Consultant

Job Description

Consultant - Arts, Health & Wellbeing Hub, will support King's College London's Arts, Health & Wellbeing Strategy through:

- Working with the AHW Programme lead to develop the AHW working group and online presence, and,

- Working with colleagues at IoPPN (lead academic Carmine Pariente) and across King's to prepare for the launch of Scaling-up Health-Arts Programmes: Implementation and Effectiveness Research (SHAPER).

A proposed task list is below; a work plan is to be devised with the AHW Programme Lead, Nikki Crane, for approval by Dan Walker. 

Work with Nikki to:

• Plan content and new formats for the next A/H/W Working Group meetings (3-4 meetings per year) and support engagement of members.


• Extend the wider King’s A/H/W (virtual) network
  
  
  
  • increase contacts
  
  
  • assist on researching and prioritizing information and news to share with the network to keep them informed/engaged
  
  
  • Create opportunities for more face to face contact with key players in A/H/W across faculties to boost recruitment and engagement
  
  
  
  


• Contribute to devising/planning the symposium on social prescribing, Autumn 2019, as part of Science Gallery Anxiety season. Support communications/engagement around this event involving the Working Group and wider network.


• Support the mapping exercise of A/H/W programmes across the university (Sotiris to undertake the desk research):
  
  
  
  • explore where the opportunity is for collaboration/interdisciplinary work across faculties
  
  
  • build a more joined up story to underpin the vision for A/H/W university wide
  
  
  
  


• Help to build up further knowledge and contacts in the areas identified as priorities in the A/H/W Exec Summary -including student mental health and wellbeing and Curriculum development - and identify best ways to strategically support these areas of work.


• Lay the ground for generating engagement in the King’s/Wellcome scale up programme SHAPER, maximizing the opportunities that this programme will bring within KHP and building momentum for the A/H/W hub at King’s
  
  
  
  • increase connections to relevant individuals and departments as part of communications/distribution
  
  
  • explore potential for events/symposia, knowledge exchange and learning opportunities - (much of this maps into the public engagement plan for Wellcome).
  
  
  
  


• Explore additional funding sources for SHAPER

Work to be undertaken specifically in relation to the King’s/Wellcome scale up programme  (SHAPER) - to be discussed

To ensure a smooth transition and no loss of momentum to the project - the following will need to be undertaken:

 

• Constructing our public engagement plans and activities

• Holding further discussions with further potential collaborators e.g. recommendation (from Robert Lechler) to get Prof Sally Marlow (psychiatrist) on board; inviting a research ethicist.


• Establishing our oversight programme board


• Constructing Gantt chart for the projects/programme– detailed analysis of dependencies etc


• Writing job descriptions / adverts for research and admin posts


• Beginning the ethical permissions paperwork - NRES IRAS and NIHR CPMS systems


• NIHR CRN registration for the research studies


• Securing intervention delivery spaces – work req’d to confirming ballet studios in South London


• Office set up at the Wohl Institute, Denmark Hill


• Setting up internal budget cost centres/codes and reporting mechanisms.

Advanced degree

• High degree of organisational awareness 

• Logical and evidence-based in decision-making (trained and published scientist).

• Adept in establishing extensive networks and nurturing good relationships with communities

in science, clinical medicine, education, ethics and social sciences, science communication,

arts, history of medicine, broader humanities, universities (UK and internationally), media,

financial institutions and with funding bodies.

• Track-record of leadership  

Can work independently or part of team.

• Highly personable with acute influencing skills.

• Resilient and tenacious.

• I am also a person who fosters an inclusive workplace where diversity and inclusion are

regarded as strengths rather than a box-ticking exercise.