Applications are invited to join the Anatomy team at Brighton and Sussex Medical School. The individual will be joining an award-winning team that teach 3,000 students a year and deliver outstanding anatomical education to a range of programmes including allied-heath, medicine and higher surgical training.

As an Anatomy Demonstrator you will play an important role in our students’ development through guidance, support, and delivery of high-quality anatomical teaching and assessment. You will teach and supervise students during a range of teaching sessions, including dissection and prosection sessions, living anatomy and ultrasound sessions, and revision sessions. You will also be required to produce teaching resources and learning materials, including the creation of prosections.

This role comes with full funding to complete the taught PGCert in Medical Education from Brighton and Sussex Medical School.

Ideally, you will have a degree in medicine or a postgraduate qualification in human anatomy or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience. You will have a strong knowledge and understanding of human anatomy as applied to cadaveric material and preferably experience of anatomy dissection. You will have experience teaching at undergraduate level and be able to use excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills to engage students through a variety of inclusive and effective teaching methods.

You should have knowledge of the Human Tissue Authority requirements relating to the use of donors in anatomy education and show a willingness to contribute to student support activities beyond core teaching duties. A recognised higher education teaching qualification, experience teaching anatomy using cadaveric material at undergraduate or postgraduate level, membership of a relevant professional body, and involvement in education scholarship or research would be desirable.

Brighton and Sussex Medical School (BSMS) is an equal partnership between the Universities of Sussex and Brighton together with NHS organisations throughout the South-East Region. BSMS is committed to inclusivity, sustainability, medical education in a multi-professional context, and promoting the highest possible standards in our teaching, clinical practice and research (ranging from early translational to applied).

Working together, our Academics, Technicians and Professional Services staff co-ordinate the passionate delivery of teaching and research, allowing us to remain one of the leading choices of medical schools in the UK. Our staff are multiskilled and work across varied teams, which are diverse, experienced and dedicated.

Our object as a School is to strive for excellence in education, training and research allowing us to support all in a constantly changing healthcare sector. We work to create a nurturing and supportive environment in which our staff and our students can succeed and thrive.

Our medical research has developed a strong reputation for making a real impact locally, nationally and internationally.

Ultimately, our research aims to:

• improve medical treatment
• answer fundamental biomedical and clinical questions
• deliver more personalised healthcare to patients.

Brighton and Sussex Medical School is proud to hold a Gold Athena Swann Award.

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion.

Please contact Danya Stone (d.stone@bsms.ac.uk) for informal enquiries.

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Visa Sponsorship Queries: This role has been assigned an eligible SOC code, however, the role does not meet the eligibility for sponsorship due to its part-time nature. Please consult our Skilled Worker Visa information page for further information about Visa Sponsorship.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK.

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