Overview
CTM Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement (PPIE) Officer – Strand, London, WC2R 2LS
About Us
King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. The university is dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place. The Strategic Vision 2029 looks forward to King’s College London’s 200th anniversary in 2029 and sets out ambitious plans in five key areas:
- Educating the next generation of change-makers
- Challenging ideas and driving change through research
- Giving back to society through meaningful service
- Working with our local communities in London
- Fostering global citizens with an international perspective
The Centre for Translational Medicine brings together the organisations of King’s Health Partners and generous funding from the Guy’s and St Thomas’ Charity to work in partnership to improve the health of people locally, nationally, and globally. This is through accelerating research and innovation that improves the detection, prevention, and treatment of disease.
The Centre for Translational Medicine aims to:
- address the major health burdens for local, national and global communities – and to challenge existing health inequalities;
- combine our outstanding clinical and scientific expertise to deliver excellent outcomes for patients;
- develop the next generation of clinical-academic leaders, skilled in delivering impactful translational biomedical research.
About the role
King’s College London is an internationally renowned university delivering exceptional education and world-leading research. The university is dedicated to driving positive and sustainable change in society and realising our vision of making the world a better place.
King’s Health Partners brings together research, education and clinical practice across the university and three NHS Foundation Trusts (King’s College London, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust).
The King’s Health Partners (KHP) Centre for Translational Medicine (CTM) is a strategic initiative to enhance translational research capabilities across the partnership, support innovation and accelerate better, more equitable outcomes for patients and communities served by KHP and beyond.
The CTM PPIE officer will join the core team of the KHP CTM and be responsible to the CTM PPIE manager. This role will support a variety of exciting and innovative PPIE activities across public involvement and engagement. This will include the coordination of our PPIE Advisory Panel, supporting researchers with PPIE workstreams, development of training, outreach events to engage with the public, building trusted relationships with the diverse community and supporting PPIE work on large strategic funding bids. The role holder will work to ensure the impact of the PPIE work is shared with internal and external stakeholders.
Throughout this role, the postholder will work closely with other teams across the university such as the King’s Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) and the King’s Engaged Researcher Network (KERN).
This is a full time (35 hours per week) role, and you will be offered a fixed term contract until 31st March 2027.
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