Regional Postgraduate Dean NEY NHSE site

Job summary

We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity to become the Regional Postgraduate Dean in the North East and Yorkshire region. This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with excellent leadership and problem-solving skills, and with strong knowledge and understanding of multi-professional education.

The role of Postgraduate Dean in England has evolved over a number of years as a result of changes in healthcare education and training, the implementation of Revalidation, the emergence of new workforce solutions and the continuing development of the NHS England (NHSE) Workforce Training and Education Directorate - WT&E, (formerly Health Education England - HEE).

The role of the Regional Postgraduate Dean embraces corporate, statutory, and non-statutory functions. It aligns closely with the NHS England Workforce, Training and Education directorate and is focused upon improving patient and trainee safety and experience and supporting service transformation.

Clear leadership from the Regional Postgraduate Dean must support the development of the whole workforce. An inclusive, whole workforce approach needs a broad expertise to bring together all aspects of education, training and development across the breadth of the workforce and be able to work effectively with other clinical regional leads within NHSE and across the system.

This is a varied and challenging role with a wide reach across NHSE WT&E's business areas and across all levels of the organisation.

As a system leader, the post holder will:

• Act as a senior clinical and educational leader at local, regional and national levels.
• Ensure the quality, safety and effectiveness of learners, learning environments and education programmes.
• Fulfil relevant statutory, regulatory and professional functions, including General Medical Council Responsible Officer statutory and legal responsibilities.
• Champion multi-disciplinary and multi-professional healthcare education and support development of the whole workforce.
• Work with the Regional Director of Workforce Training and Education, Regional Medical Director and system partners to support challenged organisations and fragile services.
• Act as an ambassador for NHS England Workforce, Training and Education, promoting collaboration, inclusion and continuous improvement.
• Support education and training to contribute to regional workforce priorities, service transformation and improved patient outcomes.

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 announced that 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.

Staff recruited from outside the NHS will usually be appointed at the…