Our Principles in Action
Our inclusive and welcoming community embraces a culture with a deep respect for individual differences and collaboration
Why choose 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 in the country 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 2025, King's has been ranked 1st place in the world for Nursing in the QS World Rankings by Subject. King’s produces more highly cited research outputs (top 1% citations) on palliative care than any other centre internationally (SciVal). The 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 and Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe. Our applied clinical and health research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. We are committed to staff development, and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.
Appointment details
Reports to: Professor Richard Harding
Salary
Competitive
Terms
Full time (35 hours per week) However, we offer flexibility for part-time working.
Period of Appointment
The professorial appointment will be offered on an indefinite contract. The Vice Dean People & Culture appointment will be offered on a 5-year term alongside the substantive professorial role.
Closing date for applications:
03 June 2025 23:59
Vacancy ID
110006
Vice Dean (People & Culture) role
Role purpose
The role will be line-managed by the Executive Dean and will work closely with the Executive Dean and join the Dean’s Senior Team (Vice Dean (Research), Vice Dean (Education), Vice Dean (International, Engagement & Service) and the Director of Operations). The postholder will provide strategic direction and delivery on “People & Culture” opportunities and processes within the Faculty, including recruitment, probation, promotion, and Performance Development Reviews to support and advance Academic Education Pathway (AEP) academics and those on Education and Research (E&R) contracts (clinical and non-clinical). The postholder will line manage the Associate Dean (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), ensuring that ED&I is planned and executed to achieve optimal outcomes for staff and students. The postholder will ensure that our Faculty staff are enabled to reach their potential in line with our Faculty strategic goals. They will seek to ensure that out Faculty does so in a way that shares a common vision of academic success, supports individuals to identify their development and delivery goals, and supports them to achieve it, while ensuring that we do so in an equitable and inclusive way that encourages diversity. The postholder will work to set a vision of aspiration, equality and success in education and research in collaboration with the Dean’s Senior Team.
Key responsibilities
• To provide support to the Academic Promotions process (for those on E&R and AEP contracts including honorary contracts) within the faculty, liaising with our Senior HR Business Partner to initiate activities to encourage engagement and success. • To provide oversight and due process relating to academic probation, to ensure implementation of policy and to support teaching department and research division leadership to maximise individual success. • In liaison with the Faculty ED&I and academic leads for Athena SWAN, Race Equality and other Partnerships and Charter Marks, to facilitate the uptake of mentoring from staff and PGRs within the faculty. Identifying where needs exist and signposting to central College, or other schemes. • To facilitate awareness of central College welfare support for staff. • To deputise for the Executive Dean. • To work with central College teams to develop relevant and impactful policy and implementation plans to maximise recruitment, retention and advancement of Faculty staff. • To liaise with Deans/Vice/Associate Deans with a similar role responsibility in other Faculties. • To inform the Faculty’s organisational development activities, to ensure that interventions to shape organisational culture and retain and progress diverse talent, are in alignment with the Faculty’s strategy and King’s Strategic Vision 2029. • To provide high level advocacy for ED&I activities, working with the Associate Dean (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), the Dean’s Senior Team, and the Faculty ED&I Structure to establish visible and committed leadership of activities. • To promote and support initiatives to develop emerging and under-represented talent with the aim to remove barriers and create a truly diverse and inclusive community. • To work with the Vice-President (People & Talent)/Chief People Officer’s team to inform and implement policy and strategy. • To line manage the Associate Dean (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) and be ultimately responsible for the implementation of ED&I and related policies. • To champion a positive culture within the faculty, including working with Vice Dean (Research), Vice Dean (Education) and Professional Services teams on initiatives to support a vibrant & supportive research and education cultures. • To work with the Vice Deans to promote and encourage the integration of EDI in research, enterprise and education and ensure that these activities are represented in planning processes. • To work with the Vice Deans, Senior HR Business Partner, and central services to consider and promote academic, teaching and research staff working practices including career development and mentoring opportunities. • To provide strategic leadership in the areas of diversity, development and cultural change across the Faculty. • To provide thought leadership on innovation in direct relationship to diversity, inclusion and cultural change. • To work with Executive Dean, Director of Operations and Strategic Projects Manager (Education), to instigate and lead interventions that centre on people and culture, with a view to enhancing the experience for all within the Faculty and distinguish the Faculty as innovative thought leaders within the fields of diversity, development and inclusion. • To work with the Faculty Executive, provide strategic direction to the Faculty’s priorities for People and Culture, contributing to the setting and delivery of objectives and performance indicators. • To raise the profile of Faculty People and Culture work throughout the Faculty.
