"Academic Post in Palliative Care and Child Health"

About the role

This is an outstanding development opportunity for a talented individual who wishes to advance excellent and innovative research and education, especially on the care and support of children and young people with life limiting conditions or medical complexity, their families and the workforce that care for them.

This academic post will be working with our Chair of Palliative Care and Child Health, Lorna Fraser and will support an NIHR funded programme Improving Care for children with life-limiting Conditions: developing, adapting, implementing and evaluating interventions (ICICLE). You will contribute to new grant applications and advise on studies to completion and publication, including supervision of research team members. You will also contribute to teaching and provide PhD and MSc supervision.

This post will be full-time in the Cicely Saunders Institute and will be a fixed term contract until 30/11/29 in the first instance.

We particularly seek applicants with experience and expertise of one or more of the following: developing or evaluating complex interventions, research in child health, especially those with complex or life-limiting conditions, or palliative care.

Interviews are due to take place on 27th February.

Location: Hybrid – minimum of 2 days on campus at Denmark Hill.

About you

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

Essential criteria

1. Higher academic degree (PhD or medical equivalent)
2. Track record of peer-review publication and presentations that demonstrate international excellence or are world-leading in terms of originality, rigour, and significance in areas relevant to this role
3. Evidence of ability to secure research grant funding, demonstrated by previous experience or track record, involvement in research active teams, responsibilities, plans, awareness of funding schemes relevant to this role
4. Evidence of continued development in research methods in health services or clinical research, with increasing expertise in specific areas relevant to this role (e.g. intervention development, implementation science, robust evaluation designs, mixed methods study designs)
5. Experience of and training in PhD supervision, as first or second supervisory and/or as part of supervisory progression panels.
6. Evidence of commitment to continued development in evidence-based practice, research methods and evidence relevant to care, with up-to-date knowledge, skills and accomplishments, able to supervise MSc and undergraduate student projects and critically appraise a wide range of relevant research, including data presentation and basic analysis
7. Experience of Research Ethics AND governance procedures within the UK National Health Service

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of co-leading/leading research projects in child health.
2. Experience of the planning and delivering high-quality evaluated education at undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels with a strong focus on a high-quality inclusive student experience and success.
3. Track record of winning and delivering successful externally funded grants, world leading or internationally excellent publications, and impact relevant to the field.

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 person specification section of the job description. 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.

Grade and Salary: £65,091 - £74,613 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 135605

Close Date: 05-Feb-2026

Contact Person: Professor Lorna Fraser

Contact Details: Lorna.fraser@kcl.ac.uk