Overview
An enthusiastic and creative team of medical educators are working within the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences to develop a new School of Medicine, and we are looking for a Lead for Quality Assurance to join the team at this exciting time. The successful candidate will focus on supporting the Course Director with quality assurance and student progress over the four years of the School of Medicine curriculum. Our innovative programme aims to produce a new type of doctor — excellent and holistic clinical leaders who can drive change, delivering integrated and technologically advanced healthcare for their patients and communities. The programme will have a particular emphasis on digital and communication health technology (a research strength at Surrey), as well as a ‘One Health’ ethos that promotes understanding of a ‘whole society’ approach to health and builds on our aims to develop truly interprofessional training.
Responsibilities
- Support the Course Director with quality assurance and student progress throughout the four‑year curriculum
- Deputise in chairing the Student Progress and Support Committee (SPSC), ensuring students meet required learning outcomes
- Contribute to teaching across biomedical sciences, general medicine and specialties, delivering large and small group sessions, case‑based learning, team‑based learning, special study units and clinical and communication skills sessions
- Contribute to the admissions process, standard setting, writing knowledge test questions and OSCEs, and support OSCE examining
Qualifications
- Full registration with the General Medical Council (GMC)
- Higher professional qualification, usually a doctoral degree or equivalent
- Experience delivering high‑quality teaching
- Significant academic publication record and evidence of scholarly contributions to conferences, professional meetings and societies
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, ability to use tact, diplomacy and empathy to build effective relationships at all levels and influence, persuade and negotiate effectively
- Ability to work flexibly in a joint appointment alongside existing clinical duties (optional)
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Childcare assistance
- First‑class sports and leisure facilities
- Access to a variety of staff development opportunities
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