Job summary
- Main area
- Education Delivery
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (Until 31st October 2026)
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week (0.60 FTE / 24 hours per week worked flexibly)
- Job ref
- 990-SW-17479-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- NHSE Office Flexible across SW Region
- Town
- Bristol
- Salary
- £109,725 - £145,478 pro-rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/09/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/10/2025
Employer heading

Deputy Postgraduate Dean - South West
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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.
We are an accredited Living Wage Employer which means that every colleague working for our organisation and third-party contractors will earn a real Living Wage. We are one of over 15,000 organisations, who voluntarily chose to pay the real Living Wage.
Job overview
Applications are invited for the role of Deputy Postgraduate Dean within NHSE South West. The role of Deputy Postgraduate Dean will provide local and regional leadership of the delivery of high-quality cross-specialty and multi-professional training. The role supports the Regional Postgraduate Dean in delivering corporate, statutory and non-statutory functions. It is focussed firmly upon improving patient and learner safety and experience and ensuring effective educational outcomes.
The appointment will be made on the basis of a part-time secondment to NHS England, alongside existing employment with an NHS Trust in the South West geographical footprint. The contract is up until the 31st October 2026 initially due to the transformation programme as we look to integrate NHS England into the Department of Health and Social Care.
Candidates invited to interview will participate in a 30-minute session with a stakeholder panel on Monday 20th October and a formal interview on Tuesday 21st October.
Main duties of the job
Key areas of responsibility will include:
- Direct management and support of the Heads of Specialty Schools.
- Direct management of resident doctors with professional standards. complex training and performance issues and support of the Heads of Schools in managing doctors in training experiencing difficulties
- Engagement with national workstreams including medical training review.
- Support of the Integrated academic training programme
- Leading on local delivery of national programmes such as the 10 year health plan and the 'three shifts' from analogue to digital; sickness to prevention; and hospital to community.
- Leading on regional priorities including including specialty training programme configuration.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced clinician with a thorough understanding of education and training across the region. They will also have strong leadership and communication skills and be able to work effectively as a member of a multi-professional team.
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.
Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.
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
You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the 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 and Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Medical or Dental Practitioner with a current license to practise.
- Attendance at courses aimed to support educational development
Desirable criteria
- Higher educational qualification such as a postgraduate certificate, diploma or Master’s in education.
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous or current appointment as a leader in healthcare education.
- Experience as a senior educator working in the field of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education and Training.
- Knowledge of NHS operating model/provision/commissioning of training.
Skills and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Proven track record of influencing and motivating others in leading change.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously when required on difficult and complex issues.
- Highly effective communicator
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Professor Lizzie Eley
- Job title
- Interim Regional Postgraduate Dean
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07747 472110
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