Clinical Research Associate in the Department of Psychological Medicine

The post holder will join The Psychoactive Trials Group at the Centre for Affective Disorders, King’s College London, led by Dr James Rucker.  

 

The Psychoactive Trials group is a multidisciplinary research group based at King’s College London, collaborating with South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Trust. You will work across various locations including The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, The Centre for Mental Health Research and Innovation and the NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility at King’s College Hospital.

The Centre for Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience is recruiting a team of highly motivated and passionate clinicians and researchers to deliver an exciting programme of research using various forms of drug assisted therapy in healthy volunteers and participants with mental health conditions.

 

The post holder will join The Psychoactive Trials Group, led by Dr James Rucker, as part of Centre for Affective Disorders at King’s College London. The post holder will have a leading role in co-ordinating, managing and delivering clinical trials investigating psychedelic therapy in healthy participants and participants with generalised anxiety disorder and treatment resistant depression. The trial team will be supervised by Dr James Rucker, consultant psychiatrist and NIHR Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Affective Disorders, and Catherine Bird, Clinical Trials Manager.

 

This is a full-time and you will be offered an a fixed-term contract for 12 months.

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

 

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 the “Apply” button, above.

This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

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.

 

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

 

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 due to be held in July 2025

 
This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearances.

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