Core Speciality Lead - Emergency Medicine - Maternity Cover - Tooting

Core Specialty Lead - Emergency Medicine (MBBS programme)

City St George's, University of London is seeking an outstanding clinician-educator to take on the role of Core Specialty Lead for Emergency Medicine within the MBBS programme (maternity leave cover).

This role provides academic oversight of Emergency Medicine placements across the clinical practice years, ensuring high-quality, consistent, and equitable learning experiences across multiple NHS sites. It reflects the increasing importance of strong coordination between the University and placement providers, high-quality digital learning resources, and alignment between curriculum, assessment, and workplace-based learning.

Responsibilities

• Provide academic oversight of Emergency Medicine placement content on the Virtual Learning Environment.
• Ensure alignment between learning outcomes, assessment, and clinical placement experience.
• Act as a key academic liaison between the University and NHS placement providers.
• Support consistency and equivalence of student experience across all sites.
• Contribute to curriculum development, review, and quality assurance processes.
• Support resolution of placement-related issues and elevate concerns where appropriate.
• Engage with assessment processes and aid in question writing and examining where appropriate.
• Maintain effective communication with academic teams, placement leads, and administrative colleagues.
• Support innovation in digital and blended learning delivery.

Interview & Application Process

Closing date for applications: Sunday 21st June 2026 at 23:55pm.

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.

Information and Diversity Statement

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, ethnic origin, religion, belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background. City St George's operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

Informal Enquiries

Informal enquiries may be directed to:

Dr Sarah Krishnanandan
Programme Director for MBBS

Email: