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.
For the last six years, King’s has been number 2 in the world and number 1 in Europe 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 the Cicely 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.
This lecturer will typically devote 80% of their time to focus on education excellence. They will lead, develop and deliver clinically focused education at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Knowledge and expertise in neonatal nursing will be an added bonus. The lecturer will be passionate about Children’s nursing and education, demonstrating an ability to inspire the next generation of Children’s nurses. They will be knowledgeable about different forms of teaching and learning and confident in their clinical skills and experience. They will be enthusiastic educators for our student population, including undergraduate and postgraduate pre-registration students; those studying beyond registration and those pursuing advanced studies.
The leadership element of this role incorporates accountability for quality assurance of their teaching and learning and peer review of others to sustain and develop high quality education. Academic citizenship through academic related activities that underpin excellence in education will be an expectation of the postholder. The lecturer will promote education research conducted within the Department and Faculty.
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