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.

​As of 2026, King’s is top-two in the world for Nursing and #1 in the UK for the 8th year in a row (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

The post-holder will provide research administrative support to the Centre of Excellence in Paediatric Palliative Care team at the Cicely Saunders Institute. The team consists of ~20 academics, researchers and PhD students and is led by Professor Lorna Fraser. The role includes managing Prof Fraser’s diary, communication with external partners, monitoring project tasks and milestones, meeting coordination and administration, processing orders and expenses, and formatting and proofing reports and publications.

This is a part time post (17.5 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract of 24 months.

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.

Location: Hybrid – minimum of 1 day per week [Wednesday] on campus at Denmark Hill

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Degree, preferably in relevant area
2. Good written and oral communication skills, including the ability to adapt communication as appropriate to the situation
3. Good time management skills with ability to multi-task and prioritise and complete tasks within a set deadline
4. Strong organisational and planning skills, with a proven ability to support delivery of projects
5. IT literacy to high standard (word processing and typing skills, preparation of presentations and spreadsheets) with understanding of dealing with confidential information
6. Excellent relationship building skills, such as with public members, researchers and external networks
7. Ability to work independently and as part of a team including researchers, clinicians and patient and public members

Desirable criteria

1. Administrative qualification and experience
2. Experience dealing with academic reports and manuscripts, including referencing

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

At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.

We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance.

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 person specification section of the job description. 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.

We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.

We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.

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

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service clearances.