Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
Applied clinical and health research, improving patient outcomes and care
Application has passed - page retained for reference only
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is a world-leading centre for education, training and research. In the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject, we are ranked number 2 in the world for nursing (including midwifery). In addition we hold two Athena Swan Silver awards. The worlds only purpose built Institute for Palliative care, the Cicely Saunders Institute, is part of our Faculty. The successful candidate will be expected to bring a portfolio of world-class research in a field relevant to the faculty, and to use their experience to support development of early-career researchers and students to reach their full potential. An essential criterion for the status of Professor would include an international reputation in the field and an established research programme, a track record of publications and income, and the potential for significant grant income. The successful candidate will have strong leadership, interpersonal and education skills and will champion an inclusive working environment.
Appointment details
Salary
A competitive package and subject to experience
Terms
Department/Division: To be determined. A relevant Faculty Research Division or the Cicely Saunders Institute, given your academic field Period of appointment: Indefinite Contract Responsible for: Research and education in field Campus: TBC depending on expertise
Vacancy ID
069125
Role purpose
The Professor(s) will provide academic leadership within the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care (NMPC), a world-leading centre for education, training and research. We are one of nine Faculties in King’s, benefiting from collaborations and partnership activities with other faculties. Our vision is to lead in transforming health and social care, policy & practice through integrating our cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, evidence-based education and engagement relevant to our fields. The appointed Professor(s) will contribute to the development of their academic field and the Faculty’s and King’s forward strategies. They will be ambitious in capturing external peer review grant income, deliver world leading publications and significant and wide-reaching impact from their research. They will contribute to building capacity and delivering our education programmes, collaborating with others across the faculty and beyond, and contributing to the management and academic leadership of either their Division or the Cicely Saunders Institute.
Role Profile
The successful candidate will be expected to bring a portfolio of world-class research in a field relevant to the faculty, and to use their experience to support development of early-career researchers and students to reach their full potential. An essential criterion for the status of Professor would include an international reputation in the field and an established research programme, a track record of publications and income, and the potential for significant grant income. The successful candidate will have strong leadership, interpersonal and education skills and will champion an inclusive working environment. The post holder will have a track record of world-leading research in a field relevant to the discipline mix within the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care. The post holder will have a proven academic track record in achieving noteworthy publications in top journals and will bring expertise in securing grant income. In addition, they will demonstrate the ability to collaborate with others, and an appreciation for the broader academic offerings within King’s College London. The post holder will also be a supervisor to MSc and PhD students and have post- or undergraduate teaching experience within their field. There is great potential for formal collaborations or links with other Faculties or Schools within King’s College London where this would benefit role delivery.
Main purpose of the role
To conduct independent research and act as chief investigator and project leader, and in so doing: • Attract significant overhead and QR bearing grant research income and/or industrial research income. • Generate world class research publications and impact • Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at King’s in appropriate areas of expertise, including leading relevant programmes or initiatives and supervising PhD students • Solve tomorrow’s problems through ground-breaking research, impact, education and collaboration • Build capacity by fostering the development of themselves, their teams and others, including of PhD students, and research and academic staff and actively participating and leading seminars, workshops etc.
All staff are expected to:
• Positively support equality of opportunity and equity of treatment to colleagues and students in accordance with the College Equal Opportunities Policy • Undertake such other duties within the scope of the post as may be requested by their Head of Department/Division • Contribute to the management and academic leadership of their Division or Institute • Actively participate in relevant academic leadership and team building, role modelling excellence in collaboration and academic standards • Keep up to date with mandatory training and other development • Help to maintain a safe working environment, including attending relevant training and following local codes of safe working practices and the College Health and Safety Policy
Criteria
Education / qualification and training
Essential: • Higher academic degree (PhD or medical equivalent) • Extensive world-leading publication record
Knowledge / skills
Essential: • A world class record of applied health and care or clinical research • Funding: Track record and/or potential to attract substantial external funds • Leadership skills: ability to contribute to academic planning and strategic development • Impact: evidence of delivering wide reaching and significant impact from research • Excellent teaching skills, with evidence of quality peer review teaching
Experience
Essential: • Extensive experience in a relevant field with strong, active network of both internal and external contacts / collaborators across disciplines, and ability to build and maintain partnerships • Experience of supervision of PhD students, and in mentoring and developing junior research colleagues Desirable: • Relevant clinical, health or social care expertise or registration in fields relevant to this role • Track record of successful capacity building • Experience of serving on grant giving and funding committees
Personal characteristics/other requirements
Essential: • Ability to communicate effectively with academic, clinical, and managerial colleagues. • Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Desirable: • Ability to identify new research opportunities and collaborative partnerships.
