GP Associate Dean - Rotations

The Associate Dean (Primary Care) will support the Primary Care Dean and GP School in setting the strategic direction and development of clinical, professional education in Primary Care across the multi-professional primary care workforce within the Midlands.

We are looking to recruit to a 2-session permanent role.

Remuneration will be at GP03 point of national GP educator pay scale.

Responsibility for implementing innovative strategies of delivery and the evaluation of high-quality primary care education and training in NHSE Midlands.

• Key role in supporting the commissioning, transformation, and quality management of multi professional primary care education and training in accordance with the standards set by NHSE and regulators.
• Be a key member of the GP School Team and deputise as requested. The role and responsibilities will overlap with, and complement the other members of the senior team, requiring flexibility in working practices.

Support the school with strategic expansion aims, including oversight and coordination of recruitment numbers in conjunction with the Heads of School.

This role is primarily to support the GP School to manage their establishment of training placements, ensuring that these are utilised to maximise the educational opportunities and the organisations commitments in line with the Gold Guide, including code of practice. This will ensure that effective, safe and educationally balanced rotational opportunities are available to GP residents across the East Midlands now and in the future.

The successful candidate will work closely with internal and external stakeholders as the lead to ensure that training opportunities, through well-balanced rotations, are managed across all programmes in the East Midlands, including recruitment numbers.

You will be expected to work closely the APD for new and innovative posts to develop new rotations as GP expansion is rolled out.

Key Elements Of The Role Include

• Close liaison and negotiation with local GP programmes and practices, Training Hubs, NHS Trusts, NHS England, RCGP, academic institutions, defence deanery representatives, and other health care providers.
• Overview and management of the establishment of posts, undertaking strategic analysis and recommendations to maximise value
• Lead rotation planning across the East Midlands, supported the local educators and the NHS Primary and Community Care team, to meet nationally set deadlines including code of practice.

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 bottom of the pay band.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Layzell Job title: Primary Care Dean and Deputy Postgraduate Dean Email address: sarah.layzell@nhs.net