Academic Lead for PPS - (Tooting) - (REDEPLOYEE APPLICANTS ONLY), London SW17 0RE

Job Description

Please note: This role is only open to redeployees at City St George's. Applications from individuals who are not redeployees will not be considered at this time.

To apply, please email your CV and cover letter to with the job title and reference number, demonstrating how you meet the essential criteria outlined in the person specification.

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 academic or clinician-educator to take on the role of Academic Lead for the Patients, Populations and Society (PPS) Theme within the MBBS programme.

This is an exciting and strategically important academic leadership role at the heart of the MBBS curriculum. The PPS theme is central to preparing future doctors who can understand patients as individuals, appreciate the wider determinants of health, work effectively with communities, practise ethically and professionally, and respond to the complex challenges facing modern healthcare.

The PPS theme brings together key areas including medical law and ethics, sociology, psychology, research and critical skills, population and public health, professionalism, patient safety, human factors, sustainability, patient involvement, diversity and inequalities in health. These areas are essential to the development of doctors who are reflective, compassionate, evidence-informed, socially accountable and able to practise safely within complex healthcare systems.

You will provide academic leadership for the PPS theme across the MBBS programme, working collaboratively with the Director of MBBS Development, PPS subtheme leads, assessment leads, clinical year leads, administrative colleagues and student representatives.

The role will involve shaping the vision and ongoing development of PPS across both the clinical science and clinical practice years, ensuring that teaching is current, engaging, clinically relevant and appropriately aligned with GMC outcomes, the MLA and the wider programme assessment strategy.

This role offers a particularly valuable opportunity for an educator with expertise in one or more PPS-related areas to contribute to meaningful curriculum development, assessment innovation and programme-wide educational enhancement. It would suit an individual who enjoys collaborative working, curricular thinking, educational leadership and the opportunity to influence how future doctors understand patients, populations and society.

You will:

• Provide academic leadership for the Patients, Populations and Society theme across the MBBS programme

• Review and develop the PPS curriculum across the clinical science and clinical practice years, ensuring that content remains current, coherent, inclusive and aligned with contemporary healthcare practice

• Work collaboratively with PPS subtheme leads to develop a clear and dynamic vision for the theme

• Support integration of PPS content across relevant areas including medical law and ethics, sociology, psychology, research and critical skills, population and public health, professionalism, diversity, patient involvement, human factors, sustainability, patient safety and inequalities in health

• Review teaching methods and support subtheme leads to develop active, engaging and applied teaching approaches

• Develop and deliver PPS theme-based teaching appropriate to the post holder's expertise and experience

• Support the development of PPS teaching within clinical practice years, including applied teaching linked to clinical examples and emerging"together weeks"

• Review relevant clinical practice outcomes with appropriate leads and support clinical teachers to deliver PPS-related outcomes effectively

• Work closely with the Director of MBBS Development, academic leads and administrative colleagues to ensure effective planning, coordination and delivery of PPS content

• Engage with assessment development across relevant domains, including SBA and CCA development, blueprinting, paper review and standard setting where appropriate

• Support the development of the PPS scheme of assessment, informed by GMC outcomes, the MLA and MBBS programme priorities

• Advise on PPS subject areas within assessment processes across clinical science and clinical practice years

• Contribute to quality assurance, curriculum evaluation and continuous improvement of PPS teaching and assessment

• Liaise effectively with relevant Chief and Responsible Examiners, the Exams Team, student representatives and the MBBS administrative team

• Promote inclusive, evidence-informed and socially accountable approaches to medical education

• Contribute to the continued development of a curriculum that prepares graduates to work professionally, ethically and effectively in complex, uncertain and evolving healthcare environments

This role provides an excellent opportunity to shape a vital theme within the MBBS programme and to influence how future doctors understand the wider context of clinical practice. The successful candidate will join a supportive academic community committed to educational excellence, innovation, inclusivity and student development.

To be successful in your application you will:

• be an academic or a clinician
• have knowledge of the MBBS Curriculum
• have experience of teaching delivery, planning and organising in healthcare professional education (undergraduate or postgraduate)
• have experience in medical education

Informal Enquiries

Informal enquiries may be directed to:

Dr Hamed Khan
Divisional Lead for Medical Education
Email:

Closing date for applications: Sunday 7th June 2026 at 23:55pm
Interviews are scheduled to take place on or around 14th July 2026

The selection process will involve an interview and or 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.

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