Lecturer/ Practitioner in Physiotherapy King’s Sport

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Lecturer/ Practitioner in Physiotherapy King’s Sport

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King’s College London

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that unites over 400 experts in rehabilitation, women and children’s health, diabetes, nutritional sciences, population health and the molecular genetics of human disease. Our research links the causes of common health problems to life’s landmark stages, treating life, disease, and healthcare as a continuum. We are interdisciplinary by nature and this innovative approach works: 91 per cent of our research submitted to the Subjects Allied to Medicine (Pharmacy, Nutritional Sciences and Women’s Health cluster) for REF was rated as world-leading or internationally excellent. We use this expertise to teach the next generation of health professionals and research scientists. Based across King’s Denmark Hill, Guy’s, St Thomas’ and Waterloo campuses, our academic programme of teaching, research and clinical practice is embedded across five Departments.King’s Sport & Wellness is an award-winning University department, engaging a community of circa 15,000 students and staff in sport, physical activity, and wellness activities. Working collaboratively across King’s, the department’s strategy is to support our communities to Find Their Personal Best’ through the delivery of unique, person centred sport and wellness experiences. The Wellness Centre, opened in 2022, provides a range of holistic services to all students and staff, including the provision of physiotherapy consultations working with qualified physiotherapists and providing practice placements for pre-registration physiotherapy students.The BSc Physiotherapy Programme is the highest ranked in London in the Guardian University League table 2023-24 and the Complete University Guide 2025. The Department is based on the beautiful Guy’s campus near London Bridge station and Borough market and KS&W is based at Waterloo near the vibrant south bank. You will have access to the King’s Sport Health and Wellness facilities that are free to all staff.Please click for more information about our Department.About the roleWe are seeking to appoint a Lecturer/Practitioner in Physiotherapy. This new post is an exciting opportunity for an academic to join a vibrant and highly committed physiotherapy academic team and the King’s Sport & Wellness team at King’s to establish themselves as a leader in the development and delivery of physiotherapy practice education and to facilitate the expansion of the KS&W clinical service.The post-holder will be based in the Department of Physiotherapy (School of Life Course & Population Sciences) in the Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine (0.6 WTE) and within King’s Sport & Wellness (0.4 WTE). They will work collaboratively with the department and KS&W to facilitate the expansion of the current clinical service from 3 to 5 days a week and to support a substantial increase in capacity for practice placements. In addition, they will provide inspirational education for students, delivering high quality research-led teaching in lectures, seminars and practical workshops, supervision of student research projects and leadership of a core module, as well as contributing to the development of innovative practice education opportunities. They will offer pastoral guidance to enhance the university experience and support student wellbeing.The two successful pre-registration physiotherapy programmes at King’s were redesigned in 2021 and aim to prepare over 250 graduates for leading and working flexibly across the changing health and social care environment to provide high-quality, person-centred and population sensitive, responsive services where individual choice is paramount. The curricula adopt a blended approach to learning with an integrated and inclusive approach to curriculum delivery to reflect the NHS Long term plan, contemporary research and to prepare students to consider, prevent and address health inequalities. The programmes are approved by the Health and Care Professions Council and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, allowing graduates eligibility to apply for registration as a physiotherapist.The role will provide an excellent opportunity to enhance both your clinical and your teaching expertise using a broad range of approaches and learning technologies including the cutting edge Chantler clinical skills centre and dynamic interprofessional education programme at King’s. You will contribute to a range of authentic assessment approaches that prepare our students to be evidence-based person-focussed practitioners.We offer a supportive and inclusive environment and access to training opportunities that will support you to engage in scholarly or research activity and to develop your knowledge and expertise to thrive in an academic role at a research active institution.This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered an indefinite contract.About youTo be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:Essential criteria * BSc or pre-registration MSc degree in Physiotherapy

• Chartered Physiotherapist (UK HCPC or other national registration body and eligible to apply for registration with the HCPC)
• Membership of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)
• Substantial evidence of a broad knowledge of physiotherapy practice and a detailed knowledge and experience of working in a musculoskeletal (MSK) Physiotherapy role and evidence of working with elite athletes
• Evidence of working effectively with electronic patient records
• An ability to design and deliver lectures, seminars, and practicals and foster an effective and inclusive learning environment
• Extensive experience of teaching and some evidence of module organisation and curriculum development for physiotherapy in higher education
• An innovative and proactive strategic thinker with the ability to prioritise and deliver high quality work to tight deadlines

Desirable criteria * Higher education teaching qualification

• Working towards or completed MSc Advanced Physiotherapy (SEM or MACP)
• Record of peer-reviewed publications (in education or research) in journals of international standard
• Experience of digital approaches to education delivery
• Relevant interdisciplinary experience

Further informationWe 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 ‘ ‘ pages.We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearances.CompanyKing’s College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King’s has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.King’s has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.King’s has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’, King’s College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King’s Health Partners. King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world’s leading research-led universities and three of London’s most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: .King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at .Company info Mini-site Telephone +(44)02078365454 Location STRAND
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Expected salary

£52874 – 61921 per year

Location

London

Job date

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:01:17 GMT

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