Lecturer (Small Group Facilitator) (Education and Scholarship) (PDG)

These part-time posts are available from 1 September 2025 on a fixed-term basis until 31 August 2026. This advert is for our Devon Vacancies. Please click here to see our corresponding advert for Cornwall vacancies.

If you are interested in more than one locality, please apply against the advert that best suits your preference of location. Candidates who are successful at shortlisting stage can indicate at interview if they are interested in working at other locations.

The role
Within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, on the undergraduate BMBS programme the Professional Development Group (PDG) Tutor role is available in all five years of the BMBS undergraduate curriculum and in all localities in Devon - Exeter, Torbay (Wednesdays) and North Devon (Wednesdays - presently full), and Cornwall - Truro, Penryn (Tuesdays).

We are inviting applications for either Devon or Cornwall, but if you might be interested in either, or are able to be flexible, please mention this in your application and at interview.

Please state in your application what sessions in the working week would you be readily available to teach and whether there could be any flexibility on this.

The groups take place as follows:

• Year 3 on Monday / Year 2 on Tuesday / Year 5 on Wednesday / Year 1 on Thursday / Year 4 on Friday. Year 1 groups are only available in Exeter. The sessions are usually timetabled to be regularly in a morning or an afternoon through the year. It may be possible to swap to a different year group at the end of the academic year.
• Twelve group sessions are scheduled for each group in the academic year, and then students usually have two or 3 one to one meetings with their tutor over the year to discuss their progress and specific needs.
• Each group requires a 90-hour annual commitment. This includes one to one meetings with students, reviewing eportfolio written reflections, training and PDP, and preparation time.
• The successful applicants can choose to be the tutor for 1 or 2 groups depending on timetabling and availability.

Professional Development Groups aim to develop the personal and professional skills essential for being a doctor. Student experiences from placements are used as a starting point to develop reflective practice. Group discussions and individual learning activities explore complexity, ethics and professionalism and relate these to learning on the rest of the course. You will also act as a personal tutor for the academic year, monitoring students’ individual academic progress, providing guidance and advice, discussing academic progress, providing feedback and referring to sources of additional support as necessary.

Salary
Please see main advert on university advert (accessed by the 'Apply' button).

For a Lecturer (Small Group Facilitator) post you will:

• Be medically qualified.
• Have GMC registration with a licence to practice.
• Be on the GP register or specialist register (CCT required), or be in a substantive Staff or Associate Specialist post.
• Have at least 3 years recent experience of working in the NHS.
• Possess excellent communication skills.
• Have good IT skills and be familiar with Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Have experience of teaching.
• Be clinically active or have significant clinical experience.

Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.

Interviews are expected to take place online mainly on Thursday, 10^th April 2025, with potential additional dates on Monday, 14^th April and Thursday, 24^th April.

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