KINGS COLLEGE LONDON: Postdoctoral Analysis Affiliate and Instructing Fellow in Inhabitants Psychological Well being

About us

In April 2024, IoPPN, King’s School London established a nationwide Inhabitants Well being Enchancment Cluster (PHIC) with a give attention to psychological health, funded by UKRI. This publish will likely be located at KCL, working with and throughout this huge disseminated UK-wide partnership spanning 10+ universities and different organisations throughout the nation, alongside folks with lived expertise.

In regards to the position

This publish is an thrilling alternative for a postdoctoral researcher with a powerful background in inhabitants health education and research to contribute to a newly established nationwide Inhabitants Well being Enchancment Cluster (PHIC) with a give attention to psychological health, funded by UKRI. The postholder can have the data and expertise to each ship and consider coaching (lectures, seminars, workshops and on-line coaching programs) and likewise conduct research in inhabitants psychological health, with equal weight given to teaching and research roles.

The initiative is led by King’s School London, in partnership with Thrive LDN. This specific position will likely be based mostly collectively at two websites: the Division of Psychological Drugs (Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Denmark Hill campus) and Inhabitants Well being Sciences (School of Life Sciences and Drugs, Man’s campus). That is an interdisciplinary initiative which goals to enhance population-based psychological health. The initiative contains three problem areas (1. Youngsters and younger folks, 2. Suicide and self-harm prevention, and three. A number of long-term situations) and 4 cross-cutting platforms (1. Coverage, implementation and lived expertise, 2. Knowledge, linkages and causal inference, 3. Inequalities, 4. Coaching and capability building).

The postholder will play a central position in Platform 4 and will likely be tasked with creating an interdisciplinary coaching programme to help the event of the subsequent technology working in inhabitants psychological health. The Cluster as an entire can have a powerful nationwide foundation in partnerships with community organisations, native authorities, public health and folks with lived expertise and the postholder will want to have the ability to contemplate methods to share studying alternatives throughout this broad vary of stakeholders.

The postholder will likely be anticipated to develop and lead on coaching co-developed with Platform and Problem leads within the cluster, together with coaching in qualitative and quantitative strategies coaching and involvement.

The position may also present an thrilling alternative for the postholder to develop research on this space, drawing from the broader themes and experience within the initiative.

The postholder will likely be anticipated to contribute to community conferences, away-days, convention and different networking occasions. The postholder will help the supply of related content material to different Cluster members and materials for exterior audiences.

The applicant can have a demonstrable observe document of writing clearly for tutorial audiences and will likely be anticipated to additionally lead analyses and preparation of peer reviewed manuscripts and may contribute to, or lead, different dissemination actions in partnership with different Cluster members.

Profitable shortlisted candidates could also be requested to current a brief presentation and full a activity related to the position.

This publish is break up throughout two colleges – Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.and  School of Life Sciences & Drugs and the post-holder will likely be anticipated to work on-site (Man’s campus, London Bridge, and IoPPN, Denmark Hill Campus). As well as, given the nationwide remit of the position, there will likely be alternatives for travel and dealing with nationwide companions.

This can be a full time publish (35 Hours per week), and you’ll be provided a set time period contract till thirty first March 2028.

In particular person interviews at London Bridge are presently scheduled for twenty eighth June.

The profitable applicant will likely be anticipated to work on campus at the least 4 days per week and have to be keen to travel throughout companion places throughout the nation for key conferences and occasions.

About you

To achieve success on this position, we’re on the lookout for candidates to have the next expertise and expertise:

Important standards

1. A PhD in a related self-discipline [e.g. public health, mental health epidemiology or population health]
2. Understanding of the UK public health context
3. Proof of impartial research, utilizing quantitative or qualitative strategies, in public health or psychological health
4. Data / expertise of psychological health research
5. Expertise in managing, delivering or creating instructional programmes
6. Expertise of efficient engagement with a various vary of scholars / stakeholders
7. Glorious presentation and communication skills (each written and verbal)

Fascinating standards

1. Proof of instructional scholarship and research
2. Expertise of working in a public health associated area
3. Data / expertise of superior quantitative analytic strategies together with use of large-scale datasets for research, or in qualitative / combined strategies approaches, and / or affected person and public involvement in research
4. Proof of publication of research in peer-reviewed journals
5. Related qualification in education / Fellowship of the HEA (or equal)

Full particulars of the position and the talents and expertise required, will be discovered within the hooked up job description which supplied on the subsequent web page.

Additional data

We satisfaction ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace variety and wish everybody to really feel that they belong and are linked to others in our community.

We’re dedicated to working with our employees and unions on these and different points, to proceed to help our folks and to develop a various and inclusive tradition at King’s.

We ask all candidates to submit a replica of their CV, and a supporting assertion, detailing how they meet the important standards listed within the advert. If we obtain a powerful area of candidates, we could use the fascinating standards to decide on our last shortlist, so please embody your proof towards these the place doable.

To learn the way our managers overview your utility, please check out our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

Interviews are because of be held on twenty eighth June.

This position doesn’t meet the necessities of the Residence Workplace and due to this fact we aren’t in a position to supply sponsorship for candidates who require the precise to work within the UK.

This publish is topic to a Disclosure and Barring Service clearance.