Post-doctoral Research Associate - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
Post-doctoral Research Associate - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
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.
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.
About the role
A post-doc opportunity to join a clinical trial of a novel intervention for post-traumatic stress disorder in UK Military veterans. This is an efficacy and mechanisms trial to understand whether the novel therapy, compared to waiting-list control, is effective in a tightly controlled trial and how it might be exerting its effects. In this post-doc role you will support the delivery of the clinical trial and the team’s understanding of the mechanisms of our novel therapy by: 1) delivering the mechanisms study data collection, processing and analysis under the supervision of the academic lead for this work package and 2) Support the delivery of the trial by undertaking and processing trial data collection and preparing the data for analysis by the statistical team by working closely with the Trial Manager and the Assistant Trial manager. The trial is taking place outside of the NHS with veterans across the UK, some travel to Northern Ireland will be necessary up to twice a year. The academic and research team leading this trial sit within the Research Division for Care in Long-Term Conditions which as a thriving mental health research team across trauma, patient safety, eating disorders, recovery and Arts-based therapies. External multi-disciplinary collaborators are based across the UK with specialisms in psychotherapy, CBT, psychiatry and the 3rd sector. Academic career development and mentorship support will be offered to develop independent post-doc fellowship/ grant applications in this research field at KCL.
Especially note that the role will involve email, telephone and video call contact with people requesting treatment for PTSD during which they sometimes share their distress. Training and support will be provided in managing vicarious trauma.
This is a full time, and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 30.08.27.
