Training Programme Director - O&G ST3-5 Teaching

NHS ENGLAND; Reading; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS England in the Thames Valley Local Office is seeking a Training Programme Director to lead the delivery of education and training for the future NHS workforce across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

Reporting to the Head of School, the TPD will focus on learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring high educational outcomes, while supporting workforce transformation and multi‑professional links within the local health and social care context.

Job description

Within NHS England, South East Region, the Thames Valley Local Office is responsible for the planning, development, education and training of the future and current healthcare and public health workforce across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire.

The role of the Training Programme Director is to work with the Head of School in Leading the delivery of a wide range of functions, aligned to NHS England mandate. Training Programme Directors (TPD) are professionally and managerially accountable to the Head of School. TPDs will focus on 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, TPDs 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. NHS England has a wide range of statutory functions, responsibilities and regulatory powers. These are focused on supporting the wider NHS to deliver high quality care, as well as doing those things that are best done once for the whole NHS. Our staff bring expertise across clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial specialisms - enabling us to design and deliver high-quality NHS services. In March 2025,the Government announcedthat NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care will increasingly merge functions, ultimately leading to NHS England being fully integrated into the department. If you currently work within the NHS and 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 process. Colleagues with a contractual office base are expected to spend, on average, at least 40% of their time working in our offices. We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies. Key working relationships and stakeholders:

Key working relationships and stakeholders

• Postgraduate Dean
• Secondary Care Dean
• Head of School
• Staff at all levels across the geographical area covered by the local office
• Practices and schemes
• Associate and deputy deans
• Clinical Faculty
• Other Heads of Schools
• Other Training Programme Directors, including Defence Deanery leads where appropriate
• Royal Colleges
• Professional and regulatory bodies
• Wider Stakeholder Network
• Local Medical and Dental Schools
• Providers and commissioners across the region
• Directors of Education
• Higher Educational Institutions