Job summary
- Main area
- Dental
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: GP Educator - GP05
- Contract
- Fixed term: 17 months (Secondment only for current NHS employees) (Until 31 October 2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 0.56 session per week (22.5 hours per week)
- Job ref
- 990-SW-14622-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Any South West Office Location
- Town
- Taunton, Bristol or Plymouth
- Salary
- £130,074 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Dental Workforce Dean
NHS Medical & Dental: GP Educator - GP05
Our Organisation
The NHS is building a culture that is positive, compassionate and inclusive – and we all have our part to play.
As employers we are committed to protecting and promoting the physical and mental health and wellbeing of all our colleagues. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice, while helping our colleagues to deliver high quality services for our patients and communities.
As a flexible employer, we want to support you to work in a way that is best for the NHS, our patients and you. 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. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
We are looking to recruit to the post of Dental Workforce Dean. This role is a substantive role. The post is 22.5 hours per week.
The role of the Dental Workforce Dean is to work with and support the NHS England Regional Postgraduate Dean and Regional Director of Workforce in leading the delivery of a wide range of functions that exist to deliver a dental workforce, aligned to the NHS England mandate.
Main duties of the job
The Dental Workforce Dean is professionally and managerially accountable to the Regional Postgraduate Dean. The role will focus upon the delivery and improvement of learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring effective educational outcomes, both now and in the future. The role is evolving and will also focus on whole workforce transformation and developing multi-professional links as well as innovative ways of curriculum delivery and workforce well-being strategies.
Working for our organisation
The NHS England board have set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work and we will achieve this purpose by:
- Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities.
- Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential.
- Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
- Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
- Delivering value for money.
If you would like to know more or require further information, please visit https://www.england.nhs.uk/.
Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in-person.
If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process, including; statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To support the Postgraduate Dean, Dental workforce Dean works across the spectrum of Dental health and, within the context of a team, so that the provision of education reflects changing service models. This will deliver an integrated workforce comprising individuals from a spectrum of professional and other backgrounds.
Although the main role is to lead and develop Postgraduate Dental training. all senior clinicians within NHSE may have wider roles and projects as agreed with the Postgraduate Dean and Regional Workforce Director.
Please refer to the job description attached to view the person specification.
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
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Primary Dental qualification
- Registration with the General Dental Council
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in education, training, leadership or clinical management
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Senior clinical leadership role
- Evidence of being able to manage a team to effectively deliver programmes
- Evidence of working at a strategic level within healthcare
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of financial systems
- Management of professional standards concerns
- Clear understanding of dental professional training
Attitudes and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate excellent communication skills with colleagues and stakeholders
- Ability to clearly demonstrate a commitment to fairness and equity of access for all
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Geoff Smith
- Job title
- Regional Postgraduate Dean
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Alternatively please contact:
Debi Reilly
Director of Workforce, Training and Education (South West)
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