Reader/Professor of Rehabilitation and/or Physiotherapy

Salary:

Reader: £64,421 - £71,857 pro rata per annum, inc. London Weighting Allowance;

Professor: £80,324 - £110,000 pro rata per annum, inc. London Weighting Allowance.

About the role

Candidates must demonstrate excellence in conducting innovative and compelling research, and should have a proven track record of successfully attracting funding, as well as the ambition and potential to secure significant research funding.

You will be an allied health professional or clinician who will collaborate with King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre across academic, clinical, and other partners to develop an agenda for the future of rehabilitation and physiotherapy research and education. Our major healthcare partners include Guy’s and St Thomas’s and King’s College Hospital, and SE London ICB as well as a multitude of other partners. Areas of research interest and strength in the School and Faculty include:

• Rehabilitation & Health Research
• Complex interventions trials in long-term conditions/prevention
• Long-term conditions and multiple mental and physical morbidities (e.g., Stroke, MSK,COPD, falls and frailty)
• Sports science
• Respiratory physiology
• Cardiovascular and muscle physiology
• Developing and implementing methods to evaluate the complexity of system changes in health and social care
• Developing and executing Public Health interventions in multi-ethnic populations
• Health data science
• Inequalities and ethnicity

This is a part time post (up to 17.5 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About You

Grade: Reader

Essential criteria

• Full GMC registration with valid license to practice or other healthcare professional registered with the relevant professional registration body
• PhD or equivalent qualification in rehabilitation, physiotherapy or a related discipline
• Proven ability to attract competitive research funding
• Portfolio of internationally recognised research in Rehabilitation, Physiotherapy or related disciplines
• Evidence of leadership capability
• Ability to attract and develop talented researchers into the field
• Proven track record in education, showing a commitment to high-quality and innovation evidenced by peer review
• Track record of national and international collaborations
• A track record of supervising PhD’s to completion and post-doctoral mentorship

Desirable criteria

• 5 peer reviewed publications in the last five years, of “world leading“ or ”internationally excellent” quality (with substantive and critical authorship contribution)
• Sufficient grant income with a percentage of salary recovery over the last 5 years to support a team with 2-3 research staff
• Ability to collaborate across disciplines

Grade: Professor

Essential criteria

• Full GMC registration with valid license to practice or other healthcare professional registered with the relevant professional registration body
• PhD or equivalent qualification in rehabilitation, physiotherapy or a related discipline
• Proven ability to attract programmatic research funding and evidence of grant applications during the previous 3 years
• Substantive portfolio of internationally recognised research in Rehabilitation and/or Physiotherapy
• Evidence of academic leadership and strategic contributions
• Sufficient PI and/or Co-I grant income with a percentage of salary recovery over the last 5 years to support a team of 3-5 research staff
• Significant experience of high-quality and innovative teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate level
• Track record of national and international collaborations
• Substantive esteem indicators such as routinely invited to speak at international meetings, chair and organiser of national/international meetings, chairing and serving on professional and scientific grant committees and Editorial Boards
• A track record of supervising PhD students to completion and post-doctoral mentorship

Desirable criteria

• 5 peer reviewed publications in the last five years, of “world leading“ or ”internationally excellent” quality (with substantive and critical authorship contribution)

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