Job summary
- Main area
- General Practice
- Grade
- NHS Medical and Dental: GP Educator GP04
- Contract
- Fixed term: 11 months (until 31 March 2027)
- Hours
- Part time - 1 session per week (4 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 990-SE-EC1683-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Explorer House
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £131,321 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
GP Associate Dean - GP Courses
NHS Medical and Dental: GP Educator GP04
Our Organisation
We share the core values set out in the NHS Constitution, which all colleagues are expected to demonstrate.
We support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you and your colleagues. Talk to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement, whether that’s a job share, part time, hybrid working or another flexible pattern.
Job overview
GP Associate Dean - Courses Lead
Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2027
This role involves working across the Wessex Deanery overseeing and supporting GP Trainers.
This is an Associate Dean role for 1 sessions in the Wessex Deanery.
This is an exciting opportunity to work across the Wessex Deanery, collaborating with senior educators across the South East to lead, innovate, and optimise resources for the delivery of educator‑focused training. The role includes (but is not limited to) exploring the use of technology, addressing differential attainment, and supporting the expanding learner population.
You will also oversee the GP facilitator and lead on various trainers courses.
Main duties of the job
- Provide leadership and oversight for GP tutors and facilitators
- Lead the strategic development of existing courses and introduce new courses as required
- Support succession planning, identifying and appointing new tutors
- Review and comment on course evaluations, ensuring tutors remain up to date and are current TPDs, ADs or trainers
- Participate directly in courses as a tutor, facilitator and observer to maintain the quality of our educator training
As an Associate Dean you will be part of the extended Senior educator team and will also be expected to be part of the approval process for Trainers and Practices in Wessex. It involves working in conjunction with the Head of School and Training Programme Directors.
It will involve delivery and organisation of projects to support trainees, including induction, one-one support, and small group support.
The Associate Dean will work with the Head of School and Primary Care Dean.
This role will also work with our Educational and Clinical Supervisors to support and help them provide good quality supervision for trainees.
The role will include doing strategy work in the Wessex region with the Primary Care Dean, Head and Deputy Head of School.
Working for our organisation
NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS.
Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
In March 2025, the Government announced that NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department.
If you currently work within the NHS and if successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the process.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- General practitioner with MRCGP
- Attendance at courses aimed to support educational development (example: educator courses, Train the Trainer, etc.)
- Pro active approach and evidence of CPD within clinical role
- Applicants should either work in NHS clinical practice (or similar setting) or should have previously undertaken clinical practice within the last 2 years prior to the intended start date of the role
Desirable criteria
- Approved GP trainer or clinical supervisor
- Educational qualification e.g. Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education, Certificate or diploma in medical education or management
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- A strong sense of vision, leadership and ability to innovate.
- Strong Interpersonal communication, written and presentation skills
- Excellent leadership and organisational skills
- Commitment to continuous improvement and innovation in medical education
- Ability to support others (pastoral skills) and to help others develop and progress.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good working knowledge of the NHS, its structures and processes.
- Demonstrable track record of delivery in service and education.bodies, related NHS organisations and regulatory bodies, including an understanding of healthcare/multi-professional workforce, the Gold Guide and educational theory
- Experience of working with learners and doctors in training in an educational context.
- Experience of clinical and educational leadership including across multi-professional teams.
- Understanding of developments involving the relevant Colleges/Faculties, professional bodies, National Institute for Health Research and academic training, NHS organisations and regulatory bodies.
Desirable criteria
- Previous or current appointment as a leader in healthcare education.
- •Previous experience in the recruitment and selection of doctors / learners to educational programmes.
- Awareness of funding streams for healthcare education.
- Understanding of current health, social care and education policy.
- An understanding of healthcare/multi-professional workforce matters.
Behaviours and Values
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate NHSE’s values and commitment to the values described in the NHS Constitution.
- Commitment to own personal development.
- Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Commitment and enthusiasm for education and training
- Adaptable in approach including the flexibility to work in changing environments.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Manjiri Bodhe
- Job title
- Head of GP School
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Dr Nick Moore, Deputy Head of GP School [email protected]
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