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

Job description

The role-holder will play an important role in the on-going development of the KHP Women and Children’s Health Clinical Academic Partnership (WCH CAP). This role combines both leadership in the development and / or operation of a number of critical elements of KHP WCH CAP and the Department of Women and Children’s Health at KCL, with a senior academic fellowship. It is expected that the role holder will maintain their personal knowledge and skills in clinical epidemiology, and contribute this in areas including WCH research reports, policy consultations, and responses to specialist research and methodology questions through the ‘Ask the Institute’ service.  

This role contributes to both the KHP WCH CAP and the King’s Clinical Trial Unit Specialist Section in Women and Children’s Health, which sits within the Department of Women and Children's Health in the School of Life Course Sciences.

The role holder will report directly to the Director of the KHP WCH CAP, Professor Ingrid Wolfe. They will be responsible for a small team of research and / or clinical trials staff.  

This post will be offered on a fixed-term contract for until 31 December 2024

This post is available as a full-time post – 100 % full time equivalent. However, part time applicants are encouraged to apply.

This vacancy is available as a secondment for eligible candidates.

Key responsibilities

• Provide epidemiological expertise across the KHP WCH CAP and DWCH.
• Support the strategic development of KHP WCH CAP via delivery of clinically relevant research output, responding to policy changes and consultations and influencing the priorities of KHP WCH CAP based on the current and changing health needs of women and children.
• Provide senior strategic leadership for the KHP WCH CAP Knowledge Hub and Ask the Institute function.
• Lead and evolve the ‘Ask the Institute’ function of the KHP WCH CAP, ensuring responsive delivery of research questions across KHP organisations.
• Provide epidemiological expertise to Ask the Institute projects ensuring the delivery of clinically-relevant, scientifically robust research output.
• Provide senior strategic leadership for the Women and Children’s Specialist Section of the King’s Clinical Trial Unit (KCTU).
• Develop and grow the Women and Children’s specialist section of the King’s Clinical Trial’s Unit (KCTU) ensuring delivery of a comprehensive, specialist service for women and children’s trials across King’s Health Partners.
• Provide operational, methodological, statistical and epidemiological expertise to women and children’s clinical trials in the planning stages and to those trials running within the specialist section.
• Plan, allocate and oversee the operational activities of Trial Managers working across women and children’s specialist section trials.
• Oversee operational and strategic aspects of the Learning Health System development, particularly in relation to connectivity and guidance around use of routinely collected clinical data, and research data.

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.