- Organisation: BMJ Group
- Position: Clinical Editor, Education section
- Type: Permanent - Part-time, 2 days/week
- Salary: £72,069 (0.4fte - £28,827.60)
- Location: London/Hybrid
Description
Job Title: Clinical Editor, Education section
Contract: Permanent: Part-time (0.4fte)
Location: London/Hybrid
Salary: £72,069 (0.4fte - £28,827.60)
Application end date: 18th October 2026
Job Purpose
The BMJ has an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and focused individual to join our team as a Clinical Editor to commission and edit content for the Education section of The BMJ.
Responsibilities
- To develop content ideas for the Education section of The BMJ
- To liaise with and support authors
- To peer review articles
- To judge and handle conflicts of interest in line with The BMJ’s conflicts of interest policy
- To contribute to and maintain processes to ensure timely delivery of content for online and print
- To lead specific article types or series to ensure a good balance and flow of content, liaising with series advisers and other stakeholders
- To contribute to the BMJ’s international strategy by suggesting topic ideas and commissioning content for the Education section.
- To provide clinical expertise to other editors/sections when needed
- To support new editors
- To attend departmental meetings relevant to these activities
Skills, Experience & Qualifications
Essential qualifications:
- A medical degree (MBBS)
- Experience of at least two of the following:
- writing, editing, commissioning or curating educational content for clinicians
- doing or using clinical research in practice
- Critical appraisal
- doing or using audit or quality improvement
- medical management or policy making
- medical education
Desirable qualifications:
- At least one of the following:
- clinical post graduate exams
- completion of specialty training e.g. Consultant or GP
- postgraduate qualification such as a diploma, MSc or Ph
Applicants must be based in the UK and have the appropriate right to work in the UK. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.