Head of School – Medicine (East Midlands) | NHS England

NHS England; England; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare service provider in England seeks a Head of School to support educational excellence and clinical leadership. This position involves working closely with the Postgraduate Dean to enhance patient care through quality education and training. Responsibilities include leading multi-professional teams, promoting innovation, and ensuring the effectiveness of training programmes. Applicants should possess strong clinical leadership skills and a commitment to transforming healthcare education. This role aligns with NHS goals to improve health services.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical leadership and education is essential.
• Ability to inspire and motivate teams.
• Strong understanding of the healthcare landscape and educational requirements.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of educational outcomes in line with NHS mandates.
• Provide clinical leadership and strategic development.
• Engage effectively with stakeholders and local systems.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Knowledge

Education and Training

Collaboration

Innovation

Education

Clinical qualifications relevant to the role

Job description

The role of Head of School is to work with and support the NHS England Postgraduate Dean in leading the delivery of a wide range of functions, aligned to the NHS England mandate.

The Head of School is professionally and managerially accountable to the Postgraduate Dean. The Head of School will focus upon 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 mas well as innovative ways of curriculum delivery and workforce well-being strategies.

To support the Postgraduate Dean, Heads of Schools work across the spectrum of health and where relevant, social care, 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.

The Head of School will be expected to meet the challenges of leading the School and Education Providers to deliver the changing curricular in an evolving service landscape.

Although the main role is to lead and develop the Postgraduate School all senior clinicians within NHS England may have wider roles and projects as agreed with the Postgraduate Dean.

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.

To work with the Postgraduate Dean:

• To provide effective clinical leadership, contributing to the strategic development of NHS England.
• To contribute to the vision of the local NHS and to enhance patient care by providing leadership and direction with respect to the quality of education and training.
• To be an advocate and a positive role model on behalf of NHS England, by promoting leadership that inspires, motivates and empowers all staff, and demonstrating the values of the NHS.
• To work on behalf of NHS England, providing expert advice on specialty-specific matters.
• To work locally with key groups and stakeholders, to attend and host events across the regions, to develop key liaisons and to ensure effective local engagement and responsiveness in line with the culture of NHS England.
• To review how multi-professional healthcare teams interact and identify opportunities for different healthcare professions to work more effectively together through education and training.
• To work with providers and others to support and capture innovation locally and ensure national and local conversations develop ‘best practice’.
• To manage the work of Training Programme Director(s) and other clinical faculty to ensure appropriate systems for assessment, rotational management, revalidation, trainee supervision and support and other functions within the School.

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.

This advert closes on Tuesday 23 Dec 2025