Foundation Training Facilitator | NHS England

NHS England; Otley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A national health service organization in the United Kingdom seeks a pharmacy education leader to manage training for pharmacy professionals. This role involves designing educational plans, supporting trainees, and ensuring high standards of education delivery. The candidate should demonstrate excellent leadership, a commitment to diversity, and experience in managing pharmacy education programs. The position requires close interaction with healthcare systems to enhance care delivery and health outcomes.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in educational roles related to pharmacy training.
• Commitment to promoting inclusion and diversity in education.
• Experience in managing curriculum delivery and assessments.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver educational plans for pharmacy trainees.
• Contribute to program development aligned with GPhC standards.
• Manage foundation recruitment and team supervision.

Skills

Excellent leadership and management behaviours

Expertise in education delivery

Ability to support trainees

Knowledge of pharmacy education standards

Education

Pharmacist qualification

Job description

NHS England Workforce Training and Education (WTE) manages the education, training and development of NHS clinical professionals including pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, doctors, dentists, nurses and allied health professionals.

This post supports pharmacist training across the East of England working with the Pharmacy Education team.

Responsibilities

You will be responsible for providing professional leadership, together with expertise, advice and support to:

• Design, create and deliver appropriate teaching, learning and assessment plans to support foundation pharmacist trainees and their educational supervisors.
• Actively contribute to the design and development of the pharmacy education programmes and linking to the multi-professional school with shared common resources.
• Contribute to the business planning processes to provide input into the strategic development of the work related to the GPhC’s revised initial education and training of pharmacists standards.
• Identify and support pharmacist trainees requiring further support during their foundation training period.
• Contribute to the availability of high quality training and support for pharmacist trainees and educational supervisors.
• Provide professional expertise on a specific portfolio of work.
• Manage the provision and development of resources, services and opportunities for pharmacist trainees and their educators across the healthcare professions.
• Support equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives in pharmacy education.
• Appreciate and understand how the activities and objectives of the department aligns with the wider business planning for NHS England, in particular to WTE East of England and nominated IC(s).

Strategic Purpose

• 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.

Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR) will be run for successful candidates. This transfer gathers valuable information from a previous or current NHS employer to support the onboarding process. You will have the opportunity throughout the recruitment process to inform us if you do not consent.

Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Delivery of high standards of education with respect to training posts, curriculum requirements and other education programmes.
• Commitment to national vision, policies and processes for effective educational delivery and to drive innovation and improvements to healthcare delivery.
• Ensure appropriate signposting and support for trainees and trainers.
• Excellent leadership and management behaviours including co-ordinating education provision, the ability to lead beyond the team and across the department.
• Manage foundation recruitment, workload allocation & team supervision.
• Responsible for allocated data systems creation, management and utilisation.
• Work with the team to deliver expert education and pharmacy advice for allocated workstreams/programmes, proposing changes as required.
• Management of the implementation of the foundation pharmacy programme, in line with NHS England policy and requirements, contributing to the organisation of delivery in the East of England IC(s).

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 the employer prior to submitting the application.

This advert closes on Sunday 11 Jan 2026