As a GP, you have the opportunity to shape our future primary care workforce. Becoming an educator allows you to guide and equip aspiring GPs and primary care healthcare professionals with the skills and confidence to shape the future of primary care. All healthcare professionals’ benefit from having dedicated GP educators — are you ready to train, inspire and shape the future of primary care in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex?
The benefits for you as an educator
Your role as an educator directly contributes to delivering better, more accessible healthcare in local communities. You’ll help prepare professionals who are equipped to meet the evolving needs of our growing and ageing population, strengthening the care provided closer to where people live.
You are needed now more than ever to shape the future of primary care.
Becoming a GP educator brings personal and professional rewards:
- brings professional fulfilment and enriches your clinical practice
- adds meaning to daily clinical work
- encourages reflection on practice
- improves communication skills
- trainees bring fresh perspectives and additional clinical capacity to your practice
“Becoming a GP educator has kept me up to date with guidelines and having to check latest pathways. The process is well-supported from beginning to end. It has provided a new look to our surgery.”
The supervision requirements for new roles in primary care, and established learners such as resident doctors in GP training and student nurses, are clarified in A Guide to Supervision in Primary Care.
GP educator pathway
To become a GP clinical supervisor you must attend the deanery supervisors preparation course and complete the quality approval process.
Hear from GP educators
Interested in becoming a GP educator but want to know more about how it works in practice? Read our case studies to discover the benefits for you, your service and patients, and see where the role could take your career.
Further information
Find out more about the requirements for becoming an approved learning environment, and how to become a GP educator in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex below:
- become a GP educator
- become an approved learning environment
- roles and responsibilities of an approved learning environment
- application process for becoming an approved learning environment
Contact us
If you have any questions about becoming a GP educator or the approval process, please contact the NHS England Kent, Surrey, or Sussex GP Teams: