MBChB Theme Lead - Social and Population Health

University of Chester - Applied Medicine

Location: Chester

Salary: £58,225 to £61,759 per annum (pro-rata)

Hours: Part Time

Contract Type: Permanent

Placed On: 22nd September 2025

Closes: 5th October 2025

Job Ref: 0373-25

Hours per week: 7.3

Closing date: 23:59 hours BST on Sunday 5th October 2025

Chester Medical School (CMS) is an exciting development at the University of Chester, which delivers a range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in clinical and biomedical sciences. Our new MBChB Graduate Entry Programme launched in September 2024. We are actively recruiting suitably qualified and experienced candidates to join our team.

We are seeking a suitably experienced academic in Social and Population Health to lead the Social & Population Health Theme which runs throughout the four-year MBChB programme. You will be involved in teaching, curriculum development, assessment, quality monitoring and coordinating educational activities with the rest of the MBChB team and external faculty.

We are seeking someone with a strong public health background to join us. You will be expected to actively promote medical education, undertake research/scholarly activities and represent the School externally as required.

We encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants.

For an informal conversation, please contact either Prof Simon Watmough, CMS Head of Medical Education, s.watmough@chester.ac.uk or Prof Kate Knight, CMS Associate Dean, k.knight@chester.ac.uk

Further Details: Job Description (PDF)

We encourage applications from a diverse range of applicants.