Specialist Dentistry team and the Oral & Maxillofacial service in the delivery of dental and maxillofacial care. Senior clinicians will support you as you gain experience in a broad range of clinical dentistry:

• Management of maxillofacial and dental trauma.

• Dental care for medically complex patients.

• Paediatric dentistry.

• Oral medicine and pathology.

• Oral surgery.

  
   

This practical and broad range of experience is a great foundation for private practice dentistry or future specialist study. You will be part of a team of dental house officers and registrar working across a number of hospital facilities within Auckland (Middlemore, Auckland and Starship Hospitals, Greenlane Clinical Centre and Buckland Road Dental Centre)

We are now recruiting Dental House Officers starting on 11 January 2027 for Orientation week following the start date 18 January 2027 in the Auckland region. We are very keen to hear from interested applicants. 1st, 2nd and 3rd year applications are welcome.

As part of the application process, the following documents need to be uploaded:

Please note that if ALL the documents below are not included in your application, you will not be considered for a position, and the application will be considered as incomplete.

Documents: Please upload the following and complete the application form

1.     Curriculum Vitae (CV)

2.     Cover Letter (CL)

Certified/Notarized Documents: We require the following documents from all applicants to be considered complete application

 Documents can only be certified by a Justice of the Peace, Notary Public, Solicitor or NZ Police Officer.

1.     Academic Transcript with qualification of BDS in progress

2.     Photo ID page of current passport (and Visa if applicable)

3.     Current full driver's license (or obtain prior to starting) Please discuss with Recruitment Consultant if any concerns.

4.     Any post-graduate qualifications

5.     Current ACLS- NZRC Core Immediate CPR certificate (Level 8 or equivalent), but prefer NZRC CORE Advanced (if successful, you can complete this course prior to start)

6.     If you have lived overseas - You will need to have provided police certificates or have started the process of requesting a copy of police certificates from all countries of citizenship and from any other country in which you have lived for one or more years within the last ten years. (not NZ as we will request this)