Core Speciality Lead for Surgery - Longitudinal - T F Years (Tooting)

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Background

This role sits across T-F Years of the MBBS programme, providing longitudinal academic oversight of surgery placements. It ensures continuity, integration, and consistency of learning, assessment, a nd student experience across sites, while strengthening alignment with GMC Outcomes for Graduates within a complex, multi-site clinical education environment.

Responsibilities

The Core Specialities Lead role will be responsible for the academic oversight of the placement surgery learning resources across T-F Years longitudinally on the Virtual Learning Environment (Canvas), representing the speciality and responding to queries from the curriculum development team, supporting the work of the MBBS Quality team and liaising with their counterparts at NHS sites where required.
These roles have been created for all Placements in the clinical practice years of MBBS in recognition of the need to improve student experience in the context of increasing dependence of learning in the virtual environment as a core component of the MBBS curriculum, pressure on placement leads in the NHS environment, and the need for additional staff resource to support delivery and timely resolution of any issues relating to equivalency of opportunity to meet outcomes including workplace based assessments longitudinally across surgery in T–F year.

Person Specification

The role holder, with the support from the MBBS leadership team and Quality team, will facilitate communications with and longitudinal development of surgery placements across T-F Years at local teaching sites, where appropriate liaise with undergraduate leads for surgery with responsibility for ensuring vertical integration and curriculum continuity across both year, and support development of the MBBS Curriculum in line with Outcomes for graduates - GMC (gmc-uk.org).

Closing date for applications: 15th November 2026 at 11:59pm

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

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