Other Responsibilities
• To actively participate in the promotion of the Faculty locally, nationally and internationally and to otherwise enhance the standing of the Institute through scholarship and/or improvement in activities leading to esteem factors of national/international importance.
Special Requirements
• The post-holder may be required to work irregular hours in accordance with the needs of the role. • Information of a confidential nature must be kept strictly confidential and should never be disclosed either inside or outside work. It should be noted that breach of confidentiality is a serious offence which may lead to dismissal. • Please note this role description reflects the core activities of the role. There may be changes in the emphasis of duties and it is expected that the role-holder recognises this, adopting a flexible approach to work and willingness to participate in training.
Our expectations
There are a number of duties and responsibilities that we ask all employees to be familiar with and adhere to. We ask that the successful candidate: • Positively contributes to an environment at King’s that truly represents Our Principles in Action and where every individual feels safe, secure and supported. • Always complies with the requirements of health and safety regulations to ensure their own wellbeing and that of their colleagues. • Has an understanding of sustainability, including its impact on the University and the work we do, and engages in sustainable practices in the workplace. • Ensures they are working in a safe environment, where they comply with our Health and Safety regulations and ensure confidentiality, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity. • Complies with King’s protocols on the appropriate use of telephone, email and internet facilities.
Professorial role
Role purpose
Applications are invited for a Vice Dean (People & Culture) and new Research Professor in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) with the skills and commitment to drive an ambitious vision in applied health research and education relevant to our fields for the 21st century. The roles provide an excellent opportunity and platform that enables those appointed to advance their own research and to impactfully contribute within relevant fields. Given King’s breadth of disciplines, collaboration with other King's faculties is encouraged (health faculties and beyond). The unique range of world-leading Faculties at KCL offers great opportunity for interdisciplinary research and teaching. The appointed Professor will embrace the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow through a commitment to research excellence, grant capture, impact, capacity building, collaboration and education. Clinical colleagues seeking honorary appointments are welcomed. We particularly encourage applications from academics from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, as these groups are currently under-represented in our leadership. The Professor(s) will provide academic leadership within NMPC. They will lead sustainable, high quality, applied health research that benefits our local, national and global communities. They will be expected to be ambitious in capturing grant income and publishing high quality outputs, leading to a step change contribution to the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care and their academic field. They will foster interdisciplinary partnerships that increase the quality of their research and education and deliver impacts to benefit society. They will contribute to postgraduate and undergraduate education, including PhD supervision and delivering lectures and seminars, growing our post-graduate taught and interdisciplinary education, contribute to development and capacity building in the Faculty, across King’s and their field. The appointed Chair 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 their Research Division.
Role Profile
The successful candidate(s) 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. They would be expected to hold an international reputation in the field and have an established research programme, a track record of publications and income, and the potential for significant grant income in a field relevant to the discipline mix within NMPC. The successful candidate(s) will have strong leadership, interpersonal and education skills and will champion an inclusive working environment. 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. It is essential that applicants have the enthusiasm and commitment required to contribute to the further development of the research standing of the faculty, and to contribute to teaching and administrative activities. We are committed to continually improving the diversity of our workforce, and therefore we encourage applications from all groups. This includes from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups, the LGBTQI+ community, those who are neurodiverse and those with a disability.
