About this role
Job summary
We are delighted to invite applications to become the Clinical Quality Lead and Deputy Dean for the North East and North Cumbria. This varied and challenging role is an important part of the senior faculty team for Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (PGMDE) in the locality, reporting to the Postgraduate Dean.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with excellent leadership and problem solving skills. Candidates must be a registered Medical Practitioner with a current licence to practice and with strong knowledge and understanding of multi-professional education. The post is recruited on a fixed term/ secondment basis currently until 31 March 2027.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will provide clinical leadership for PGMDE Quality in the North East, leading the Quality Team to deliver the NHS England Quality Strategy and Quality Framework with the overarching aim of improving patient safety across the locality.The role provides assurance to regulators, specifically the GMC for postgraduate medical education.
The role also fulfils one of several Deputy Dean roles in the North East deanery. The postholder will share corporate responsibility for the overall development of education and training across the locality. The role requires the postholder to fulfil wider responsibilities as directed by the Postgraduate Dean as detailed in the job description.
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
The role is focused on managing education and training risks, assurance, good practice, improvement and escalations, while promoting understanding and engagement with quality standards, governance, roles and responsibilities.The postholder contributes to and leads specific NHS England (WTE) North East quality projects, for example the Faculty of Patient Safety and the EDI workstream.
You can find further details about the job, in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents. This includes the range of wider duties of the role as Deputy Dean, the specifics of which will be directed by the Postgraduate Dean.
Please note that the reason for the fixed term of this contract is due to it being a short team vacancy.
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.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered Medical Practitioner with a license to practice
Experience Essential
Knowledge of the NHS, its structures and processes, including an understanding of healthcare/multi-professional workforce matters Previous or current appointment as a leader in healthcare education
Skills Essential
Ability to critically appraise and problem solve whilst maintaining objectivity Politically astute with an ability to sensitively manage complexity and uncertainty
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name NHS England
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Newcastle
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