Clinical or Non-Clinical Senior Lecturer, Reader, or Professor in Kidney Medicine

Consultant Clinical Academic scale: £90,532 to £131,964 per annum plus London Weighting of £2,162 per annum

Non-Clinical minimum salaries: £73,071 per annum (Senior Lecturer); £78,866 per annum (Reader); £90,139 per annum (Professor)

Are you an early-stage scientist or a principal investigator with a research programme in kidney biology, kidney disease or a related area relevant to understanding the kidney? If so, consider joining the Centre for Inflammatory Disease, part of the Department of Immunology and Inflammation, where we offer exciting academic opportunities within an integrated and supportive environment. We are interested in applications from scientists with or without a clinical background with experience in research funding, publications and teaching commensurate to career stage. You will be able to develop new research initiatives; supervise, train and mentor staff and students; and contribute to the management and development of the Department.

To excel in this role you will have, or will be developing, a national and/or an international reputation and a record of excellent research in your field. You will be collaborative, able to build and sustain effective working relationships, and will have strong communication and leadership skills, with experience of training students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Imperial College has a broad range of clinical and non-clinical research expertise which provides an outstanding multidisciplinary environment in basic, clinical and translational research. The Department of Immunology and Inflammation is embedded within this vibrant research environment and is proud of its supportive ethos and coordinated activities in research, teaching and public engagement.

Informal inquiries about the post can be directed to Professor Matthew Pickering, Centre Director (matthew.pickering@imperial.ac.uk)

For further assistance in the application process, please contact: Maria Monteiro, Senior Appointments Manager (m.monteiro@imperial.ac.uk) Telephone: +44 (0) 207 5949648.

To apply, please click “Apply Now”.

For Clinical Senior Lecturer applications please view Academic and clinical guidance notes, which sets out the mandatory areas that must be covered in your application.

Closing date: 16 September 2024 (23:59 hours BST)

Clinical Academic appointments require checks by the Disclosure and Barring Service or DBS, (formerly the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB)). As this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, a satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, at the appropriate level, will be required for the successful candidate.

Further information about the DBS disclosure process can be found on the Home Office website or by telephoning 03000 200 190. You may also wish to view the College’s DBS webpage for policy statements on the Recruitment and Employment of Ex-Offenders and the Secure Storage, Use, Retention & Disposal of Disclosures and Disclosure Information.

The College is a proud signatory to the San-Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which means that in hiring and promotion decisions, we evaluate applicants on the quality of their work, not the journal impact factor where it is published. For more information, see https://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-evaluation/

The College believes that the use of animals in research is vital to improve human and animal health and welfare. Animals may only be used in research programmes where their use is shown to be necessary for developing new treatments and making medical advances. Imperial is committed to ensuring that, in cases where this research is deemed essential, all animals in the College’s care are treated with full respect, and that all staff involved with this work show due consideration at every level. http://www.imperial.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/about-imperial-research/research-integrity/animal-research/

We are committed to equality of opportunity, to eliminating discrimination and to creating an inclusive working environment for all. We therefore encourage candidates to apply irrespective of age, disability, marriage or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, race, religion and belief, gender reassignment, sex, or sexual orientation. We are an Athena SWAN Silver Award winner, a Disability Confident Leader and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.