Research Assistant

at  Kings College London

Job id: 095068. Salary: £37,332-£42,099 pro rata per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 09 September 2024. Closing date: 23 September 2024.
Business unit: Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care. Department: Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation.
Contact details: Dr Annabel Farnood. annabel.farnood@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Denmark Hill Campus. Category: Research.
Back to job search
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
This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Assistant to make meaningful contribution and valuable impact to the delivery of a dementia and digital health project.
The post-holder will collaborate closely with a multi-disciplinary co-applicant team to deliver this project successfully. In this position, you will provide research support on a project that will develop and build a supportive platform for family carers for people with dementia.
In this role you will be responsible for day-to-day coordination of the project including a variety of responsibilities such as but not limited to data collection, co-development workshops, writing academic papers and reports, dissemination of research, liaising with co-applicant team, collaborators, Patient and Public Involvement members and community partners.
This is a part time (28 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31.10.2025
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.
About You
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

• A degree in health or social sciences or similar awarded to a high level (e.g. first or 2.1)
• Experience of co-development methods
• Experience of using social media and/or online platforms to engage and promote research activities
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Strong organisational and planning skills with proven ability to coordinate and deliver projects
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to adapt communication to the situation
• Excellent time management skills with the ability to multi-task and prioritise, and complete work within deadlines

Desirable criteria

• A postgraduate qualification in health or social sciences or similar e.g. MSc or PhD
• Research or clinical experience in dementia care
• Research or other types of experience in digital health
• Publications, including blogs, reports, web content, creative dissemination
• Experienced in public engagement or working with community partners

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 next page after you click “

Please refer the Job description for details