Welcome to Vocational Training
“Public Services Delivery Scotland take newly qualified practitioners, and support their progression to the level where they can practice safe and independent patient care.”
DVT Assessment Deadline Dates
Please click the image on the left or the link below to access the DVT Assessment deadline dates for 2026-2027.
VT Organisational Chart
Postgraduate Dental Dean Lee Savarrio | ||
Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean Gillian Nevin | ||
Assistant Postgraduate Dean Billy Cameron | Assistant Postgraduate Dean Andrew Leitch | Assistant Postgraduate Dean Fiona McFadzean |
| DVT Advisers | DVT Advisers | DVT Advisers |
| John Hyland | Ross Ellison | Chris Ogle |
| Andrew MacKinnon | Edward Bateman | Iain Henderson |
| Victoria Golding | Amro Alkado | Michael Macmillan |
| Terri Hamilton | Catherine Jones | Gordon Fletcher |
| Gavin McLellan | ||
| Martin McKinstry | ||
| TVT Adviser | LDFT Adviser | |
| Laura Arch | Claire Harrison |
Deans
Postgraduate Dental Dean - Lee Savarrio Lee.Savarrio@nhs.scot
Associate Postgraduate Dental Dean - Gillian Nevin gillian.nevin@nhs.scot
Assistant Postgraduate Deans -
Andrew Leitch (North and North-East) andrew.leitch@nhs.scot
Billy Cameron (West) william.cameron@nhs.scot
Fiona McFadzean (East and South East) fiona.mcfadzean@nhs.scot
DVT, TVT and LDFT Advisers
North
- North 1 - Ross Ellison ross.ellison@nhs.scot
- North 2 - Edward Bateman edward.bateman1@nhs.scot
North East
- North East - Amro Alkado amro.alkado@nhs.scot
East
- East DVT - Gordon Fletcher gordon.fletcher@nhs.scot
South East
- South East 1 - Chris Ogle chris.ogle@nhs.scot
- South East 2 - Iain Henderson Iain.Henderson@nhs.scot
- South East 3 - Michael Macmillan michael.macmillan1@nhs.scot
West
- West 1 - John Hyland john.hyland@nhs.scot
- West 2 - Andrew MacKinnon andrew.mackinnon@nhs.scot
- West 3 - Victoria Golding victoria.golding@nhs.scot
- West 4 - Terri Hamilton terri.hamilton3@nhs.scot
- West 5 - Gavin McLellan gavin.mclellan@nhs.scot
- West 6 - Martin McKinstry martin.mckinstry@nhs.scot
- West Block - Catherine Jones Catherine.Jones@nhs.scot
TVT
- TVT - Laura Arch laura.arch1@nhs.scot
LDFT
- East LDFT - Claire Harrison claire.harrison2@nhs.scot
Business Support
Business Manager Melodye Rennie melodye.rennie@nhs.scot
Senior Administrative Officer bernadette.brison2@nhs.scot
Regional VT Support
- Aberdeen : adec@nes.scot.nhs.uk
- Dundee : vtadmin.east@nes.scot.nhs.uk
- Edinburgh : nes.SEVTadmin@nhs.scot
- Inverness : nes.NVTadmin@nhs.scot
- Glasgow : vthub@nes.scot.nhs.uk
- VT Hub : vthub@nes.scot.nhs.uk
Dental Assessment Unit (DAU)
The DAU deals with all assessment queries and administers Turas Training Portfolio.
- DAU Team dental.assessment@nes.scot.nhs.uk
- Senior Admin Officer Amanda Dean
- Admin Officer Gavin McMillan
START Programme
START Co-ordinator, and Specialist Lead: Andrew Leitch start.training@nes.scot.nhs.uk
START Administrator: Janice Cairns start.training@nes.scot.nhs.uk
Determination X
All Determination X applications and queries should be sent to:
Trainee and Trainer Recruitment
All enquiries regarding Trainee and Trainer Recruitment should be sent via the Dental Recruitment service desk at the following link:
Recruitment Query - HR Trainee Services - Jira Service Management (atlassian.net)