Core Speciality Lead - Emergency Medicine - Maternity Cover - Tooting in London

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 settle 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 may be directed to: Dr Sarah Krishnanandan Programme Director for MBBS Email:

Closing date for applications Sunday 29th November 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.