Key responsibilities
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. • Develop their own team of academics and researchers and to mentor them to independence. • To contribute to the faculty’s leadership and management. • 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. • To develop meaningful collaborations with our other world-leading Faculties at KCL and with other high-ranking Universities. In addition, all academic 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. The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
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Post title: Vice Dean People & Culture
Criteria
Essential
1. Appropriate academic standing to gain and retain credibility as a leader. 2. Have knowledge of strategic development and leadership and change management/delivery. Knowledge of higher education senior management would also be beneficial. 3. Possess excellent oral and written communication skills. 4. Be a pragmatic problem solver with tact and determination and the ability to form good professional relationships at all levels. 5. Track record in the development of others to achieve the criteria for success in UK academia. 6. Have a strong personal commitment to the principles and practice of equality, diversity and inclusion. 7. Leadership: i.e. ability to consistently and effectively demonstrate leadership behaviours, including empowering and/or delegating, while providing strategic direction, strong management, support, influencing skills and empathy. 8. Experience of encouraging and fostering developing, such as supporting Early Career Researchers in their development.
Desirable
1. Experience in a previous faculty leadership role. 2. Experience of leadership in probation promotion and similar activities in the academic sector.
Post title: Professor
Criteria
Essential
1. Higher academic degree (PhD or medical equivalent). 2. A world class record of applied health and care or clinical research evidenced by: a. An extensive world-leading publication record. b. Funding, an excellent track record of peer review income and potential and plans to attract external peer review funds. c. Extensive experience in a relevant field with strong, active network of both internal and external contacts / collaborators across disciplines, and ability to forge and maintain partnerships with other leaders and centres of excellence. 3. Leadership skills: ability to contribute to academic planning and strategic development and to developing others. 4. Impact: evidence of delivering wide reaching and significant impact from research. 5. Excellent teaching and communication skills, with evidence of quality peer review teaching. 6. Experience of supervision of PhD students, and in mentoring and developing junior research colleagues. 7. Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries, with self-motivation. 8. Commitment and track record in promoting equality, diversity & inclusivity for staff and students.
Desirable
1. Relevant clinical, health or social care expertise or registration in fields relevant to this role. 2. Experience of serving on grant giving and funding committees. 3. Ability to identify new research opportunities and collaborative partnerships. 4. 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. 5. PGT and/ or education development experience.
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The main aim of King’s Health Partners is to improve NHS care for patients by putting new research findings into practice
About King’s
King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. We are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Through our commitment to exceptional education, impactful research, and genuine service to society, we are creating positive change in our communities, both in London and on the world stage. Our Vision 2029 looks forward to our 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out our ambitious plans in five key areas: • Educating the next generation of change-makers; • Challenging ideas and driving change through research; • Giving back to society through meaningful service; • Working with our local communities in London; • Fostering global citizens with an international perspective; King’s comprises nine faculties, each with an academic leader and professional services lead: Executive Dean of Faculty and Director of Operations. Professional Services are provided in every Faculty as well as centrally to deliver support services for students and staff. Our faculties • Faculty of Arts & Humanities • Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences • Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine • Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences • Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy • Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care • Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience • King’s Business School • The Dickson Poon School of Law
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). We currently have around 3,700 undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research students and around 225 academic, and research and clinical staff, supported by 80 professional services staff. The faculty is a major contributor to the London, UK and increasingly international nursing, midwifery and palliative care workforce. The Faculty has its origins in the work of two remarkable women. Florence Nightingale, who established the first professional nurse training school at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1860, and Dame Cicely Saunders, noted for her work in palliative care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement. We are committed to shaping the future of healthcare and promoting education, research and networks, underpinned by our central belief in a robust, evidence-based approach. The Faculty is located at two London campuses - King’s College Hospital in Camberwell/Denmark Hill, James Clark Maxwell Building at Waterloo. 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.
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.
Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care
We improve and transform health and care so that people can live better from the start to the end of their lives
Cicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation
The premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams
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Closing date for applications: 03 June 2025 23:59
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
Equal opportunities
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion are central tenets of King’s Vision 2029 which sets out the roadmap for King’s ambition to provide an exceptional student experience and to be an employer of choice. Integral to this is ensuring equality of opportunity and outcome, recognising, celebrating and improving our diversity and inclusion. As a responsible employer we aim 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. Our commitment to inclusion means that King’s aims to create an environment where differences are not just respected, but also valued and celebrated. Everyone should be able to bring their whole self to King’s. All King’s students, staff and affiliates are responsible for meeting these commitments to value diversity and create an inclusive environment. King's will support and equip all members of its community to do this, embedding inclusion throughout the university’s policies, procedures, and practices.
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Vice Dean (People & Culture) role
Role purpose
The role will be line-managed by the Executive Dean and will work closely with the Executive Dean and join the Dean’s Senior Team (Vice Dean (Research), Vice Dean (Education), Vice Dean (International, Engagement & Service) and the Director of Operations). The postholder will provide strategic direction and delivery on “People & Culture” opportunities and processes within the Faculty, including recruitment, probation, promotion, and Performance Development Reviews to support and advance Academic Education Pathway (AEP) academics and those on Education and Research (E&R) contracts (clinical and non-clinical). The postholder will line manage the Associate Dean (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), ensuring that ED&I is planned and executed to achieve optimal outcomes for staff and students. The postholder will ensure that our Faculty staff are enabled to reach their potential in line with our Faculty strategic goals. They will seek to ensure that out Faculty does so in a way that shares a common vision of academic success, supports individuals to identify their development and delivery goals, and supports them to achieve it, while ensuring that we do so in an equitable and inclusive way that encourages diversity. The postholder will work to set a vision of aspiration, equality and success in education and research in collaboration with the Dean’s Senior Team.
Key responsibilities
• To provide support to the Academic Promotions process (for those on E&R and AEP contracts including honorary contracts) within the faculty, liaising with our Senior HR Business Partner to initiate activities to encourage engagement and success. • To provide oversight and due process relating to academic probation, to ensure implementation of policy and to support teaching department and research division leadership to maximise individual success. • In liaison with the Faculty ED&I and academic leads for Athena SWAN, Race Equality and other Partnerships and Charter Marks, to facilitate the uptake of mentoring from staff and PGRs within the faculty. Identifying where needs exist and signposting to central College, or other schemes. • To facilitate awareness of central College welfare support for staff. • To deputise for the Executive Dean. • To work with central College teams to develop relevant and impactful policy and implementation plans to maximise recruitment, retention and advancement of Faculty staff. • To liaise with Deans/Vice/Associate Deans with a similar role responsibility in other Faculties. • To inform the Faculty’s organisational development activities, to ensure that interventions to shape organisational culture and retain and progress diverse talent, are in alignment with the Faculty’s strategy and King’s Strategic Vision 2029. • To provide high level advocacy for ED&I activities, working with the Associate Dean (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion), the Dean’s Senior Team, and the Faculty ED&I Structure to establish visible and committed leadership of activities. • To promote and support initiatives to develop emerging and under-represented talent with the aim to remove barriers and create a truly diverse and inclusive community. • To work with the Vice-President (People & Talent)/Chief People Officer’s team to inform and implement policy and strategy. • To line manage the Associate Dean (Equality, Diversity & Inclusion) and be ultimately responsible for the implementation of ED&I and related policies. • To champion a positive culture within the faculty, including working with Vice Dean (Research), Vice Dean (Education) and Professional Services teams on initiatives to support a vibrant & supportive research and education cultures. • To work with the Vice Deans to promote and encourage the integration of EDI in research, enterprise and education and ensure that these activities are represented in planning processes. • To work with the Vice Deans, Senior HR Business Partner, and central services to consider and promote academic, teaching and research staff working practices including career development and mentoring opportunities. • To provide strategic leadership in the areas of diversity, development and cultural change across the Faculty. • To provide thought leadership on innovation in direct relationship to diversity, inclusion and cultural change. • To work with Executive Dean, Director of Operations and Strategic Projects Manager (Education), to instigate and lead interventions that centre on people and culture, with a view to enhancing the experience for all within the Faculty and distinguish the Faculty as innovative thought leaders within the fields of diversity, development and inclusion. • To work with the Faculty Executive, provide strategic direction to the Faculty’s priorities for People and Culture, contributing to the setting and delivery of objectives and performance indicators. • To raise the profile of Faculty People and Culture work throughout the Faculty.
