Job summary
- Main area
- General Practice
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: GP Educator GP03
- Contract
- Fixed term: 4 months (until 31 March 2027)
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-SE-EC6520-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Explorer House
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- £131,827 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
GP Associate Dean for Expansion
NHS Medical & Dental: GP Educator GP03
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.
As part of our commitment to improving patient safety and maintaining safe and trusted services, all successful candidates will be subject to Baseline Personnel Security Screening (BPSS), which includes a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. By submitting your application, you are confirming your agreement to these checks being undertaken as part of the recruitment process.
Anyone who has received a voluntary or compulsory redundancy payment from NHS England since the start of the 2026/27 financial year is not eligible to apply.
Job overview
This role involves working across the Wessex Deanery enabling the Expansion of GP training programmes and supporting GP trainees. There is a total of 3 sessions divided as below.
This is an Associate Dean role for 2 sessions in the Wessex patch covering new innovative programmes such as Structured Learning, recruitment issues, including wider placements and capacity, ITPs in your patch, trainer and trainee queries, line management of your TPDs, strategy, and leadership activities within the GP school.
This is also an Associate Dean role for 1 session covering ARCP and chairing panels. You will line manage any TPDs in ARCP roles and oversee the ARCP panels.
Main duties of the job
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.
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.
We cannot offer visa sponsorship for external candidates.
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
- Registered Medical Practitioner with a current licence to practise or hold a Certificate of Completion of Training
- Membership/Fellowship of a College, Faculty or professional association relevant to the advertised role’s Specialty
- 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
- Applicants, regardless of professional background, must have a track record of professionalism in line with the principles set out in Good Medical Practice and compatible with appointment in a senior clinical educator role
- Attendance at courses aimed to support educational development
- Active involvement in, and up to date with, NHS appraisal processes
- On the National Performer’s List (unless solely undertaking an educational management role)
Desirable criteria
- Higher educational qualification such as a postgraduate certificate, diploma or Master’s in education
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- A strong sense of vision, leadership and ability to innovate.
- Proven negotiation skills
- Politically astute with an ability to sensitively manage complexity and uncertainty
- Ability to critically appraise and problem solve whilst maintaining objectivity
- Strong Interpersonal communication, written and presentation skills
- Ability to quickly establish personal and professional credibility with colleagues and other key stakeholders
- Proven organisational and time management skills
- 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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