Role specific requirements
Essential: • Self-motivation, productivity and intelligent innovation Desirable: • Proven commitment to one or more of the fields relevant to the faculty, and a network of successful collaborations that will benefit our future directions
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is a world-leading centre for education, training and research. In the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject, we are ranked number 2 in the world for nursing (including midwifery). In addition, we hold two Athena Swan Silver awards. The world’s only purpose built Institute for Palliative care, the Cicely Saunders Institute, is part of our Faculty. 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 outputs rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), and in 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. For the last five years, King’s has been number 2 in the world and number 1 in Europe for Nursing (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal).
The Faculty is located at two London campuses - King’s College Hospital in Camberwell/Denmark Hill, James Clark Maxwell Building at Waterloo. The Faculty has a new research strategy, that created distinct research divisions alongside the Cicely Saunders Institute, and a new Nightingale-Saunders Complex Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Unit, led by Professor Toby Prevost. The Trials Unit is part of the King’s College London NIHR accredited Clinical Trials Unit. This investment forms part of our strategy to broaden and deepen our strengths, signalling the commitment to academic leadership and world class impactful applied health and care research. Our vision is to pioneer the very best in health and care by integrating lead in evidence-based health and social care that innovates and transforms care & practice through integrating our cutting-edge research, education and engagement in nursing, midwifery, palliative care and rehabilitation and builds a cadre of future world leaders. We achieve this through excellent and impactful interdisciplinary and collaborative applied research and quality education relevant to nursing, midwifery and palliative care. Our applied clinical and health research seeks to improve the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for, to benefit our local and global communities. We develop, understand and evaluate sustainable health and social care therapies, treatments, services, and create new knowledge that respond to the challenges of tomorrow and today, take account of the whole person in their context. This world-leading research impacts and influences healthcare experiences and outcomes for and those important to them.
The Faculty led winning a new NIHR Policy Research Unit for palliative and end of life care, as well as being leading contributors or co-leads for renew of two existing NIHR Public Research Units, on Mental Health and Health and Social Care Workforce as part of support from NIHR of £25m funding to tackle health and social care issues. The Faculty was a leading partner in the new UKRI supported King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub. The Faculty holds multiple awards, project grants and training awards from UKRI, NIHR, EC and many relevant charities.
Our innovation in education, training and engagement seeks to inspire and equipe tomorrow's leaders. We actively engage patients and the public, and seek to advance policy and practice locally, nationally and globally. Across all activity we build capacity, and a pipeline of future leaders. Our Values include: equality and equity, inclusivity, respect and diversity, challenge and support, representation, leadership and role modelling, co-creating and improving, collaborating and shaping, integration. We are actively committed to improving equality, diversity and inclusion. Our academics work with other universities, industry, healthcare providers and policy makers both locally and globally, to ensure that our research is relevant and influence policy and government on nursing, midwifery and palliative care.
About King's
King’s College London offers an intellectually stimulating environment, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning in the service of society. We are a multi-faculty institution, providing high-quality research, education and innovation across the social sciences, humanities, medicine, law, dentistry, and sciences. As a member of the Russell Group, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in research and education. King’s College London is amongst the top 35 universities in the world and top 10 in Europe (THE World University Rankings 2023) and is one of England’s oldest and most prestigious universities. Based in the heart of London, King’s has over 45,000 students (including more than 19,000 postgraduates) from some 150 countries, and over 10,000 employees.
King’s vision is to make the world a better place through world-leading education, research and service to society. King’s provides world-class education which enables students to become rounded critical thinkers, set up for success and with the character and wisdom to strive for social change. Through enquiry-driven research, King's delivers transformative insights and solutions that have the power to advance and accelerate global progress. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 exercise, King’s maintained its 6th position for ‘research power’ in the UK, 6th by Quality Index, and was ranked 3rd amongst multi-Faculty universities for impact. 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.
Nine Academic Faculties
King’s has nine academic faculties, with health research and education at King’s comprising four interdisciplinary faculties – the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience is a leading centre for mental health and neuroscience research in Europe. It produces more highly cited outputs (top 1% citations) on psychiatry and mental health than any other centre (SciVal 2021), and on this metric has risen from 16th (2014) to 4th (2021) in the world for highly cited neuroscience outputs. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), 90% of research at the IoPPN was deemed ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). World-leading research from the IoPPN has made, and continues to make, an impact on how we understand, prevent and treat mental illness, neurological conditions, and other conditions that affect the brain. King’s Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine is one of the largest and most successful centres for research and education in the UK. Our schools of education deliver a comprehensive education and training portfolio, including undergraduate health and a suite of related BSc programmes in Biomedical Sciences. The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) is part of an investment plan of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council investment, with the King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub (£2.6m award) supporting the development of new digital technologies and reduce the time it takes for these to benefit patients. The Faculty is also home to the Respiratory Physiology and Medicine Group which aims to better our understanding of respiratory physiology in health & disease with the aim of improving clinical care. The Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences is one of the world’s centres of excellence for dental education, oral and craniofacial scientific research, and oral healthcare provision, ranked 1st globally for dentistry in the QS World University Rankings 2020. In collaboration with our London teaching hospital partners – Guy’s, King’s College, and St Thomas’ – we train dental professionals at all levels, and undertake and actively promote world-class scientific, clinical and translational research focused around three key areas.
The other faculties at King’s represent wider interdisciplinary opportunities including across arts & sciences. Within our Faculty of Natural, Mathematics & Engineering Sciences is King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence bringing together the diverse and growing community in artificial intelligence (AI) at the university, whilst the London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare uses advanced imaging and AI technologies to optimise both patient care and hospital operations. Our Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is home to the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, which has been funded again as part of a recent £25m funding to tackle health and social care issues. The College is also home to the Faculty of Arts & Humanities; the Dickson Poon School of Law; and the King’s Business School, all stand-alone faculties.
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About King's
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Application has passed - page retained for reference only
Please quote the vacancy id: 069125 in all correspondence.
Closing date for applications: 10 October 2023 23:59
Interview date: 10 November 2023
Second interview date: 08 December 2023
Application process
To apply for this post you will need to register on the King’s College London job opportunities page and submit the application form, along with the following: • a concise statement setting out your reasons for applying for the post and highlighting the particular skills and experience which you feel you would bring to the role (two pages maximum) • a curriculum vitae
Contact the team
For an informal discussion or to find out more about the role please contact the King’s Search Team.
Selection process
Applications will be shortlisted by a selection committee drawn from across the Faculty, and wider College representatives. This will be a two stage interview process with the final panel being chaired by the Vice President (Research & Innovation) and will include the Executive Dean and representatives from across the Faculty, wider College, and external input.
Equal Opportunities
King’s College London recognises that equality of opportunity and the recognition and promotion of diversity are integral to its academic and economic strengths. The following principles apply in respect of the university’s commitment to equality and diversity: • To provide and promote equality of opportunity in all areas of its work and activity; • To recognise and develop the diversity of skills and talent within its current and potential community; • To ensure that all university members and prospective members are treated solely on the basis of their merits, abilities and potential without receiving any unjustified discrimination or unfavourable treatment on grounds such as age, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trans status, socio-economic status or any other irrelevant distinction; • To provide and promote a positive working, learning, and social environment which is free from prejudice, discrimination and any forms of harassment, bullying or victimisation; • To foster good relations between individuals from different groups and tackle prejudice and promote understanding. King’s has been a member of the Athena SWAN Charter since 2007 and first gained its Bronze institutional award in 2008. Our award was successfully renewed in 2016 for a further four years. The Athena SWAN agenda forms part of a wider suite of diversity and inclusion work streams. Working with the Charter is helping King’s to identify best practice for the working environment of all staff working in science disciplines.
Role purpose
The Professor(s) will provide academic leadership within the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care (NMPC), a world-leading centre for education, training and research. We are one of nine Faculties in King’s, benefiting from collaborations and partnership activities with other faculties. Our vision is to lead in transforming health and social care, policy & practice through integrating our cutting-edge interdisciplinary research, evidence-based education and engagement relevant to our fields. The appointed Professor(s) will contribute to the development of their academic field and the Faculty’s and King’s forward strategies. They will be ambitious in capturing external peer review grant income, deliver world leading publications and significant and wide-reaching impact from their research. They will contribute to building capacity and delivering our education programmes, collaborating with others across the faculty and beyond, and contributing to the management and academic leadership of either their Division or the Cicely Saunders Institute.
Role Profile
The successful candidate will be expected to bring a portfolio of world-class research in a field relevant to the faculty, and to use their experience to support development of early-career researchers and students to reach their full potential. An essential criterion for the status of Professor would include an international reputation in the field and an established research programme, a track record of publications and income, and the potential for significant grant income. The successful candidate will have strong leadership, interpersonal and education skills and will champion an inclusive working environment. The post holder will have a track record of world-leading research in a field relevant to the discipline mix within the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery, and Palliative Care. The post holder will have a proven academic track record in achieving noteworthy publications in top journals and will bring expertise in securing grant income. In addition, they will demonstrate the ability to collaborate with others, and an appreciation for the broader academic offerings within King’s College London. The post holder will also be a supervisor to MSc and PhD students and have post- or undergraduate teaching experience within their field. There is great potential for formal collaborations or links with other Faculties or Schools within King’s College London where this would benefit role delivery.
Main purpose of the role
To conduct independent research and act as chief investigator and project leader, and in so doing: • Attract significant overhead and QR bearing grant research income and/or industrial research income. • Generate world class research publications and impact • Participate in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at King’s in appropriate areas of expertise, including leading relevant programmes or initiatives and supervising PhD students • Solve tomorrow’s problems through ground-breaking research, impact, education and collaboration • Build capacity by fostering the development of themselves, their teams and others, including of PhD students, and research and academic staff and actively participating and leading seminars, workshops etc.
All staff are expected to:
• Positively support equality of opportunity and equity of treatment to colleagues and students in accordance with the College Equal Opportunities Policy • Undertake such other duties within the scope of the post as may be requested by their Head of Department/Division • Contribute to the management and academic leadership of their Division or Institute • Actively participate in relevant academic leadership and team building, role modelling excellence in collaboration and academic standards • Keep up to date with mandatory training and other development • Help to maintain a safe working environment, including attending relevant training and following local codes of safe working practices and the College Health and Safety Policy
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
Applied clinical and health research, improving patient outcomes and care
Criteria
Education / qualification and training
Essential: • Higher academic degree (PhD or medical equivalent) • Extensive world-leading publication record
Knowledge / skills
Essential: • A world class record of applied health and care or clinical research • Funding: Track record and/or potential to attract substantial external funds • Leadership skills: ability to contribute to academic planning and strategic development • Impact: evidence of delivering wide reaching and significant impact from research • Excellent teaching skills, with evidence of quality peer review teaching
Experience
Essential: • Extensive experience in a relevant field with strong, active network of both internal and external contacts / collaborators across disciplines, and ability to build and maintain partnerships • Experience of supervision of PhD students, and in mentoring and developing junior research colleagues Desirable: • Relevant clinical, health or social care expertise or registration in fields relevant to this role • Track record of successful capacity building • Experience of serving on grant giving and funding committees
Personal characteristics/other requirements
Essential: • Ability to communicate effectively with academic, clinical, and managerial colleagues. • Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries. Desirable: • Ability to identify new research opportunities and collaborative partnerships.