Other Responsibilities
• To actively participate in the promotion of the Faculty locally, nationally and internationally and to otherwise enhance the standing of the Institute through scholarship and/or improvement in activities leading to esteem factors of national/international importance.
Special Requirements
• The post-holder may be required to work irregular hours in accordance with the needs of the role. • Information of a confidential nature must be kept strictly confidential and should never be disclosed either inside or outside work. It should be noted that breach of confidentiality is a serious offence which may lead to dismissal. • Please note this role description reflects the core activities of the role. There may be changes in the emphasis of duties and it is expected that the role-holder recognises this, adopting a flexible approach to work and willingness to participate in training.
Our expectations
There are a number of duties and responsibilities that we ask all employees to be familiar with and adhere to. We ask that the successful candidate: • Positively contributes to an environment at King’s that truly represents Our Principles in Action and where every individual feels safe, secure and supported. • Always complies with the requirements of health and safety regulations to ensure their own wellbeing and that of their colleagues. • Has an understanding of sustainability, including its impact on the University and the work we do, and engages in sustainable practices in the workplace. • Ensures they are working in a safe environment, where they comply with our Health and Safety regulations and ensure confidentiality, only releasing confidential information obtained during the course of employment to those acting in an official capacity. • Complies with King’s protocols on the appropriate use of telephone, email and internet facilities.
Professorial role
Role purpose
Applications are invited for a Vice Dean (People & Culture) and new Research Professor in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care (NMPC) with the skills and commitment to drive an ambitious vision in applied health research and education relevant to our fields for the 21st century. The roles provide an excellent opportunity and platform that enables those appointed to advance their own research and to impactfully contribute within relevant fields. Given King’s breadth of disciplines, collaboration with other King's faculties is encouraged (health faculties and beyond). The unique range of world-leading Faculties at KCL offers great opportunity for interdisciplinary research and teaching. The appointed Professor will embrace the challenges and opportunities of tomorrow through a commitment to research excellence, grant capture, impact, capacity building, collaboration and education. Clinical colleagues seeking honorary appointments are welcomed. We particularly encourage applications from academics from black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds, as these groups are currently under-represented in our leadership. The Professor(s) will provide academic leadership within NMPC. They will lead sustainable, high quality, applied health research that benefits our local, national and global communities. They will be expected to be ambitious in capturing grant income and publishing high quality outputs, leading to a step change contribution to the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care and their academic field. They will foster interdisciplinary partnerships that increase the quality of their research and education and deliver impacts to benefit society. They will contribute to postgraduate and undergraduate education, including PhD supervision and delivering lectures and seminars, growing our post-graduate taught and interdisciplinary education, contribute to development and capacity building in the Faculty, across King’s and their field. The appointed Chair 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 their Research Division.
Role Profile
The successful candidate(s) 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. They would be expected to hold an international reputation in the field and have an established research programme, a track record of publications and income, and the potential for significant grant income in a field relevant to the discipline mix within NMPC. The successful candidate(s) will have strong leadership, interpersonal and education skills and will champion an inclusive working environment. 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. It is essential that applicants have the enthusiasm and commitment required to contribute to the further development of the research standing of the faculty, and to contribute to teaching and administrative activities. We are committed to continually improving the diversity of our workforce, and therefore we encourage applications from all groups. This includes from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups, the LGBTQI+ community, those who are neurodiverse and those with a disability.
