Senior Lecturer in Palliative Care and Child Health

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 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.

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.

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, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

At King s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfill our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension. We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King s guidance.

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
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