Role specific requirements
Essential: • Self-motivation, productivity and intelligent innovation Desirable: • Proven commitment to one or more of the fields relevant to the faculty, and a network of successful collaborations that will benefit our future directions
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) is a world-leading centre for education, training and research. In the latest QS World University Rankings by Subject, we are ranked number 2 in the world for nursing (including midwifery). In addition, we hold two Athena Swan Silver awards. The world’s only purpose built Institute for Palliative care, the Cicely Saunders Institute, is part of our Faculty. 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 outputs rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), and in 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. For the last five years, King’s has been number 2 in the world and number 1 in Europe for Nursing (QS world rankings). King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal).
The Faculty is located at two London campuses - King’s College Hospital in Camberwell/Denmark Hill, James Clark Maxwell Building at Waterloo. The Faculty has a new research strategy, that created distinct research divisions alongside the Cicely Saunders Institute, and a new Nightingale-Saunders Complex Clinical Trials and Epidemiology Unit, led by Professor Toby Prevost. The Trials Unit is part of the King’s College London NIHR accredited Clinical Trials Unit. This investment forms part of our strategy to broaden and deepen our strengths, signalling the commitment to academic leadership and world class impactful applied health and care research. Our vision is to pioneer the very best in health and care by integrating lead in evidence-based health and social care that innovates and transforms care & practice through integrating our cutting-edge research, education and engagement in nursing, midwifery, palliative care and rehabilitation and builds a cadre of future world leaders. We achieve this through excellent and impactful interdisciplinary and collaborative applied research and quality education relevant to nursing, midwifery and palliative care. Our applied clinical and health research seeks to improve the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for, to benefit our local and global communities. We develop, understand and evaluate sustainable health and social care therapies, treatments, services, and create new knowledge that respond to the challenges of tomorrow and today, take account of the whole person in their context. This world-leading research impacts and influences healthcare experiences and outcomes for and those important to them.
The Faculty led winning a new NIHR Policy Research Unit for palliative and end of life care, as well as being leading contributors or co-leads for renew of two existing NIHR Public Research Units, on Mental Health and Health and Social Care Workforce as part of support from NIHR of £25m funding to tackle health and social care issues. The Faculty was a leading partner in the new UKRI supported King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub. The Faculty holds multiple awards, project grants and training awards from UKRI, NIHR, EC and many relevant charities.
Our innovation in education, training and engagement seeks to inspire and equipe tomorrow's leaders. We actively engage patients and the public, and seek to advance policy and practice locally, nationally and globally. Across all activity we build capacity, and a pipeline of future leaders. Our Values include: equality and equity, inclusivity, respect and diversity, challenge and support, representation, leadership and role modelling, co-creating and improving, collaborating and shaping, integration. We are actively committed to improving equality, diversity and inclusion. Our academics work with other universities, industry, healthcare providers and policy makers both locally and globally, to ensure that our research is relevant and influence policy and government on nursing, midwifery and palliative care.
About King's
King’s College London offers an intellectually stimulating environment, where staff are dedicated to the advancement of knowledge and learning in the service of society. We are a multi-faculty institution, providing high-quality research, education and innovation across the social sciences, humanities, medicine, law, dentistry, and sciences. As a member of the Russell Group, we are committed to maintaining the highest standards in research and education. King’s College London is amongst the top 35 universities in the world and top 10 in Europe (THE World University Rankings 2023) and is one of England’s oldest and most prestigious universities. Based in the heart of London, King’s has over 45,000 students (including more than 19,000 postgraduates) from some 150 countries, and over 10,000 employees.
King’s vision is to make the world a better place through world-leading education, research and service to society. King’s provides world-class education which enables students to become rounded critical thinkers, set up for success and with the character and wisdom to strive for social change. Through enquiry-driven research, King's delivers transformative insights and solutions that have the power to advance and accelerate global progress. In the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 exercise, King’s maintained its 6th position for ‘research power’ in the UK, 6th by Quality Index, and was ranked 3rd amongst multi-Faculty universities for impact. 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.
