Doctoral development
Learn more about the training opportunities at King's.
King’s College London hosts a thriving community of research-active health professionals. Across King’s Health partners, we employ and train almost every kind of health profession, representing a unique multidisciplinary environment in which to forge a clinical academic career.
The King’s Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) offers advice, best practice and information on navigating a clinical academic career. It is open to all health professionals who are based at any of the organisations of King’s Health Partners – KCL, Guy’s and St Thomas’s, King’s College Hospital or South London and Maudsley NHS Trusts.
Our strategic priorities are:
The KCATO Brochure outlines the various training and resources open to health professionals across King's and our NHS Trust partners via the KCATO.
Further information and resources on training, development, funding and careers are available on the newly launched KCATO Hub. For colleagues in any of the King's Health Partners who wish to access the KCATO Hub, please request access via this form.
You can contact the KCATO Team at kcato@kcl.ac.uk.
KCATO also administers the NIHR Integrated Academic Training Programme at King's College London. If you have any queries on the IAT Programme, please contact IATadmin@kcl.ac.uk.
Health professional researchers will receive quarterly newsletters from the King's Clinical Academic Training Office. If you have not received the newsletters and would like to be added to our mailing lists, please sign up to our newsletter via our online form.
All doctoral research students in the Health Faculties at King’s enrolled on a DClinPsy, MPhil, MRes, PhD, or other PGR degree, automatically receive monthly email updates from KCATO.
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We are seeking an Associate Director (Professions Allied to Healthcare) to join the team in KCATO. A key ambition is to strengthen early career support for King’s health professional researchers. You will work closely with the KCATO Deputy Director for Healthcare Professionals (nurses, midwives and AHPs) specifically to provide leadership and representation for professions allied to healthcare ( including pharmacists, psychologists, psychotherapists, clinical scientists, exercise physiologists, sonographers or other professions making up the wider health and care clinical team). You will work with key stakeholders and partners, to create a visible focal point for training professions allied to health, in research.
This role is for two years in the first instance and offered on 0.2 FTE (or 2 PAs buy out of existing role) and the appointment can be made up to Senior Lecturer (Grade 8 University Professional Services payscale) or Grade 8c (NHS Agenda for Change pay scale).
The eligibility criteria for the role is:
Please send your expression of interest (max 2 pages), CV and statement of confirmation for buy out from your line manager/head of department to kcato@kcl.ac.uk by Wed 11 September 2024. The interviews will tentatively be held on w/c 16 September 2024.
Further details regarding the eligibility criteria can be found in the person specification below. Queries on the role can be addressed to Prof Catherine Evans catherine.evans@kcl.ac.uk
Wednesday 31 July, 13:00-15:00 in Seminar Room 1 & 2, IoPPN Main Building, Denmark Hill Campus
Course Description
Getting published gives you the opportunity to share your work and experience, provoke debate, educate others, and change practice - but it can be difficult to get started!
Please join our workshop to hear top tips from Professor Alan Simpson and Professor Marlies Ostermann who will be sharing their experience as journal editors on what the publishers are looking for and how to approach writing. The workshop will also provide lunch and a chance to meet fellow clinical academic researchers across King's Health Partners.
Speakers
Prof Alan Simpson is Professor of Mental Health Nursing. He works across the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, the Health Service and Population Research Department in the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience and with South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
Professor Marlies Ostermann is a Consultant in Critical Care & Nephrology at Guy’s & St. Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London and Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Department of Inflammation Biology, School of Immunology & Microbial Sciences in the Faculty of Life Science and Medicine, King’s College London.
Book your place here
Thursday 1 August 2024, 13:00-15:00 at Harefield Hospital Room TBC
The King’s Clinical Academic Training Office (KCATO) is coming to Harefield Hospital!
We will introduce KCATO and the clinical academic career path to health professionals, showing the possibilities and benefits of becoming a clinical academic at King’s. There will be a panel discussion with clinical academic leaders reflecting on their careers to date and discussing the benefits of engaging in research.
The discussion will be chaired by Prof Frances Williams (KCATO Director and Professor of Genomic Epidemiology) and will feature guest speakers:
All staff across King's College London and King's Health Partners are welcome to attend. There will be drinks and food available during the event. The capacity for the event is 50 and a calendar invitation will be sent to confirm a place to those registered.
Please complete this short form to register your place at the event.
Training Programmes Coordinator, NIHR IAT and Centre for Translational Medicine
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