Get Involved

If you are interested in any of the below FFLM roles, please complete the FFLM Role Application Form.

FFLM Salaried Positions

There are currently no vacant salaried positions.

Voluntary positions

There are many opportunities to contribute to your Faculty.  If you are interested in serving as a Senior Officer or participating on one of the FFLM committees, representing the FFLM at external committees and working groups or reviewing e-learning modules, this is the page to find something to match your skills.

 

Job advert: Educational Consultant for the Faculty

We are seeking to appoint an Educational Consultant to assist the Chief Examiner and Academic Dean in setting, assessing and reviewing the Faculty examinations each year. The role will be flexible, with hours depending on the time of year and examinations being held. The role will be remunerated at an hourly rate, to be agreed at interview and dependent on experience. Qualifications and experience in education essential. Please send a copy of your CV and a covering letter outlining your suitability for the post to Kim Feltham, Examinations Manager at exams@fflm.ac.uk.

 

A Day In The Life

What does a typical ‘day in the life’ of look like for our members working in forensic and legal medicine? We want to hear from you!

We’re planning to post a series of member accounts on our website to give a flavour of what it’s like to work in this field.

We want to hear from all our members so this includes:

  • Healthcare professionals (doctors, nurses and paramedics) in custody;
  • Nurses and doctors working in sexual assault referral centres;
  • Medico-legal advisors;
  • Dento-legal advisors;
  • Medically qualified coroners;
  • Forensic pathologists;
  • Doctors and nurses working as advisors for the DVLA;
  • Clinicians working in Secure and Detained settings;
  • Medical examiners;
  • Forensic psychiatrists;
  • Forensic odontologists;
  • Medical Reviewers (Scotland);
  • Court-appointed, medically qualified members of a Tribunal.

If you’d like to help, please let our Registrar know at registrar@fflm.ac.uk.

 

CPD Reviewers

We’re looking for volunteers to assist with assessing applications for CPD approval for courses. CPD reviewers will be required to assess submissions against the FFLM Quality Standards.

If you are interested and would like more information please email forensic.medicine@fflm.ac.uk 

Senior FFLM Roles

No vacancies at present

Senior Officers/Vice-Presidents

No vacancies at present

Board & Committees

Training and Education (TED) Subcommittee Vacancy

Applications are invited for additional members of our TED Subcommittee. We are looking for a:

  1. A Clinician practising in Secure and Detained Settings.

Applicants must come from the current membership (Associate, Affiliate, Licentiate, Member, Fellow) of the FFLM and must be in good standing.

The aims of the TED subcommittee are:

  • To develop a training programme across the breadth of the membership;
  • To review and reflect on feedback from educational meetings.

The committee is chaired by the Vice-President of Forensic Medicine and reports to the Academic Committee. Representatives will serve a term of three years which may be extended by a further two years.

To apply, please email forensic.medicine@fflm.ac.uk outlining your interest and suitability for the post, along with a brief, up-to-date curriculum vitae (CV). Applications will be considered by the Academic Dean and senior colleagues and their decision is final.

 

 

Other opportunities

Examiners

We could not provide the FFLM examinations without the essential contribution of our team of examiners.

We are looking to expand our examinations team – being an examiner provides an opportunity to support the FFLM and guide the future direction of forensic and legal medicine.

Please read our document ‘Roles and Duties of FFLM Examiners’ to learn more about the role.

 

Are you a Licentiate member interested in becoming an examiner?

The Faculty are seeking expressions of interest from Licentiate members, who passed all components of the Licentiate examination at least 2 years ago, for the role of examiner to assist in the part 1 Licentiate exam. The role is a voluntary one and training and support will be offered. If you are interested please send a copy of your CV to Kim Feltham, Examinations Manager at exams@fflm.ac.uk

 

If you are one of our members and have any queries about volunteering to become one of our esteemed examiners, please contact us at forensic.medicine@fflm.ac.uk.

 

External Positions

We advertise external jobs in forensic and legal medicine, for a fee per week.

Please complete the invoice request form along with the External post advertisement form.

Kindly note that our advertising a post on our website and in the bulletin does not mean the FFLM endorses it. Moreover, we reserve the right to refuse to publish any jobs which are in breach of our recommendations.

£100 per week for Commercial (for profit) organisations
£50 per week for Charities

External Courses
We advertise the following companies’ events free of charge on the FFLM events webpage, as they reciprocate and advertise FFLM events free of charge:
• Royal College of Emergency Medicine
• Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare
• St Mary’s Centre
• Royal Society of Medicine
• Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia

Relevant publications which may be of interest to members may be highlighted on the Faculty website, in bulletins and other communications. This is not considered to be advertising for the purpose of this policy

Courses that are CPD accredited by FFLM, are added to the events page as per the request of the providing organisation.

We do not add external courses to our weekly bulletin.