Clinical Senior Lecturer in Maternal and Fetal Medicine – King’s College London

Job ID: 039397
Salary: £84,258 – £85,541, including London Weighting Allowance
Business unit: Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine
Department: Department of Women & Children’s Health
St Thomas’ Campus

The Department of Women and Children’s Health at King’s college London is growing its research programme in Maternal and Fetal Medicine, including two new Clinical Senior Lecturer posts. These posts, supported jointly by The Fetal Medicine Foundation, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, will enable outstanding post-doctoral clinical researchers to make the transition to independence. Individual mentoring, support and training tailored to the post-holder’s research interests will prepare them for securing a career development fellowship and project funding for their research. Each of these Clinical Senior Lecturer posts offers 5 years of salary, a PhD studentship, and a consumables budget of £20,000 p/a. These will be full-time posts within the university that combine an academic role in the Department with a clinical role in either King’s College Hospital or St Thomas’ Hospital, where post‑holders will hold an honorary NHS Consultant contract. They will benefit from senior consultant support and back-up for the clinical aspects of their role matched with their specialist clinical interests and experience. The post-holders will benefit from the Department’s links with the Women and Children’s theme and core facilities of the GSTT NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, and King’s Health Partners Institute of Women and Children’s Health.

These newly-established posts offer an exciting opportunity and unusual flexibility for high-potential clinical researchers to shape both the university’s maternal and fetal medicine strategy, and their clinical role. Applicants should propose research projects that focus on maternal and child health throughout the life-course. This should broadly fit within a strategy to develop integrated research to improve clinical care and outcomes in Maternal and Fetal medicine and/or focus on the impact of gestational phenotypes on subsequent maternal and child health. The successful candidates will demonstrate clinical excellence in a relevant area of obstetrics and gynaecology that fits within the wide range of services offered by our partner NHS Trusts and have either experience, or interest, in development and delivery of medical undergraduate and postgraduate education.

The post-holders will benefit from the excellent research environment and infrastructure at King’s College. The Department of Women and Children’s Health is one of six in the School of Life Course & Population Sciences and has 32 clinical and non‑clinical established academic posts, and associated research groups. Its work includes an internationally recognised translational research programme in obstetrics and maternal medicine, which includes investigation into hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, metabolic disorders of pregnancy and premature birth.

The School sits within the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, one of the largest and most successful centres for health research and education in the UK. With its extensive global partnerships and world-renowned researchers, the Faculty offers an excellent environment for innovative and progressive research. Its strategic alignment with King’s Health Partners, brings together academics and clinicians to ensure efficient translation and adoption of research and innovation into clinical practice.

The Faculty is one of the 9 academic faculties that make King’s College London, an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world‑leading research.

These posts are offered as a King’s College London posts as a fixed-term contract for 5 years. The post-holders will be expected to complete both academic and clinical performance review annually and will be required to pass standard academic probation 3- years after taking-up their post.

The post-holders will also hold an honorary contract with either King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust or Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust to enable them to undertake clinical duties (up to 5 PAs).

Contact details: Catherine Williamson, catherine.williamson@kcl.ac.uk

These are full-time posts – 100% full time equivalent, which include 5 PAs of clinical duties.

Closing date: 17-Feb-2022

Apply link: https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/job/039397/Clinical-Senior-Lecturer-in-Maternal-and-Fetal-Medicine