Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (until 31/10/2026. Secondment only for NHS employees)
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 990-NEY-18113-E
- Employer
- NHS England
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 7-8 Wellington Place
- Town
- Leeds
- Salary
- £64,455 - £74,896 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Post-Registration Pharmacist Training Programme Director
NHS AfC: Band 8b
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
We’re looking for a passionate and experienced pharmacy professional to take on the role of Training Programme Director for Post-registration Pharmacist Practice in the North East and Yorkshire (NEY). This is a key position within NHS England’s NEY School of Pharmacy, where you’ll help drive the development of high-quality post-registration education and training for pharmacists across the region.
You’re a registered pharmacist with a foundation in education, training, or workforce development. You bring energy, insight, and a collaborative spirit - ready to lead, inspire, and make a lasting difference in the profession.
Main duties of the job
- Building strong partnerships with education providers, employers, supervisors and learners to ensure effective, innovative, and continuously improving educational delivery.
- Providing oversight and quality assurance of training pathways that support pharmacists in delivering excellent patient care.
- Leading workforce development initiatives aligned with national priorities and tailored to local needs.
- Engaging with colleagues across other regions to share innovations, influence national consistency, and contribute to a unified vision for post-registration pharmacist development.
- Supporting and developing educational supervisors and leading regional pharmacy training networks to ensure high-quality supervision and cross-sector learning opportunities.
Working for our organisation
Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers.
Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services.
We lead the NHS in England 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
Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.
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 recruitment process.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will be working as part of the North East and Yorkshire School of Pharmacy. They will also work alongside other regional teams across England and with other relevant stakeholders across the system.
The main responsibilities of the role will include:
- Programme leadership: Lead the design, delivery, and evaluation of post-registration pharmacist education and training, ensuring alignment with national policy and local workforce needs.
- Quality assurance: Oversee the quality and consistency of training and supervision.
- Stakeholder engagement: Build strong relationships with education providers, employers, and national networks to support collaborative working and share best practice.
- Educational supervision: Support and develop educational supervisors across sectors, facilitating networks and promoting multi-sector learning.
- Strategic development: Contribute to the School’s strategic planning, policy development, and service improvement initiatives.
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
- Educated to Masters’ level, or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area, in Pharmacy and healthcare leadership.
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Extensive knowledge of healthcare education management or commissioning, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a senior pharmacy professional, with extensive knowledge of pharmacy and medicines optimisation.
- Highly developed subject matter expertise, including knowledge of NHS policy, educational policy and healthcare leadership and management.
- Demonstrated experience of leading training or work programmes in highly complex and challenging environments.
Skills, Capabilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills.
- Able to work as part of a team and operate effectively in a multidisciplinary environment. Seeks out different styles and methods of communication to assist longer terms needs and aims.
- Demonstrates sound judgement in the absence of clear guidelines or precedent, seeking advice as necessary from more senior management when appropriate.
- Encourages best practice across the organisation with appropriate use of networks.
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates strong leadership to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals. Empowered and enabled to deliver.
- Committed to involving all staff in developing positive and innovative approaches to business challenges.
- Empowers staff to take control, make decisions and act on innovative ideas.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jonathan Foster
- Job title
- Head of School Post-Registration Pharmacists
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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