Regional Director of Workforce, Training & Education | NHS England

NHS England; Leeds; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization is seeking a Regional Director for Workforce Training and Education in Leeds. This pivotal role involves leading workforce initiatives across the region, ensuring improvements in training and education outcomes while fostering strategic partnerships. The ideal candidate should demonstrate a commitment to equality and possess strong leadership skills. This position offers an opportunity to significantly impact healthcare service delivery in the region.

Qualifications

• Highly developed professional and leadership skills are essential.
• Experience in collaborating with multiple stakeholders in healthcare.
• Knowledge of national workforce strategies and mandates.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership for the workforce across the region.
• Lead the workforce education and training function.
• Ensure systems improve workforce capacity and capability.

Skills

Leadership skills

Strategic expertise

Collaboration

Commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

Job description

Overview

The Regional Director for Workforce Training and Education will play a vital leadership role in the wider health and care system in North East and Yorkshire, as well as working, as required, alongside the national workforce training and education function. The Director will be accountable for delivery of agreed large scale regional workforce, education and development priorities for health and care in their region, including driving new initiatives, improvements and best practice to support the overall aims of the ICBs and Providers as appropriate. The postholder will work closely with the Regional Director to ensure that there is accountability and governance in place in relation to senior leadership across the NEY system. The Director will be accountable for delivery of a national workforce training and education priority as agreed with the Chief Workforce Training and Education Officer.

Responsibilities

• Provide impactful leadership of the full workforce remit across the region by: securing strong and impactful relationships with each ICB, providers’ workforce leaders and partner organisations in workforce, education and training; Trade Unions and staff networks.
• Lead an integrated workforce education and training function for the region.
• Demonstrate a clear commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, leading by example.
• Ensure systems to deliver improvements in the capacity and capability of the workforce across the region to meet the needs of the population served.
• Lead on a wide range of new initiatives to deliver improvements across all workforce training and education outcomes as defined and measured by the national workforce, training and education function.

Qualifications and Skills

The postholder will need to have highly developed specialist professional and leadership skills to ensure the level of partnership and collaboration across NHSE and wider stakeholder groups that will achieve success in the role. This leader will need to have high level strategic expertise to encompass delivery against key national strategies, such as the 10 Year Plan, EDI Improvement Plan, Framework 15, Future of HR & OD and the People Promise, as well as any additional mandates for workforce, education and training from government.

About Our Work

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.

Role entry and onboarding

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.

Additional details

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 Monday 6 Oct 2025