King's College London

About Us

The  School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 500 experts in a wide range of population health sciences including women and children’s health, life course sciences, nutritional sciences, Health AI, preventive medicine and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.

About the role

At a pivotal moment for rehabilitation, population health and health-services research, the appointee will provide academic leadership in public health and rehabilitation science. They will develop an internationally excellent, impactful research programme addressing the delivery, organisation, evaluation and implementation of rehabilitation and physiotherapy-related care, with particular attention to function, recovery, long-term conditions, frailty, ageing, disability, health inequalities and patient/carer outcomes.

The postholder will help shape and lead public health research across the King’s Population Health Institute, the School of Life Course & Population Health Sciences, and King’s Health Partners, including collaborative grant development, postgraduate supervision, and cross‑disciplinary partnerships - enhancing King’s contribution to policy and society locally, nationally and globally.

As strategic lead for the MSc Public Health (Online), they will integrate research into lectures, seminars and asynchronous learning, champion inclusive digital pedagogy, and provide excellent pastoral support that inspires future public health leaders and evidence‑based practitioners.

This is a full time role (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. PhD in Public Health, rehabilitation science, physiotherapy, health services research, implementation science, epidemiology, behavioural science, clinical sciences or a closely related discipline
2. Professionally trained and registered as a Public Health professional
3. Strong track record of high quality, peer reviewed publications and a clear, independent research agenda aligned to public health priorities as well as success in securing competitive external research funding (or clear trajectory toward it)
4. Evidence of external research funding as PI/Co-I, or a strong trajectory toward competitive funding, in areas relevant to rehabilitation, public health, clinical practice, service delivery or implementation
5. Record of teaching and assessment in higher education, health professions education, rehabilitation science, public health, research methods or related fields
6. Demonstrable expertise in digital/online and blended learning with evidence of inclusive educational practice that improves access, participation, and student success
7. Proven academic leadership with mentoring of staff and supervision of postgraduate students, contributing to a positive research/learning culture
8. Recognised teaching qualification and/or Higher Education Academy (Advance HE) accreditation (FHEA/SFHEA) or equivalent, or commitment to obtain within 12 months

Desirable criteria

1. Experience with accreditation processes (e.g., APHEA or equivalent)
2. Experience designing CPD, short courses, or professional training programmes

Reader-level expectations across criteria include greater external visibility and esteem (e.g., editorial boards, guideline/policy contributions, invited keynotes); stronger evidence of leading large/complex grants and multi partner consortia; track record of supervising to completion and mentoring colleagues to promotion/recognition and demonstrable impact on policy/practice and contributions to REF relevant outputs and impact casework.

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.

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