"Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care and Child Health (Education & Research)"

About 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 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.

As of 2025, King’s is number 1 in the world 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), and is second in the world on the same metric for nursing and midwifery. King’s is the largest provider of health care education in Europe.

The Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care(NMPC) is based in the heart of central and south London. It includes theCicely Saunders Institute for Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, the premier Institute for Palliative Care, bringing together clinical, research and education teams.

Our applied clinical and health multidisciplinary research transforms therapies, the healthcare experience and outcomes for patients and those important to them, wherever they are cared for. Our award-winning NMPC education programmes span pre-registration nursing and midwifery, and multidisciplinary post-graduate taught and research programmes.

We are committed to staff development and offer opportunities to identify and access appropriate training and professional growth.

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 – min. 2 days on campus at Denmark Hill.

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

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