Complete your dental foundation training (DFT) year with enhanced financial, academic and wellbeing support.
DFT WERO is a local recruitment initiative. We are offering an enhanced support package for trainees who complete dental foundation training (DFT) in specific rural dental practices in West, North and Central Wales.
You must meet the DFT NR Person Specification for dental foundation training national recruitment process 2025-26 and in addition the Welsh specific criteria as outlined in the DFT WERO Person Specification. Please note this post is not eligible for provisional registration with the GDC.
You also must not have previously completed DFT/VT.
As this scheme aims to enhance recruitment to the Welsh workforce, you must have a pre-existing link to Wales. For example, be Welsh domiciled, speak Welsh, or have previously lived or studied in Wales. If you don’t fit with any of these criteria, but you have family or other strong links to Wales, you may be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Some dental practices in rural parts of Wales may not be a trainee’s first preference when choosing a region to work in, despite having excellent quality of training and very positive reviews from past trainees.
In order to incentivise these posts, Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) have launched a new initiative called WERO (Welsh Enhanced Recruitment Offer for Dentistry).
The full support package is listed below and includes enhanced training opportunities and a one-off rural living grant to reflect the cost of relocating to a new area and also maintain existing social contacts. We hope that this will have the added benefit of showing trainees a wonderful new area of the country they may not have previously considered working in.
Please take note of key dates and ensure you make the necessary arrangements for time off to attend key elements of the process.