GP Training Programme Director | NHS England

GP Training Programme Director - Dorset Parental Leave cover

Fixed Term Contract until 31 March 2027

The role of GP Training Programme Director is to work with the local GP educational network, Head of GP School and Primary Care Dean in leading and delivering the recruitment, training and assessment of GP Specialty Training. The role also supports the wider range of functions aligned to the NHS England (NHSE) mandate.

This is an Training Programme Director role for 1 session in the Wessex Deanery.

As part of a team Training Programme Directors will focus upon maintaining and improving standards of specialty training through enabling high quality learner supervision, and educational delivery, supporting learner progress, assessment and experience, improvement of learner supervision, assessment and experience, engagement of faculty and ensuring effective educational outcomes. The role is evolving and will also focus on whole workforce transformation and developing multi-professional links.

To support the Primary Care Dean & 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.

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.

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 Wednesday 3 Jun 2026