Job summary
- Main area
- Medical & Dental
- Grade
- Consultant
- Contract
- Secondment: 10 months (until 31st March 2027)
- Hours
- Part time - 4 sessions per week (16 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 990-SE-EC3551-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Explorer House
- Town
- Southampton
- Salary
- Salary paid in line with sessional payments
- Closing
- 07/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Dean
Consultant
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
The role of the AD helps support the Postgraduate Dean in embracing corporate, statutory and non-statutory functions, aligning with the NHSE mandate. The role is focused firmly upon improving patient and learner safety and experience and ensuring effective educational outcomes.
Main duties of the job
The AD is professionally and managerially accountable to the Postgraduate Dean and their deputies.
The exact balance of this role, and how it co-ordinates with other Associate Deans will be considered through the recruitment process.
Leadership
- To work with the Postgraduate Dean:
- To provide effective clinical educator leadership, contributing to the strategic development of the NHSE Workforce, Training and Education Directorate.
- To contribute to the vision of the local NHS and to enhance patient care by providing leadership and direction with respect to the quality of education and training.
Quality and safety
· To work closely with the Postgraduate Dean and deputies to implement the NHSE Quality Framework.
Programme Management
· Specialty-specific matters and trainee/trainer concerns.
· Postgraduate programme management, including assessments, progression, rotations, support and remediation, OOP management, trainee management, careers support, less than full- time training, inter-deanery transfer, academic training, study leave and relocation, less than full time, supported return to training, flexible portfolio training along with other related work-streams.
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 role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.
Secondments
Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.
Person specification
Person Specification
Essential criteria
- Primary Clinical healthcare qualification
- Evidence of commitment to Continuous Professional Development
- Holds or is working towards a Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education
- Holds a Licence to Practice
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable Leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with learners or doctors in training in an educational context
- Experience of clinical and educational leadership and innovation, including managing a multi-professional team
- Understanding of developments involving the relevant
- Understanding of developments involving the relevant Colleges/Faculties, professional bodies, related NHS organisations and regulatory bodies
- Understanding of the workforce transformation agenda
Desirable criteria
- Previous or current appointment as a leader in healthcare education
- Understanding of current health, social care and education policy
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Politically astute with an ability to sensitively manage complexity and uncertainty
- Ability to quickly establish personal and professional credibility with colleagues and other key stakeholders
- Strong interpersonal, communication, written and presentation skills
- Ability to problem solve and maintain objectivity and innovate
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrable leadership skills and an ability to influence and motivate others
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Aware of the impact of own behaviour on others
- Driven by the needs of patients and service users
- Challenges bias, prejudice and intolerance if appropriate or brings it to the attention of a manager
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Phil Rushton
- Job title
- Locality Dean
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07702 151219
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