Key responsibilities
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. • Develop their own team of academics and researchers and to mentor them to independence. • To contribute to the faculty’s leadership and management. • 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. • To develop meaningful collaborations with our other world-leading Faculties at KCL and with other high-ranking Universities. In addition, all academic 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. The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
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Criteria
Essential
1. Appropriate academic standing to gain and retain credibility as a leader. 2. Have knowledge of strategic development and leadership and change management/delivery. Knowledge of higher education senior management would also be beneficial. 3. Possess excellent oral and written communication skills. 4. Be a pragmatic problem solver with tact and determination and the ability to form good professional relationships at all levels. 5. Track record in the development of others to achieve the criteria for success in UK academia. 6. Have a strong personal commitment to the principles and practice of equality, diversity and inclusion. 7. Leadership: i.e. ability to consistently and effectively demonstrate leadership behaviours, including empowering and/or delegating, while providing strategic direction, strong management, support, influencing skills and empathy. 8. Experience of encouraging and fostering developing, such as supporting Early Career Researchers in their development.
Desirable
1. Experience in a previous faculty leadership role. 2. Experience of leadership in probation promotion and similar activities in the academic sector.
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Criteria
Essential
1. Higher academic degree (PhD or medical equivalent). 2. A world class record of applied health and care or clinical research evidenced by: a. An extensive world-leading publication record. b. Funding, an excellent track record of peer review income and potential and plans to attract external peer review funds. c. Extensive experience in a relevant field with strong, active network of both internal and external contacts / collaborators across disciplines, and ability to forge and maintain partnerships with other leaders and centres of excellence. 3. Leadership skills: ability to contribute to academic planning and strategic development and to developing others. 4. Impact: evidence of delivering wide reaching and significant impact from research. 5. Excellent teaching and communication skills, with evidence of quality peer review teaching. 6. Experience of supervision of PhD students, and in mentoring and developing junior research colleagues. 7. Ability to work effectively across organisational boundaries, with self-motivation. 8. Commitment and track record in promoting equality, diversity & inclusivity for staff and students.
Desirable
1. Relevant clinical, health or social care expertise or registration in fields relevant to this role. 2. Experience of serving on grant giving and funding committees. 3. Ability to identify new research opportunities and collaborative partnerships. 4. 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. 5. PGT and/ or education development experience.
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About King’s
King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. We are dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. Through our commitment to exceptional education, impactful research, and genuine service to society, we are creating positive change in our communities, both in London and on the world stage. Our Vision 2029 looks forward to our 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out our ambitious plans in five key areas: • Educating the next generation of change-makers; • Challenging ideas and driving change through research; • Giving back to society through meaningful service; • Working with our local communities in London; • Fostering global citizens with an international perspective; King’s comprises nine faculties, each with an academic leader and professional services lead: Executive Dean of Faculty and Director of Operations. Professional Services are provided in every Faculty as well as centrally to deliver support services for students and staff. Our faculties • Faculty of Arts & Humanities • Faculty of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences • Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine • Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences • Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy • Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care • Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience • King’s Business School • The Dickson Poon School of Law
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). We currently have around 3,700 undergraduate, postgraduate taught and research students and around 225 academic, and research and clinical staff, supported by 80 professional services staff. The faculty is a major contributor to the London, UK and increasingly international nursing, midwifery and palliative care workforce. The Faculty has its origins in the work of two remarkable women. Florence Nightingale, who established the first professional nurse training school at St Thomas’s Hospital in 1860, and Dame Cicely Saunders, noted for her work in palliative care research and her role in the birth of the hospice movement. We are committed to shaping the future of healthcare and promoting education, research and networks, underpinned by our central belief in a robust, evidence-based approach. The Faculty is located at two London campuses - King’s College Hospital in Camberwell/Denmark Hill, James Clark Maxwell Building at Waterloo. 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.
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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Closing date for applications: 03 June 2025 23:59
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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
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