King's College London

About us

This role is located within the King’s Experimental Research in Gambling Group (KERANGG), National Addiction Centre, IoPPN, King’s College London.

About the role

This role is designed to give the successful applicant hands on experience of an ongoing research project. The purpose of the role is to assist with the construction of a database from treatment seeking gamblers, to allow retrospective analysis of the data. This will involve working with existing clinical data, extracting key variables, and compiling into an existing database template. The second component of the role is to make contact with individuals who have indicated a willingness to take part in further research, and to send them relevant materials and keep accurate records of who has been sent materials.

The successful applicant will report to the Dr. Steve Sharman.

This is a full-time post. You will be offered an a fixed term contract to run for 6 months from the date of commencement. If the role cannot be taken up full-time (35 hours per week), there is potential for flexible working (e.g. longer time but less days per week). The successful candidate will be required to work on site in west London.

Research staff at King’s are entitled to at least 10 days per year (pro-rata) for professional development. This entitlement, from the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, applies to Postdocs, Research Assistants, Research and Teaching Technicians, Teaching Fellows and AEP equivalent up to and including grade 7. Visit the Centre for Research Staff Development for more information.

About you

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

Essential criteria

1. Degree in Psychology or adjacent discipline.
2. Highly organized, with a good eye for detail
3. Excellent written and oral communication skills
4. Experience of working with treatment seeking populations
5. Experience of coding data in statistics packages such as SPSS
6. Flexibility to adapt to the requirements of the project and role

Desirable criteria

1. Interest in and knowledge of behavioural addiction, specifically gambling
2. Familiarity with NHS systems

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 page. 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.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

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.

Interviews are due to be held on beginning of August 2025.

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearances.