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.

 

As of 2025, our Faculty is number 1 in the world 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.  

This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated talented individual to work as a research assistant for a new project to support family carers of people with dementia, the  Optimising a person-centred outcome measure to support family carers of people with dementia (IPOS-Dem Family) project. The project intends to develop a person-centred outcome measure called the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale for Dementia (IPOS-Dem) to empower family carers to care for people with dementia and access the right support at the right time.

 

You will join our team in the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care and work within a multidisciplinary team at King’s College London and with our university and community partners, and lived experts by experience. The project is led by Dr Clare Ellis-Smith and Professor Catherine Evans at King’s College London.

 

You will support the day-to-day running and delivery of the project. This includes recruiting people with dementia, family carers and health and social care practitioners, conducting qualitative interviews, facilitating workshops with multiple stakeholders, and analysing data. You will also be involved in disseminating study results through peer-review publications, blogs, reports and social media.

 

This is a full time post (35 hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract to 31st July 2026.  Location: Hybrid – minimum of 2 days at Denmark Hill campus.