GP Patch Associate Dean | NHS England

GP Patch Associate Dean

Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2027

The GP Patch Associate Dean will assist and work with the Primary Care Dean , Head of School and Deputy Head of School for General Practice to ensure the delivery of safe and compassionate care to patients through the delivery of high-quality GP specialty training. The postholder will have local responsibility for the co-ordination, provision and management of postgraduate general practice training activities within the Portsmouth patch region

The successful applicant will be expected to have a medical background and experience of education in a community or primary care setting and remain registered with a license to practice.

This role will also work with our Educational and Clinical Supervisors to support and help them provide good quality supervision for GP resident doctors.

GP Patch Associate Deans 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.

This will involve working with the Head of School and Primary Care Dean, and also doing strategy work in the Wessex region with the Primary Care Dean, Head and Deputy Head of School.

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.

You can find further details about the job, organisational structure, recruitment profile, expected outcomes and benefits information in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

This advert closes on Sunday 17 May 2026