The School of Health are seeking to appoint an experienced and suitably qualified External Examiner to support quality assurance and enhancement across two of our professional programmes:
- MSc Advancing Healthcare Practice
- BSc Healthcare Practice / BSc Healthcare Practice (Nursing)
These courses are designed for registered healthcare professionals wishing to advance clinical expertise, leadership capability, and academic development within contemporary practice.
Role requirements:
- Review proposed summative assessment briefs and exam papers
- Review a range of student assessments
- Attend examination boards and submit an annual report, highlighting good practice and areas for enhancement.
- Work collaboratively with course teams to support ongoing quality assurance
For further information on School of Health MSc Advancing Healthcare practice please see: https://www.rgu.ac.uk/study/courses/6968-pgcert-pgdip-msc-advancing-healthcare-practice
For further information on School of Health BSc Healthcare Practice please see: https://www.rgu.ac.uk/study/courses/5236-bsc-healthcare-practice
The university criteria for the appointment of external examiners are:
(i) An external examiner’s academic and/or professional qualifications shall be appropriate both in terms of the level and the subject(s) of such qualifications to match the general requirement of the assessed subject(s).
(ii) An external examiner shall have appropriate standing, expertise and experience in their subject or discipline to ensure the maintenance of academic standards; such standards shall reflect the general expectations of higher education relative to national standards for the particular subject or discipline.
(iii) An external examiner shall normally have recent examining or academically comparable experience which shall be adequate to the requirements of the subject area to be examined.
All appointments are subject to approval by the University Academic Council. Applicants new to external examination are welcome. Induction to the School will be arranged on appointment.
Commencement date: September 2026 and for a tenure of four years.
For an informal discussion please contact k.reid37@rgu.ac.uk