Become a primary care educator in London

Primary care educators and learning environments play a critical role in healthcare education and training, delivering vital learning experiences across general practices, neighbourhood hubs and community services.  

Educators and learning environments provide our current and future NHS primary care workforce with the space, learning, support, supervision and assessments they need to deliver excellent care to patients and communities.

As the NHS transforms to bring care closer to communities through the government's 10 Year Health Plan, primary care educators are needed more than ever to guide and equip the next generation of healthcare professionals. 

As a primary care educator, you will play a unique role in offering clinical supervision to multi-professional staff. Whether you're supporting resident doctors, practice nurses, clinical pharmacists, paramedics undertaking a prescriber qualification, or other members of the primary healthcare team, your experience and knowledge can shape careers and improve patient care for years to come. 

You will be doing more than just supervising the future workforce, you could also be:

• planning and delivering educational interventions, including supervision of practice or workplace learning 
• being responsible for supervision and verification of assessment 
• creating and maintaining a safe learning environment 

Hear from primary care educators

Interested in becoming a primary care 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. 

Support for becoming a primary care educator

There are a large variety of leaners from a range of primary care professional groups who you could help gain their professional qualification by supporting them through their learning and education.

You can find the details of the different professional groups you can supervise in the documents section to give you an idea of the breadth and variety of being an educator.

There are also some helpful FAQs in the documents section to aid your decision in being a primary care educator.

Applying to become a primary care educator

In London, we’ve streamlined the approval process to make it easier to apply. The process is now less resource intensive.

We’ve moved away from individual educator and learning environment approvals to at scale approvals, mitigating the need for physical practice visits and individual interviews.

 

 

Further information

Find out more about  what the applications steps  to become a primary educator and the  approved learning environment processes in  London  below: 

• process for becoming a primary care educator
• frequently asked questions (PDF only, 217KB)
• approved educator courses
• become a GP educator in London
• become an approved learning environment in London