Core Speciality Lead for Medicine - Penultimate Year - Tooting

City St George’s, University of London is the University of business, practice and the professions and brings together the expertise and excellence of City, University of London and St George’s, University of London into one institution. The combined university is now one of the largest higher education destinations for London students, combining a breadth of disciplines across health, business, policy, law, creativity, communications, science and technology. Our students are at the heart of everything that we do, and we are committed to supporting them to pursue their career and personal ambitions.

Our research is engaged, at the frontier of practice and has a positive impact on the world around us.

City St George’s is seeking an outstanding clinician-educator to take on the role of Core Specialty Lead in Medicine for the penultimate year of the MBBS programme.

This is a key academic leadership role within the clinical practice phase of the curriculum, providing specialty-level oversight of placement-based learning. The role has been developed to strengthen academic leadership across clinical placements, enhance consistency of student experience across partner NHS sites, and support high-quality delivery aligned with GMC Outcomes for Graduates.

You will work closely with the MBBS Senior Leadership Team and Quality Team, as well as placement leads across partner organisations, to ensure effective coordination, delivery, and continuous improvement of Medicine placements within penultimate year. The role also reflects the increasing importance of the virtual learning environment and the need for robust academic oversight of placement content and delivery across diverse clinical settings.

You will:

• Provide academic oversight of Medicine placements within P-year, ensuring alignment with curriculum outcomes and assessment requirements
• Lead on the development, quality, and annual review of placement content on the Virtual Learning Environment (Canvas)
• Act as a key point of contact for specialty-specific queries from placement leads, academic teams, and the MBBS programme
• Work collaboratively with partner NHS providers to support consistency and equity of student learning experience across sites
• Support quality assurance processes, including identifying and escalating placement-related concerns where appropriate
• Facilitate communication between university and clinical teams to support delivery of high-quality placement-based education
• Contribute to curriculum development and enhancement within the specialty
• Engage with assessment processes, including supporting question writing and examining where appropriate
• Work closely with MBBS leadership, Quality teams, and administrative colleagues to support effective programme delivery

Informal Enquiries

Informal enquiries may be directed to: Dr Hamed Khan, Divisional Lead for Medical Education, Email: hkhan@sgul.ac.uk

Dr Sarah Krishnanandan, Programme Director for MBBS, Email: sakrishn@sgul.ac.uk

Interviews are scheduled to take place on: a date to be confirmed

The selection process will involve an interview and an assessment/exercise/presentation. Further details will be confirmed at the interview stage.

City St George’s offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

City St George’s, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City St George’s operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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