Senior Lecturer or Lecturer (Academic Education Pathway), Advanced Practice Education (Maternity Leave Cover)

This is an outstanding development opportunity for a talented individual who wishes to advance excellent and innovative education. We are seeking an individual to be part of the interprofessional leadership team for the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice programme an established and highly evaluated programme. The MSc Advanced Clinical Practice supports healthcare professionals to progress to senior practice roles online with the NHS England Framework.

The cornerstone of the role is to deliver outstanding education with a focus on supporting delivery of the Advanced Assessment module on the ACP programme. The Advanced Assessment module runs three times each year to a multi-disciplinary cohort. The successful candidate will also be pivotal in the support of advanced skills development and education in the pre-registration UG and PG curriculums.

We are seeking applications from a range of healthcare professionals who work in advanced clinical practice roles including physiotherapists, paramedics, pharmacists, nurses and midwives.

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 for: overall proportion of research rated 4*, research papers rated 4*, impact rated 4*, environment rated 4*(joint), Grade Point Average and Power.  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), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery.

The Florence Nightingale 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.

You should apply if

You are an enthusiastic and dedicated individual who can make a distinctive contribution, bridging theory and practice, developing scholarship or research, and inspiring and informing students from a wide range of backgrounds.

We strongly encourage applications from underrepresented groups including those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups, the LGBTQI+ community, those who are neurodiverse and those with a disability.

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract until June 2025.

Academic Education pathway contract is 80% teaching and 20% scholarship.

This is a full-time post. However, we offer flexibility for part-time working.

We would also consider secondments from NHS and other healthcare providers.

Play an active role in NMPC and King’s undergraduate and postgraduate education, focussed on the programmes. This may include module and programme leadership, developing and delivering high quality innovative education and relevant materials, including incorporating King’s and Faculty research, pastoral support, supervision, and assessment and generating excellent student success and feedback.

Have a clear forward plan for sustaining and enhancing NMPC education and/or PhD supervision consistent with our strategy, including to increase research and evidence informed education, multi- and interdisciplinary endeavours, digital offerings and improved student success and experience.

Provide annual reports of progress towards objectives and if needed make presentations to donors or others on progress.

Main other responsibilities

• Deliver outstanding education for relevant programmes based on best evidence, health policy and research
• Actively participate in, and where appropriate plan and lead relevant modules and teaching programmes at King’s, with a strong focus on excellent student experience, seeking opportunities for efficiencies with other modules and programmes
• Communicate and collaborate with students, patients, families, the public, policy makers and clinical colleagues and in research and teaching, and its relevance to care and policy.
• Work in collaboration and partnership with key stakeholders, institutions, and organisations
• Actively participate in marking, course and programme development, assessment, module leadership, personal tutoring and project supervision
• Proactively collaborate with research and teaching staff within the Faculty, across the University, and where appropriate lead collaborative developments
• Actively engage in Patient and Public Involvement and imbed this into all research projects and teaching endeavours.
• Engage with the media, press, publicity, policy makers, practitioners, and others to deliver impact of the research and teaching to the benefit of patients, families, and society.
• Play a broader role in the Faculty, contributing to the growth and development of our people and the wider organisation as appropriate to role.
• Actively participate in relevant audit and clinical governance activity, including audit of research and teaching activity, and team building activities
• Champion, model and uphold King’s values and principles, and maintain highest standards of adherence to data protection, ethical and research governance principles and practices
• Have and maintain an honorary contract if required, Good Clinical Practice in research, and complete all mandatory training
• Undertake relevant professional development in negotiation with line manager and PDR discussions.
• Act as a personal tutor for postgraduate and undergraduate students.
• If a registered nurse or midwife, act as a Link Lecturer and Academic Assessor

Scholarship

• Co-author one quality paper for a professional or academic journal or a book chapter relevant to Faculty research programmes or education innovations each year
• Actively collaborate with Faculty research themes to enhance research informed education and evidence-based practice
• Act as a collaborator to design innovations or projects to enhance research and integration with education

If Senior Lecturer (Academic Education) above plus:

• Act as a co-applicant on one application for funding, which can involve working with research teams in the Faculty, or for an educational innovation or improvement
• Design, implement and review innovations or projects to enhance educational provision, plus a first author publication each year.

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.

Essential criteria

Desirable criteria

The selection process will include a presentation and a panel interview. Scheduling of presentations will be confirmed once shortlisting has taken place.

Please note that you must provide three referees upon application including your current/ most recent employer.