Clinical Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health

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About Us

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

Evelina London Children's Healthcare

Caring for more than 95,000 babies, children and young people each year, Evelina London Children's Healthcare provides comprehensive health services from before birth, throughout childhood and into adult life. ELCH is part of Guys and St Thomas' Foundation Trust which is among the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation Trusts.

The Evelina London Children's Hospital provide a large range of local hospital and community services for children in South London, Lambeth and Southwark, as well as an almost comprehensive range of specialist services for children with rare and complex conditions from across South London, Kent, Surrey and Sussex.

It is the 1st children's hospital in the UK to be rated as 'Outstanding' by the Quality Care Commission. It is the 2nd largest provider of children's hospital services in London.

Our vision is to be a world leading centre of life-changing care for children, young people and their families. We want to improve the lives of children and young people by:

• Applying consistently outstanding life-enhancing healthcare
• Educating and training people to deliver effective child-centred care and treatment
• Undertaking research that adds to knowledge about how to improve child health and change practice

As well as serving a local population of children living in the boroughs of Lambeth and Southwark, the Evelina offers specialist care for children from across South-East England and further afield, including overseas.

Evelina London Clinical Group includes both Children and Women's services across both GSTTs acute hospital sites and community services for Lambeth and Southwark. It is made up of 4 clinical directorates; Neonatology & Children's Medical Specialties including Paediatric Emergency medicine, PICU & Children's Surgical Specialties, Community Child Health & Women's Services. This post sits within the Medicine and Neonatology Directorate.

About the role

This post is proposed to contain 10 Programmed Activities (PAs) to combine an academic and clinical role.

The post is to build senior capacity for research and education within the School of Life Course and Population Health Sciences, and the Evelina London Children's Hospital.

The post-holder will have a background in one of the school's strategic research areas: child health services and systems research, population paediatrics and policy, general, community, or integrated child health, inequalities, or other child health problems, and be expected to realise the potential for integrated research activity across the wider School.

The post holder will have an excellent track record in research; a proven ability to attract external funding to support their research programme, and a strong record of publication in high-impact, peer-reviewed journals. The post is primarily a career research-focussed post, for clinical academics, but the post-holder will undertake some leadership within the MSc in Women and Children's Health (e.g. module leadership, teaching, assessment, and administration) and contribute to other relevant teaching within the Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine.

The post will be predominantly based at the St Thomas Campus sites, Evelina London at St Thomas' Hospital and KCL's Guy's Campus.

Clinical Component:

The clinical component involves 5 PAs per week at Evelina, including on-call commitments, with duties such as:

• Outpatient clinics (approximately 2 per month)
• Leading care for general pediatric admissions during acute weeks (approximately 2 per year)
• Managing medically complex patients during COMPASS service weeks (approximately 2 per year)
• Providing out-of-hours cover, including weekends and overnight on-calls (no more than a 1:12 frequency)

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. MRCPCH or equivalent; eligible for full UK GMC registration and a valid license to practice
2. Comprehensive clinical experience in General Paediatric
3. If UK trained, must have minimum of 2 years training / experience in General Paediatric
4. PhD in Paediatrics, Child Health, health services research, epidemiology, population health, public health, health systems, or related area
5. Proven experience of teaching subject(s) related to Children's Health and related sciences to undergraduates/postgraduates
6. Evidence of ability to write competitive, peer-reviewed grant applications
7. Publication of high-impact research papers
8. Knowledge and practical skills in an area of research relevant to the Dept. of Women and Children's Health
9. Supervisory/leadership experience in an area of research relevant to the Dept. of Women and Children's Health

Desirable criteria

1. University teaching qualification
2. Evidence of external recognition of expertise (e.g. grant/paper reviewing, invitation to speak at conferences)
3. Mentoring of junior staff in early career development
4. Ability to advise and contribute to planning of service developments
5. Management training or qualification

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click "Apply Now". This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further Information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

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.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ' How we Recruit ' pages.

Interviews are likely to be held late September/early October.

We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.