City St George's, University of London • London, UK
About this role
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 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.
You will work closely with the MBBS leadership and Quality teams, as well as NHS placement leads, to support delivery, coordination, and continuous improvement of Emergency Medicine teaching and placement experience, in line with GMC Outcomes for Graduates
You will
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 escalate concerns where appropriate
Engage with assessment processes and contribute to 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
Informal Enquiries
Informal enquiries may be directed to
Dr Sarah Krishnanandan
Programme Director for MBBS
sakrishn@sgul.ac.uk
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.
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.
The University of business, practice and the professions