Inclusive Research and Education Practices Coordinator

at  Kings College London

Job id: 098825. Salary: £38,232 - £40,880 pro rata per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 04 November 2024. Closing date: 24 November 2024.
Business unit: Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. Department: NMPC Faculty Services.
Contact details: Hilary Jones. Hilary.c.jones@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Waterloo Campus. Category: Professional & Support Services.
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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
We are very pleased to offer this excellent opportunity to join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care as the Faculty Inclusive Research & Education Practices Coordinator. This is a great opportunity to gain experience within the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care’s world-leading established research and education divisions.
The postholder will provide high quality and comprehensive administrative, and project support to the Vice Dean of Research and Impact (VDRI) and Faculty Research and Impact Manager (FRIM) as well as ensuring the successful delivery of key research culture initiatives across the Faculty.
As part of the Faculty research office, you will be required to work closely with the VDRI, FRIM and our Inclusive Research Practices working group members, as well as act as a central point of contact for all Faculty research culture enquiries.
This role is focused on helping deliver the 3 aims of our Faculty Research Culture project funded by Research England. The aims are: (1) to increase the diversity of our NMPC researchers (2) to increase the diversity of research participants to our NMPC research studies and findings to reflect the diversity of London/UK populations and (3) to increase the diversity of our Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) groups/representatives and our PPI strategies.
The postholder will collect data, undertake analyses, co-ordinate work, support co-creation processes and dissemination work in relation to the three aims of the project.
More broadly, the role will include supporting and facilitating the delivery of PPI by NMPC staff in our research and education projects through provision of advice and training, coordinating a proposed online forum for public involvement, and organisation and delivery of public involvement activities with our patient and public contributors.
This is a part time post (14 hours per week), and you will be offered an a fixed term contract until 31st July 2026.
King’s considers the professional and personal development of our staff a priority and we offer an inspiring range of opportunities for training and career progression. Our Organisational Development team provide in-house and bespoke learning.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• Good standard of general education (undergraduate degree) or significant relevant vocational experience
• Experience of working in an administrative or coordination role, ideally in a UK Higher Education, NHS, Charity or research-related environment
• Demonstrates a commitment to promoting equality, diversity and inclusivity for staff and students
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to adapt communication as appropriate to the situation
• Excellent IT skills (including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, databases, and internet browsers)
• Excellent relationship building skills, with public members, researchers and external networks
• Excellent organisational skills, able to balance competing work demands (workload) and manage own time in order to meet imminent and distant deadlines
• Experience of producing reports

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of financial and accounting processes
• Understanding of the benefits and challenges of public involvement in research including importance of providing advice on undertaking public involvement to researchers and facilitating public involvement activities with members of the public
• The ability to be resourceful and identify solutions to problems independently

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
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King’s.
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 advert. 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.
We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

Please refer the Job description for details