Senior Lecturer / Reader (Education & Research)

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This role

Building on our recent success in the Research Excellence Framework this is an outstanding development opportunity for a talented individual with the skills and commitment to drive an ambitious vision in applied health research and education relevant to the field of critical care for the 21st century.
 
The roles provide an excellent opportunity and platform that enables those appointed to develop research and impactfully contribute to the field of critical care. Given King’s breadth of disciplines, there will be significant opportunities to collaborate with other health faculties (and beyond). The appointees will embrace the opportunities of tomorrow through a commitment to research excellence, grant capture, collaboration and education, within the research division of Applied Technologies in Clinical Care.
 
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, with one of the largest critical care services in the UK across our clinical partners 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* (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.
 
For the last three 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).
 
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. 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.

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