Core Speciality Lead for Surgery - Longitudinal

Islington Working; Greater London; Remote; GBP 53,000 - 112,000; Part time

Job summary

City St George’s, University of London invites applications for a Core Speciality Lead for Surgery - Longitudinal. The role provides academic oversight of surgery placements across the MBBS years, ensuring continuity, integration, and alignment with GMC outcomes across multiple sites.

You will collaborate with the MBBS leadership and NHS partners to develop longitudinal learning resources, support curriculum development, and enhance student experience within a virtual and clinical learning

Qualifications

• Not specified

Responsibilities

• Oversee academic delivery of surgery placements across T-F Years via the Virtual Learning Environment (Canvas).
• Coordinate with curriculum development team and NHS sites to ensure longitudinal integration and timely issue resolution.
• Support development of the MBBS curriculum in line with GMC Outcomes for Graduates and coordinate with MBBS leadership and Quality teams.

Job description

Vacancy Core Speciality Lead for Surgery - Longitudinal -

Employer

Employer City, University Of London

Vacancy type

Vacancy type Fixed Term Contract

Reference number

Reference number Cor10852

Form of employment

Form of employment Part Time

Salary / Rate

Salary / Rate Clinical Academic - £52,656 per annum, pro rata Consultant £105,504- £111-714 – Consultant range per annum, pro rata

Hours

Hours Not specified

Published

Published 21/10/2026

Closing date 15/11/2026

Description

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.

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, and student experience across sites, while strengthening alignment with GMC Outcomes for Graduates within a complex, multi-site clinical education environment.

Duties

• 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.
• 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).

Desirable criteria

Not specified

Additional information

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.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.