Job summary
- Main area
- Education
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: GP Educator
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 082-MD004-0126
- Employer
- Health Education and Improvement Wales
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Tŷ Dysgu
- Town
- Cardiff
- Salary
- £139,420 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/02/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 13/02/2026
Employer heading
Postgraduate Medical Dean for Secondary Care and Foundation
NHS Medical & Dental: GP Educator
We are committed to promoting inclusion at HEIW and we welcome applications from everybody recognising the value that diversity brings to our workforce. To work in the UK, candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (ROI) nationals require sponsorship via a Skilled Worker Visa, unless they have permission to work via another route. Please note that HEIW does not currently hold a licence to appoint skilled workers from overseas by sponsoring them to work in the UK. If successful, candidates from outside of the UK or ROI would be responsible for obtaining their own sponsorship or visa to enable them to work for HEIW - Work in the UK.
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Job overview
Help shape the future of medical education in Wales
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is seeking an exceptional clinical leader to take on the role of Postgraduate Medical Dean with responsibility for secondary care and Foundation training programmes and working in close partnership with the Primary Care Dean who leads on GP training. This is a nationally influential position at the heart of medical education reform, workforce transformation, and quality improvement across NHS Wales.
As a visible and strategic leader within HEIW’s Medical Directorate, you will oversee postgraduate medical education and training for all secondary care and foundation doctors in training (resident doctors), working closely with the Primary Care Dean and senior colleagues across the multi‑professional education portfolio.
This is a unique opportunity to shape the next generation of the medical workforce, strengthen educational governance, and drive system‑wide improvement across Wales.
Please note that the post will be appointed on either the Consultant Scale (082-MD003-0126) or GP Educator Scale GP06 (082-MD004-0126). Applicants are only required to submit one application depending on contract type.
Main duties of the job
As Postgraduate Medical Dean for Secondary Care and Foundation, you will:
- Provide strategic leadership for postgraduate medical education and training across secondary care and foundation programmes in Wales
- Ensure high‑quality, safe, equitable training environments that meet GMC standards
- Lead major programmes of work in medical education, academic training, and workforce development
- Work in partnership with Health Boards, Trusts, Welsh Government, universities, Royal Colleges, and UK‑wide bodies
- Support the Medical Director in the Responsible Officer function for doctors in training
Working for our organisation
Health Education and Improvement Wales (HEIW) is the strategic workforce body for NHS Wales with statutory functions that include education and training, workforce planning, workforce development and transformation, leadership and succession planning, and careers. Our purpose is to develop a workforce that delivers excellent care to patients/service users and excellent population health. We are a Special Health Authority working closely with our partners; Social Care Wales, education providers, professional and regulatory bodies and Welsh Government.
HEIW’s is committed to developing an internal culture of choice. Our Values reflect our thoughts, feelings and beliefs in how we will, and will not, behave and treat others:
- Respect for All in every contact we have with others,
- Ideas that Improve: Harnessing creativity and continuously innovating, evaluating and improving,
- Together as a Team: Working with colleagues across NHS Wales and with partner organisations.
HEIW received the HPMA Award for Employee Engagement in 2019.
What you can expect:
- a corporate induction and 90 day Welcome itinerary,
- compassionate leadership,
- a meaningful values based performance appraisal process,
- the opportunity to impact upon health and social care services and the lives and wellbeing of the people of Wales.
Many of our colleagues and stakeholders have commented on the buzz and atmosphere we create by working together as “One HEIW Team”. Do you want to join that team?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Full specialist and license to practice with the General Medical Council
- Relevant postgraduate medical education qualification or equivalent
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of regular successful participation in appraisal
- Further evidence of management training and a commitment to ongoing professional development
- Must be or have been a practicing Hospital, Public Health Consultant or GP
- Considerable leadership and management experience at a senior level in the NHS or related sector with a demonstrable track record of delivery and change management
- Considerable experience in medical education and understanding of current landscape of medical education
- Understanding of and experience in investigating and oversight of complaints and medical fitness to practice concerns.
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of the context for postgraduate medical education in Wales and the UK, the NHS and a strong grasp of all aspects of medical career development
- Experience and understanding of leadership and delivery of under and postgraduate medical education in both primary and Secondary Care settings.
- In-depth knowledge of education training and development systems and processes in health care systems
- In-depth knowledge of how workforce development and research underpin contemporary medical practice.
- Proven track record of leading change within complex systems
- Successful initiation and facilitation of strategic partnership
- Working and alliances through excellent relationships
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable (levels 1) in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.
Other
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly and autonomously when required.
- Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Professor Tom Lawson
- Job title
- Executive Medical Director
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Panels are to be held in the weeks commencing 2nd March and 13th March. Interviews are to be held 13th March 2026.
All dates subject to change.
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