"Clinical Research Fellow in Neonatal Care"

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, diabetes, 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 2014 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 six Departments.

Optimising Neonatal Care

The origin of this project builds on the very successful research we have undertaken over many years both in the delivery suite and on the neonatal unit. Optimising neonatal care by making detailed physiological assessments is a key part of our overall research programme and for which King’s has an international reputation. Parents of patients have given feedback on the design of our studies. The design of our research reflects EDI principles and involves patients from diverse back grounds indeed this makes our findings more robust and generalisable.

About the role

The clinical research fellow will undertake research on the delivery suite and the neonatal unit at King’s College Hospital/ King’s College London under the supervision of Professor Greenough and Dr Bhat. This will involve using physiological measurements using state of the art equipment, undertaking data collection and randomised trials. The studies will optimise will delivery suite management and critically evaluate the use of medications on the neonatal unit. The research fellow will contribute to other research studies being performed by the group, undertake systematic reviews and become familiar with statistical analysis. They will also contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.

This is a full-time post (40 hours per week), and you will be offered an fixed term contract until 30th September 2027.

About You

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

Essential criteria

• Fully registered medical practitioner (MBBS & GMC registered) or equivalent in relevant field
• Experience in paediatrics, specifically in neonatology
• Experience in a tertiary-level neonatal intensive care unit
• Quantitative research skills and experience in conducting and interpreting statistical analysis
• Relevant research work experience

Desirable criteria

• Strong publication record
• Undergraduate research degree
• Presentations of scholarly work
• Teaching experience
• Post graduate qualification equivalent to MRCP/MRCPCH