King's College London

About Us

King’s College London is a leading University with nine Faculties. As part of King’s Health Partners, we have an excellent environment for health care interaction and a strong focus on mentoring and career development.

The 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF2021) placed King’s applied and allied health research 1st for: overall proportion of research rated 4* (world-leading, the best mark possible), research papers rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), Grade Point Average and Power.  REF2021 rated as world-leading: 100% of our environment, 86% of our impact and 70% of our research overall. Over 95% of our research overall was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent.

For the last six years, King’s has been number 2 in the world and number 1 in Europe for Nursing (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe.

The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes the Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.

Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes.

We are committed to staff development, and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity to join King's College London and work with our Placements Team in the Nightingale Student Hub. We provide a range of student and education support services for the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, & Palliative Care, including supporting practice learning for our students in clinical placements. 

The work of our Placements Team is essential to supporting over 11,500 placements each year. As a Placements Officer, you will help us to provide world-leading educational support for student placements. Our Placements Team are part of a dynamic and evolving landscape of practice-learning which reaches beyond our many NHS Trust Partners into placements within communities across Greater London.

The successful candidate will be able to support effective partnerships and work supportively at all levels, both internally and externally. With a highly motivated approach, the successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the importance of a student-focussed service and an ethos of continual enhancement. The successful candidate will be committed to contributing to our objectives, exemplifying Our Principles in Action as part of King’s Strategic Vision 2029.

The role will involve the provision of first line support to students on placements, which will incorporate the development of an expert knowledge of an online practice learning system.

This is a full time (35 hours per week), and you will be offered as fixed term contract for 2 years until the 26 April 2027.

King’s considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and we offer an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provide in-house and bespoke learning.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Degree or equivalent 
2. Ability to work with a broad range of stakeholders in a professional and assured manner 
3. Excellent written and verbal communication skills including the ability to draft documents and correspondence 
4. Excellent organisation and time management skills 
5. Strong numeracy skills and ability to analyse complex numerical data 
6. Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages and the ability to work with new systems 
7. Proactive with the ability to work independently as well as delivering within a team 
8. Curious, customer service oriented, with a commitment to personal accountability and continuous improvement 

Desirable criteria

1. Experience in the use of databases and/or student records systems (such as InPlace and SITS), virtual learning environments (such as KEATS) and website content management systems 
2. Prior experience of working in a customer facing environment 

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community. 

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.