King's College London

About Us

The Academic Teaching Department of Physiotherapy is situated in the School of Life Course & Population Sciences and comprises an expert team of educators providing excellent research enhanced teaching and learning opportunities that prepare over 250 pre-registration Physiotherapy students effectively for working and leadership in the changing health and social care environment. The BSc Physiotherapy Programme is the highest ranked in London in the Complete University Guide 2026.  The Department is based on the beautiful Guy’s campus near London Bridge station and Borough market, and you will have access to the King’s Sport Health and Wellness facilities that are free to all staff. 

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

We are seeking to appoint a physiotherapist with a passion for teaching and learning and a track record of excellence in practice. The successful candidate will join the Academic Department of Physiotherapy and work closely with the team that includes expert educators and research active academics with a diverse range of specialist backgrounds.

Together the staff deliver two innovative pre-registration Physiotherapy programmes (BSc and MSc) that adopt a blended approach to learning and also contribute to the college -wide interprofessional education programmes. We offer a supportive and inclusive environment and access to training opportunities that will support you to develop your knowledge and expertise and to understand the requirements and opportunities of an academic role in a research active institution.

The role will provide an excellent opportunity to develop your teaching skills using a broad range of approaches and learning technologies including the cutting edge Chantler clinical skills centre. You will contribute to module leadership and deliver innovative and evidence-based education on the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and contribute to interprofessional learning for students on health programmes at King’s. In addition, you will contribute to a range of authentic assessment approaches (that prepare our students to be evidence-based person-focussed practitioners) providing timely and constructive feedback that aligns with the college assessment framework.

You will act as a personal tutor to assigned students and provide link tutor support to students and their practice educators during their practice placements where required. In addition, you will undertake administrative tasks such as student admissions including interviews and open days.

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract of one year.

About You

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

Essential criteria

1. Physiotherapy BSc (Hons) or MSc (pre-reg) Physiotherapy with current HCPC or other appropriate registration
2. Masters level qualification relevant to the role
3. Experience of working in higher education and/or substantial experience of practice-based learning supervision
4. Experience of designing and delivering teaching sessions
5. Experience of providing constructive feedback in either a clinical or academic environment
6. Excellent knowledge, practical skill and evidence based clinical reasoning of an area of physiotherapy practice
7. Knowledge and/or experience of contemporary healthcare issues within NHS and the wider health and social care environment
8. Excellent time management and organisation skills & ability to work under pressure to achieve goals and meet deadlines

Desirable criteria

1. Clinical expertise in one of the following: neurorehabilitation, behaviour change and health promotion
2. PhD level qualification and/or relevant post-registration training
3. Teaching qualification

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.

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