Training Programme Director for Core Psychiatry | NHS England

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a part-time Core Psychiatry Training Programme Director. This role involves overseeing the delivery of training programs, enhancing learner experiences, and collaborating with health professionals to ensure educational effectiveness. Applicants should have strong leadership experience in health education. The position is part-time at 7 hours per week, contributing to the evolving landscape of the NHS until at least March 2027.

Qualifications

• Experience working within health education environments.
• Strong leadership skills in academic or clinical settings.
• Ability to enhance learner supervision and assessment.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of core psychiatry training functions.
• Work collaboratively with the Head of School and other professionals.
• Ensure effective educational outcomes for trainees.

Job description

Overview

We are looking to recruit to the post of Core Psychiatry Training Programme Director. This role is for 7 hours per week (1.75 EMC).

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 Training Programme Director 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.

To support the Postgraduate Dean, Training Programme Directors will 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.

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.

Leadership and core responsibilities

• 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.

NHSE is expected to cease as a separate entity with the merger into DHSC, therefore extensions and new appointments can only be guaranteed up until 31 March 2027. We anticipate educator roles being required beyond this point and further arrangements to be made once the new structure becomes clearer. We recognise this will create some uncertainty and will do our best to keep any potentially impacted informed of future plans as they come available.

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 Sunday 7 Dec 2025