TPD – Stage 1 Anaesthetics (Core & ACCS), B'ham School of Anaesthesia | NHS England

NHS England; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A national healthcare organization seeks a Training Programme Director to lead educational functions and improve learner outcomes within the NHS. This role emphasizes clinical leadership, stakeholder engagement, and enhancing quality education and training across diverse healthcare teams. Applicants with a background in NHS are preferred, and the submission deadline is September 29, 2025.

Qualifications

• Effective clinical leadership and management experience.
• Ability to enhance patient care and improve educational outcomes.
• Experience in working collaboratively across diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of educational functions aligned with NHS England.
• Contribute to the strategic development of NHS education.
• Advocate for quality education and multi-professional collaboration.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Strategic development

Stakeholder engagement

Education and training quality

Job description

Overview

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

The Training Programme Director is professionally and managerially accountable to the Head of School. The role will focus on improving learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring effective educational outcomes, now and in the future. The role is evolving to include whole workforce transformation and developing multi-professional links.

To support the Postgraduate Dean, Training Programme Directors will work across the spectrum of health and, where relevant, social care, within a team context, so that education reflects changing service models and delivers an integrated workforce from diverse professional and other backgrounds.

The NHS England board has set out the top-level purpose for the new organisation to lead the NHS in England to deliver high-quality services for all, which will inform the detailed design work. We will achieve this 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.

If you would like to know more or require further information, please note the NHS England website information is available on the NHS England site.

If you are successful at interview, we will run an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) in the Electronic Staff Record system (ESR). This transfer gathers information from a previous or current NHS employer to support onboarding, including statutory and mandatory competency status, Continuous Service Dates, and annual leave entitlement. You will have the opportunity to inform us if you do not consent.

To work with the Head of School

• To provide effective clinical leadership, contributing to the strategic development of NHS England (WTE Directorate).
• 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 (WTE Directorate), by promoting leadership that inspires, motivates and empowers all staff, and demonstrating the values of the NHS.
• To work on behalf of NHS England (WTE Directorate), 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 (WTE Directorate).
• 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’.

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 29 Sep 2025.