Job overview

The Training Programme Director (TPD) role is responsible for leading and co-ordinating the training of GP Specialty Resident Doctors across the Pennine training programme. 

This will include managing the programme for the future and ensuring it can adapt to meet the future needs of the NHS. The post holder will work with the Head of School, local Associate Dean (GP) and other local educators to ensure each post within the programme meets the standards defined by the GMC, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and NHS England.  

They will ensure each post enables Resident Doctors to access a comprehensive range of experiences which will enable them to meet the requirements of the curriculum during their participation in the programme.

The post holder must be on the GMC GP Register with a minimum of one year’s post-CCT experience in the specialty. They must also meet the GMC standards for educational supervisors, engaged in the revalidation process and ideally in active clinical practice.

Main duties of the job

To oversee programme management in the programme area and advise Postgraduate Deans on the following matters:  

• Specialty-specific matters and Resident Doctor and/or trainer concerns;
• Recruitment to training posts and programmes
• Postgraduate programme management, including assessments, structured teaching programme and associated budget, progression, rotations, support and remediation, OOP
• Management, Resident Doctor management, careers support, less than full time training, inter-deanery transfers, Annual Development planning, study leave and academic training and other related work-streams. 
• Assist in the development and application of quality processes which are complementary across the healthcare workforce in the county. 
• To support the use of clinical skills training and simulation (where appropriate/applicable), stressing the importance of teamwork and human factors

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.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.