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Professor and Director of the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People

Employer
KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
Location
London (Greater) (GB)
Closing date
9 Sep 2021

Job Details

Professor and Director of the Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People

Job ID: 028585

Salary: Negotiable depending on experience

Posted: 27-Jul-2021

Closing date: 9-Sep-2021 

Business unit: IoPPN

Department: Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Contact details: Sarah Fraser or Robyn Eade, kings-search@kcl.ac.uk

Academic and teaching    

Job Description

The issue of young people’s mental health is at a pivotal moment. One in eight children or young people in the UK now have a clinically diagnosable mental health disorder and we are fast approaching endemic public health proportions. The Pears Maudsley Centre for Children and Young People is a pioneering new centre for care and research based in South London at the heart of the world leading Maudsley Hospital site. This ground-breaking centre will transform our understanding and treatment of young people’s mental health, halving the time it takes to bring new treatments to patients, changing their futures for good.
 
Our expert scientists, clinicians and educators from King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) and the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (SLaM) already lead the world in approaches to mental health. Together, we have the largest group of mental health scientists and clinical academics in Europe. With construction of a new building to house the Centre that is due to open in 2023, we are now searching for a Centre Director to lead the world-class research that will aim to improve the understanding and mental health of children and young people.
 
The successful candidate will provide outstanding research and clinical research leadership and will build and grow world-class research teams that work synergistically with clinicians both within the Centre, the IoPPN, and SLaM. They will also be an exceptional communicator, policy influencer and able to work closely with fundraising teams and the Maudsley Charity to attract philanthropic income to deliver additional valuable and measurable benefits for research and patient care.
 
This is an exciting opportunity to build a global brand for the Centre by raising the profile nationally and internationally through delivery of clinical excellence, ground-breaking research and developing a culture of exceptional innovation.
 
For further information about the role please visit   https://jobs.kcl.ac.uk/gb/en/director-pears-maudsley-centre  and to apply for this role, please go to  the King’s College London Job Opportunities page and submit the specified documentation. Informal enquiries may be made to the King’s Search Team; please contact either Sarah Fraser or Robyn Eade at kings-search@kcl.ac.uk.
 
The advert will close on Sunday 12th September. The selection process will include a presentation and panel interview. Interviews and assessments will be held in late autumn 
 
King’s is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, and through this appointment it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities. We particularly encourage applications from women, people from black and minority ethnic communities, the LGBT+ community and from disabled people.

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King'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: www.kingshealthpartners.org.

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 www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.

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