Job description

King s Health Economics, which is part of the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, is seeking a new Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Health Economics.

KHE are a team of health economists with expertise in designing and conducting high quality economic evaluations of programmes and policies, that contribute to health care policy and practice in the UK and globally. We are looking for an ambitious early career researcher who is looking to move to an academic role or a more established academic looking for a senior lecturer role. You will have an interest and expertise in trial based economic evaluations and a willingness to develop your own research portfolio. You will be expected to generate research grant income via collaboration with colleagues both within and outside King s, contribute to methodological developmental work, contribute to the line management and support of research staff, and contribute to the programme of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching at King s.

At King s, we are deeply committed to embedding good equality and diversity practice into all of our activities so that the university is an inclusive, welcoming and inspiring place to work and study, regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.

We encourage and welcome applications from across the global community and all appointments are made solely on merit.

This post will be offered on an indefinite contract

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

Key responsibilities

To establish a portfolio of research projects through the development of collaborations with local, national and international clinical and research colleagues and the submission of high-quality research grant proposals and to ensure research funding and final report deadlines are met.

To disseminate high quality, internationally recognised research outputs, including publications in high impact, peer-reviewed journals, conference presentations and social media.

To first supervise between 1 and 2 postgraduate doctoral students and contribute to the development of other post graduate students through second supervision.

To contribute to the teaching and student support responsibilities of KHE, including King s Masters level health economics modules, supervision of King s Masters student dissertations, and external requests for teaching and training as appropriate.

To contribute to the wider academic world, through board and steering committee membership, peer review, advisory roles, public and patient engagement etc.

The post holder will be expected to maintain and develop working relationships with internal (within King s) and external research teams and organisations, and to maintain and develop internal and external research networks to promote KHE and health economics at King s.

The post holder will be expected to work autonomously to meet the health economics commitments on a portfolio of national and international leading research projects. Support will be available from the KHE Director and Deputy Directors.

The job requires post-graduate health economics research skills that cover the full range of research methods, including proposal development, systematic literature review, economic study design, development of economic tools, database and data collection monitoring, data cleaning and analysis, and economic modelling. The post holder must be able to carry out relevant statistical and modelling analyses and lead on research paper production independently with co-author input.

The post will involve daily work with computers and visual display units. The flexibility to travel within the UK and occasionally travel abroad would be an advantage. Part-time opportunities and flexible working will be considered.

The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria Lecturer (Grade 7)

1. PhD in health economics, economics, or another related subject

2. Comprehensive understanding of the methods of economic evaluation as applied to health care, and of the statistical approaches used by health economists in trial based economic evaluations.

3. Experience of applied health economics research, including health economic evaluation alongside clinical trials.

4. Experience of statistical/econometric analysis of data, and of relevant packages and decision modelling software.

5. Emerging record of successful research collaborations and a strategy for the development of a research portfolio.

6. Good quality, peer-reviewed publications, and evidence of timely submission of reports.

7. Experience of and responsibility for undergraduate or postgraduate teaching.

8. Some experience of academic administration

Desirable criteria Lecturer (Grade 7)

1. Knowledge of research governance and good clinical practice.

2. Knowledge of the UK NHS

Essential Criteria Senior Lecturer (Grade 8)

1. PhD in health economics, economics, or another related subject

2. Comprehensive understanding of the methods of economic evaluation as applied to health care, and of the statistical approaches used by health economists in trial based economic evaluations.

3. Significant experience of applied health economics research, including health economic evaluation alongside clinical trials.

4. Significant experience of statistical/econometric analysis of data, and of relevant packages and decision modelling software.

5. Established record of successful research collaborations and a strategy for the further development of research portfolio.

6. High quality, peer-reviewed publications, and evidence of timely submission of reports.

7. Significant experience of and responsibility for undergraduate or postgraduate teaching and evidence of innovation in teaching and curriculum design.

8. Significant experience of academic administration

Desirable criteria Senior Lecturer (Grade 7)

1. Knowledge of research governance and good clinical practice.

2. Knowledge of the UK NHS