Job id: 084326. Salary: £55,329 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 12 February 2024. Closing date: 18 February 2024.
Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine. Department: Department of Women & Children's Health.
Contact details:Natalie Suff. [email protected]
Location: St Thomas Campus. Category: Research.
Job description
We are looking for a clinical research fellow to join the group of Professor Andrew Shennan in the Preterm Birth Research group at St Thomas’ Campus, King's College London until October 2026.
The role of this job will be to study, coordinate and drive the ongoing Pregnolia study.
The postholder will be involved in setting up and implementing this study in symptomatic women. You will also be expected to engage in research activities (lab meetings, prematurity clinic), keep up to date with scientific literature in the field, lead your project, write manuscripts, present at national and international conferences and collaborate with others. You will also be expected to help co-supervise students. We are looking for someone that can be independent as well as engaged in our group and participate in our discussions.
This post will be offered on an a fixed term contract for 2 years until April 2026.
This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent.
Key responsibilities
- Refining and implement research protocols
- Coordinating implementation of the study
- Recruiting patients into the study
- Outcome data collection and data monitoring
- Coordinating and analysing data
- To contribute to other preterm birth projects within the group as required
- Attend and, as appropriate, present research findings and papers at internal academic meetings and external professional conferences, and to contribute to the internal and external visibility of the department
- Supervise academic work by undergraduates and masters students
- Facilitate existing and future collaboration and networking which engages and supports the activities of the project
- Contribute to publications arising from this project
- Undertake any other reasonable duties that may be relevant to the role outline
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.
Skills, knowledge, and experience
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Candidates are strongly encouraged to specifically address the essential criteria outlined in the Person Specification in their covering letter.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is one of six Schools that make up the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine at King’s College London. The School unites over 400 experts in women and children’s health, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women's Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.
More information: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/slcps