Nine Academic Faculties
King’s has nine academic faculties, with health research and education at King’s comprising four interdisciplinary faculties – the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Palliative Care, the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, the Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences, and the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience. The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience is a leading centre for mental health and neuroscience research in Europe. It produces more highly cited outputs (top 1% citations) on psychiatry and mental health than any other centre (SciVal 2021), and on this metric has risen from 16th (2014) to 4th (2021) in the world for highly cited neuroscience outputs. In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework (REF), 90% of research at the IoPPN was deemed ‘world leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). World-leading research from the IoPPN has made, and continues to make, an impact on how we understand, prevent and treat mental illness, neurological conditions, and other conditions that affect the brain. King’s Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine is one of the largest and most successful centres for research and education in the UK. Our schools of education deliver a comprehensive education and training portfolio, including undergraduate health and a suite of related BSc programmes in Biomedical Sciences. The School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences (BMEIS) is part of an investment plan of an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council investment, with the King’s Health Partners Digital Health Hub (£2.6m award) supporting the development of new digital technologies and reduce the time it takes for these to benefit patients. The Faculty is also home to the Respiratory Physiology and Medicine Group which aims to better our understanding of respiratory physiology in health & disease with the aim of improving clinical care. The Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences is one of the world’s centres of excellence for dental education, oral and craniofacial scientific research, and oral healthcare provision, ranked 1st globally for dentistry in the QS World University Rankings 2020. In collaboration with our London teaching hospital partners – Guy’s, King’s College, and St Thomas’ – we train dental professionals at all levels, and undertake and actively promote world-class scientific, clinical and translational research focused around three key areas.
The other faculties at King’s represent wider interdisciplinary opportunities including across arts & sciences. Within our Faculty of Natural, Mathematics & Engineering Sciences is King’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence bringing together the diverse and growing community in artificial intelligence (AI) at the university, whilst the London Medical Imaging and AI Centre for Value-Based Healthcare uses advanced imaging and AI technologies to optimise both patient care and hospital operations. Our Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy is home to the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, which has been funded again as part of a recent £25m funding to tackle health and social care issues. The College is also home to the Faculty of Arts & Humanities; the Dickson Poon School of Law; and the King’s Business School, all stand-alone faculties.
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About King's
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Application has passed - page retained for reference only
Please quote the vacancy id: 069125 in all correspondence.
Closing date for applications: 10 October 2023 23:59
Interview date: 10 November 2023
Second interview date: 08 December 2023
Application process
To apply for this post you will need to register on the King’s College London job opportunities page and submit the application form, along with the following: • a concise statement setting out your reasons for applying for the post and highlighting the particular skills and experience which you feel you would bring to the role (two pages maximum) • a curriculum vitae
Contact the team
For an informal discussion or to find out more about the role please contact the King’s Search Team.
Selection process
Applications will be shortlisted by a selection committee drawn from across the Faculty, and wider College representatives. This will be a two stage interview process with the final panel being chaired by the Vice President (Research & Innovation) and will include the Executive Dean and representatives from across the Faculty, wider College, and external input.
Equal Opportunities
King’s College London recognises that equality of opportunity and the recognition and promotion of diversity are integral to its academic and economic strengths. The following principles apply in respect of the university’s commitment to equality and diversity: • To provide and promote equality of opportunity in all areas of its work and activity; • To recognise and develop the diversity of skills and talent within its current and potential community; • To ensure that all university members and prospective members are treated solely on the basis of their merits, abilities and potential without receiving any unjustified discrimination or unfavourable treatment on grounds such as age, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, trans status, socio-economic status or any other irrelevant distinction; • To provide and promote a positive working, learning, and social environment which is free from prejudice, discrimination and any forms of harassment, bullying or victimisation; • To foster good relations between individuals from different groups and tackle prejudice and promote understanding. King’s has been a member of the Athena SWAN Charter since 2007 and first gained its Bronze institutional award in 2008. Our award was successfully renewed in 2016 for a further four years. The Athena SWAN agenda forms part of a wider suite of diversity and inclusion work streams. Working with the Charter is helping King’s to identify best practice for the working environment of all staff working in science disciplines.