Associate Dean (South East) | NHS England

Job description

About

The role of the Associate Dean helps support the Postgraduate Dean in embracing corporate, statutory and non-statutory functions, aligning with the NHSE mandate. The role is focused firmly upon improving patient and learner safety and experience and ensuring effective educational outcomes.

The Associate dean is professionally accountable to the Postgraduate Dean and managerially by a deputy dean.

This is a South East role and the exact balance of this role, and how it co-ordinates with other Associate Deans in the South East will be considered through the recruitment process.

Leadership

• To work with the Postgraduate Dean

• To provide effective clinical educator leadership, contributing to the strategic development of the NHSE Workforce, Training and Education Directorate

• To contribute to the vision of the local NHS and to enhance patient care by providing leadership and direction with respect to the quality of education and training 

Quality and safety

• To work closely with the Postgraduate Dean and their deputies to implement the NHSE Quality Framework

Programme Management

• Specialty-specific matters and trainee/trainer concerns

• Postgraduate programme management, including assessments, progression, rotations, support and remediation, OOP management, trainee management, careers support, less than full-time training, inter-deanery transfer, academic training, study leave and relocation, supported return to training, flexible portfolio training along with other workstreams

 

 

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 role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification 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 Sunday 15 Nov 2026