General information
Wessex Dental Training offers the National Certificate course in Portsmouth, Hampshire.
John Pounds Centre, Portsmouth
The course runs on one Saturday a month with intakes commencing in March 2012 for examination in the following May. The course follows The National Examining Board for Dental Nurses curriculum and takes place at the John Pounds Centre, Queen Street, Portsmouth, PO1 3HN.
It is essential you are employed as a dental nurse before attending this training programme!
If you are not yet employed but would like further information and/or you are interested in dental nursing please contact me using the request/contact page provided and I will get back to you.
The examination is taken in the following places;
London (split across three venues), Hastings, Reading, Birmingham and Milton Keynes. Other places currently being researched for suitability are Belfast, Basingstoke, Darlington, Derry, Dundee, Dublin, Edinburgh, Euston ( London), Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool Street (London), Waterloo (London), Peterborough, Prestatyn, & Swansea.
The course is part-time over 14 months with the formal teaching completed by March 2013 followed by pre-arranged one-to-one tutorials to support and advise good studying techniques and examination revision. The course is undertaken over this period to ensure all learners are given an equal opportunity to achieve and meet the standards. Once you have successfully passed the National Diploma Examination you will be eligible to apply for registration with the General Dental Council, but there is no guarantee this will happen.
IMPORTANT – Your GDC Registration can be affected by previous criminal offences which may or may not have anything to do with the profession directly. You have to state if you have had any convictions on your registration application. It is therefore wise to think about this before attempting any training if you have got a record. Should this be the case, please contact me directly and we can discuss possibilities and take advice directly from the GDC.
Additional guidance can be found at General Dental Council, 2006. – Standards for Dental Profesionals please follow this link
General Dental Council, 2010. – Student Fitness to Practise - please follow this link