Chair/Professor in Rehabilitation and/or Physiotherapy Sciences

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom King's College London Full time

Location: Guy's Campus

Contact details: Professor Josip Car. josip.car@kcl.ac.uk

Job description

We are seeking an exceptional academic leader in rehabilitation and/or physiotherapy sciences to join the School of Life Course & Population Sciences at King’s College London. The Chair would lead a vibrant research and education team. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to work with King’s Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre across academic, clinical and other partners developing an agenda for the future of rehabilitation and physiotherapy research and education. You will have the opportunity to collaborate with a wide range of world-leading experts in multiple synergistic and complementary disciplines and specialties. Our major healthcare partners include Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College Hospital, and SE London ICB as well as a multitude of other partners.

The School of Life Course & Population Sciences is committed to enhancing health, both nationally and internationally. Through pioneering research, innovative education and advocacy we contribute to the future of precision personalised population health. Partnerships are at the heart of our activities as we tackle complex health challenges across diverse populations. Your research and teaching will have a direct impact on training the next generation of physiotherapists and improving population health outcomes.

The post holder will lead an interdisciplinary group of researchers and educators and promote interprofessional learning, student involvement and blended learning initiatives along with existing teams in the School and wider Faculty to enhance our research and education excellence at an international, national and local level.

The two successful pre-registration physiotherapy programmes at King’s were redesigned in 2021 and 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 adopts 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.

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 post will be offered on an indefinite contract.

This is a full-time post - 100% full time equivalent.

Competitive salary



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