Training Programme Director | NHS England


Company:	NHS England
Salary:	In line with TPD sessional payments
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Cambridge, CB21 5XB
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	25 Sept 2026
Closing date:	25 Oct 2026

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Summary

Working in partnership with the Head of School (HoS), the Training Programme Director (TPD) will provide senior educational leadership and strategic oversight of the delivery,developmentand quality of the Enhance programme across the East of England. They will lead an agreed portfolio of work and ensure the programme responds to national priorities, regional needs and emerging developments in medical education and training.

Enhance is a multiprofessional contextual leadership programme that supports healthcare professionals to develop broad generalist capabilities alongside specialistexpertise, including person-centred care, complex multimorbidity, systems working, population health, healthequityand environmental sustainability. In the East of England, it has been delivered through the Explore and Enable pathways, combining self-directed learning with regional development days, learning hubs, workplace activity, immersiveresourcesand opportunities to learn beyond traditional care settings.

The TPD(s)will oversee delivery in support ofFuture Doctor(2020), the NHS Long Term Plan,Fitfor the Future: the10-YearHealth Plan for England, and reforms arising from the Medical Education and Training Review. They will translate national policy into high-quality,flexibleand learner-centred education that develops generalist capabilities, supports servicetransformationand responds to changing population and workforce needs.

Accountable through theHoS, the TPD will lead programme quality, faculty engagement, learner and supervisor experience,evaluationand continuous improvement. They will develop partnerships across specialties,providersand professions, creating shared learning opportunities for doctors, pharmacists, allied health professionals, nurses, dental professionals and the wider health and care workforce.

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.

We cannot offer visa sponsorship for any vacancies.

Education and Training Quality Improvement and Performance

• To lead continuous improvement of high-quality learning environments for Enhance learners.

• To ensure compliance with NHS England statutory, regulatory and quality requirements, escalating risks to the HoS.

Patient Safety and Healthcare Quality Improvement

• To lead quality improvement processes supporting patient safety across the healthcare workforce.

• To champion clinical skills training and simulation, emphasising teamwork and human factors.

Programme Management

• To lead delivery, development and quality assurance of Enhance in the East of England, working with the HoS on:

• Programme delivery and learner or supervisor concerns;

• Opportunities and barriers to expansion into general practice, medicine and psychiatry;

• Recruitment to training posts and programmes;

• Programme management, including assessment, progression, rotations, support, remediation, out-of-programme activity, careers, less than full-time training, transfers and academic training.

• To contribute to school leadership and lead relevant programme meetings and governance.

• To represent Enhance, and where agreed the HoS, at local, regional and national meetings.

Educational and Workforce Development

• To lead and advise the HoS on educational and workforce development, including:

• Professional development of the educational faculty

• To assure effective supervision and learner support, addressing concerns and escalating risks.

• To identify learning and faculty needs and ensure appropriate appraisal, development and resources.

• To lead shared learning opportunities that strengthen multiprofessional working across the school and region..

Intelligence Support/ provision

• To oversee the use of local intelligence, evaluation and feedback to inform quality management, programme development and improvement.

• To ensure effective use of relevant information systems and accurate programme, learner and post data.

Strategic Workforce Development and Commissioning

• To lead clinical and educational input into local and national workforce planning relevant to Enhance.

• To commission and develop educational provision that supports generalist capabilities, curriculum outcomes and identified workforce needs.

• To identify and lead implementation of innovative education and workforce solutions across the programme.

• To advise the HoS and lead agreed commissioning and decommissioning activity for the programme.

Finance

• To lead agreed business planning and budget management for Enhance, ensuring effective use of resources and value for money.

• To ensure compliance with NHS England financial governance and procurement requirements.

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 11 Oct 2026

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