Lecturer in Psychology as Applied to Dentistry

Job title:

Lecturer in Psychology as Utilized to Dentistry

Firm

King’s Faculty London

Job description

Job id: 086309. Wage: £51,974 – £61,021 every year, together with London Weighting Allowance.Posted: 14 March 2024. Time limit: 11 April 2024.Enterprise unit: Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences. Division: Oral Medical & Translational Science.Contact particulars: Tim Newton. Tim.newton@kcl.ac.ukLocation: Man’s Campus. Class: Tutorial & Educating.Job descriptionThroughout the Centre for Oral, Medical and Translational Sciences (COCTS) of the College of Dentistry, Oral & Craniofacial Sciences at King’s Faculty London, there has existed a gaggle of psychologists working within the discipline of the applying of psychological concept to the examine of dentistry for over 30 years.Traditionally the areas of analysis focus for the staff have been:

• Interventions to scale back dental anxiousness and continual oro-facial ache
• Interventions to help behaviour change in dental settings
• Understanding the mechanisms of early recognition of most cancers

The staff have a document of worldwide excellence within the discipline of psychology as utilized to dentistry, together with analysis, instructing, information alternate and influence.The College now want to discover the potential for increasing the scope of labor to incorporate collaborations with Well being psychologists throughout King’s Faculty London, most notably inside the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience ( ):

• The biopsychosocial processes underlying adaptation and symptom administration in long-term circumstances
• Digital well being applied sciences
• Interventions for the administration of long run circumstances

We want to appoint a person to play a key function in growing and executing internationally main analysis as an impartial investigator and thru collaborative working. The profitable candidate may have a robust analysis observe document related to a number of of the areas listed and have expertise of main interdisciplinary actions and can work in the direction of establishing a analysis program that draws exterior funding to help your analysis in step with the expectations of a probationary Lecturer.The postholder will contribute to academic programmes inside the college, together with each undergraduate and postgraduate taught programs.We significantly encourage candidates who’ve expertise of excellence in science communication who can help the Centre’s translational agenda and Influence actions.This publish will likely be supplied on an indefinite contract.It is a full-time place (job sharing will likely be thought of).Key obligations

• Undertake nationally and internationally main analysis & preserve a constantly high-level output of publications and shows, in a discipline of well being psychology complementary to the present strengths inside King’s Faculty London.
• Work in the direction of growing an impartial, peer reviewed analysis programme within the discipline of well being psychology.
• Appeal to exterior funding to help each particular person and collaborative-led analysis according to methods set out in schools’ expectations of lecturers.
• Supervise postdoctoral analysis employees and PhD college students to make sure their efficient growth.
• Construct and preserve worldwide and world-leading collaborations as related to the analysis discipline.
• Have interaction in multidisciplinary analysis in collaboration with different analysis teams within the college and the broader KCL group.
• Contribute to instructing of undergraduate and postgraduate college students within the college and extra broadly at KCL together with designing instructing materials, utilizing acceptable instructing, studying help and evaluation strategies. Specifically have the ability to contribute to the supply of the undergraduate dental curricula in areas together with selling well being behaviour change and upkeep, and healthcare communication.
• Act as private tutor to undergraduate and/or postgraduate college students.
• Contribute to teaching-related actions reminiscent of setting and marking examinations.
• Undertake or replace skilled abilities as acceptable and related in help of instructing excellence.
• Play a full function in administration by contributing at conferences and volunteering to assist with committees and tasks.
• Sit on acceptable centre and college committees and contribute to the welfare of the school and the tutorial group.
• Help in creating and sustaining a optimistic office tradition.

*The above checklist of obligations is probably not exhaustive, and the publish holder will likely be required to undertake such duties and obligations as could moderately be anticipated inside the scope and grading of the publish. *Abilities, information, and expertiseImportant standards * Registration with the HCPC as a Practitioner Psychologist.

• PhD or equal in one of many following areas: Interventions to advertise and preserve health-related behaviour; interventions for dental anxiousness and/or ache administration; the biopsychosocial processes underlying adaptation and symptom administration in long-term circumstances; digital well being applied sciences; interventions for the administration of long run circumstances.
• Expertise of postdoctoral stage analysis.
• File of publication of high-quality analysis outputs in peer reviewed educational journals.
• Expertise of grant software for analysis tasks; early proof of securing exterior or inner grant revenue.
• Expertise of coaching and supervision of undergraduate and/or masters college students.
• Wonderful written and verbal communication abilities.
• Dedication to selling and sustaining a optimistic office tradition.
• Potential to work each independently and as a part of a multidisciplinary staff.
• Potential to speak advanced concepts to a variety of audiences.

Fascinating standards * Proof of supervision of postgraduate analysis college students.

• Proof of expertise and innovation in science communication.
• Expertise of interdisciplinary analysis.

Additional dataFor additional data candidates are invited to contact Tim Newton ( tim.newton@kcl.ac.uk), Professor of Psychology as Utilized to Dentistry.

Anticipated wage

£51974 – 61021 per yr

Location

Strand, Central London

Job date

Sat, 06 Apr 2024 03:36:31 GMT

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