Clinical Senior Lecturer in Paediatrics and Child Health

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

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