KCATO offers guidance, funding opportunities, professional development programmes and events for research-active health professionals working across King’s Health Partners (King’s College London and its partnering NHS Trusts: Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital, and South London and Maudsley).

Our ambition is to create a thriving research centre for our health professionals, equipping you with the tools you need to become global leaders in health research and practice. We are here to support you, no matter your career stage or profession.

The work we do is built around our four strategic pillars:

Through these activities, KCATO facilitates world-class clinical academic training across King’s College London and our NHS partners, enabling all types of health professionals to become clinical academic leaders of the future.

KCATO’s Directors are clinical academics themselves, so they understand the commitments and challenges that come with navigating this dual career path. You can hear from them and learn more about KCATO in the video below.

How KCATO supports your training and development

If you’re a healthcare professional researcher based at a King's Health Partners organisation, KCATO is here to support your career development. This includes helping you navigate the range of training on offer and identify which courses would benefit you most.

That’s why we created the KCATO Health Professional Researcher Skills Development Framework, to help you feel confident about which skills you should be developing to be an excellent researcher. Our framework was developed from several UK and international researcher and clinical frameworks, including the NHS Research Capabilities Framework.

Health professionals working across King’s Health Partners can access the KCATO SharePoint Hub to find on-demand training and development opportunities organised under our framework’s three headings. We also signpost to the incredible variety of training on offer from King’s Health Partners and other organisations such as funders. If you don’t yet have access to the KCATO SharePoint Hub, you can request access here.

KCATO’s events are designed to plug any gaps in training not offered elsewhere, as well as providing opportunities for you to connect with other healthcare professional researchers. Check out our events page to browse and register for these.

King's Clinical Academic Training Office Team