Specialty Registrar- Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

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A Vacancy at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a fast paced, challenging and busy specialty to improve understanding and experience in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. These appointments are initially for 12 months and will be based mainly at Northwick Park Hospital. It requires motivated doctors with some Oral & Maxillofacial surgery experience to work with other trainee doctors and consultants to care for the emergency and elective patients within OMFS and Head & Neck. A broad based knowledge in all aspects of OMFS is beneficial but the weekly timetable can be adjusted considering the experience of the successful candidate and the need of the service.

The successful candidate will work as a member of the middle grade team who all are both medically and dentally qualified doctors supporting services across the network and participating in 2nd call rota.

OMFS Service

The London North West Regional Maxillofacial Unit opened its doors at Northwick Park Hospital in May 2006. This is a Specialist Regional In-Patient Service with dedicated nursing and Critical Care support. In addition there is a prosthodontic and vibrant regional orthodontic service.

There is a state of the art maxillofacial and orthodontic laboratory, administrative wing and offices for Oral & Maxillofacial consultants, secretaries and junior doctors. Outpatients facilities are of the latest designs and have PACs associated oral and facial imaging equipment including X-ray and ultrasound imaging and facilities for nasendoscopy.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK

• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease

• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice

• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.  

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

 

Please see read the attached Job description for more details about the post.

Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery in the Trust

The management structure of the Trust encompasses a divisional structure in which OMFS is encompassed in the Head and Neck Division together with Orthodontics, Ophthalmology, ENT and Audiology, Community Dentistry and Oral Surgery The directorates are financially autonomous, span both sites and have their own Clinical Director and Service Manager. 

The clinical team is made up of 10 Consultants who specialise in H&N cancer, major trauma and skin cancer, as well as orthognathic and TMJ surgery. We have a team of Associate Specialists and Staff Grades and Middle Grades and Junior Doctors who support our periphery sites as well as the 1st and 2nd on-call rota.

This advert closes on Friday 6 Nov 2026