King's College London

About Us

The London Institute for Healthcare Engineering (LIHE) is part of the School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. It is key component in delivering the vision for St Thomas’ MedTech Hub. The Institute is housed in a new building on the St Thomas’ campus, bringing together King’s research excellence with Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust’s leading clinical practice and the Medical Device sector’s commercial innovation power and talent, engaging multinationals, SMEs and start-ups simultaneously. Its vision is to accelerate the clinical impact of MedTech innovation by building robust MedTech ventures. It aims to become the hub of all MedTech activity in London and the UK by building a strong ecosystem of all key stakeholders in the industry. 

About The Role

The Clinical Innovation Associate supports the design, delivery, and growth of LIHE’s clinical innovation programmes by serving as a key interface between clinicians, healthcare providers, MedTech companies, and internal teams. The role combines programme coordination, clinician engagement, outreach, thematic development (e.g. surgery, digital health), and partnership building to accelerate the clinical translation of innovative health technologies.

The role reports to the Head of Clinical Translation and Governance and works closely with the Research Translation and Innovation Manager, the Venture Manager and the Director of Commercial Operations and Partnerships to support the delivery of LIHE’s MedTech programmes and partnership activities in relation to clinical translation.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30/09/2026

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Proven track record working in clinical, healthcare innovation, or translational research environments.
2. Demonstrated ability to engage with clinicians, healthcare providers, and external partners.
3. Experience supporting innovation programmes including company selection, alumni engagement, and communication activities.
4. Awareness of HTA, regulatory processes (e.g. QMS), and challenges in MedTech clinical translation.
5. Excellent communication and outreach skills to contribute to promotional content, outreach strategy, and thought leadership activities.
6. Understanding of the digital health ecosystem, including software/AI as a medical device (SaMD/AIaMD).
7. Experience with stakeholder engagement and proven ability to foster strategic relationships with organisations such as the Royal College of Surgeons, NHS trusts, and NIHR.
8. Excellent organisational and planning skills and experience maintaining activity logs, planning strategic engagement (e.g. conferences), and supporting events.

Desirable criteria

1. Medical training or hands-on clinical experience.
2. Experience with developing or delivering training linked to innovation.
3. Knowledge of NHS innovation ecosystem and familiarity with NHS innovation pathways, including NIA, NHS CEP, or similar initiatives.
4. Experience with digital communications and ability to shape messaging and contribute to communications strategies or digital content.
5. Enthusiasm for contributing to thematic focus areas like surgery or AI in healthcare. 

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.