About us

The post holder will join The Psychoactive Trials Group at the Centre for Affective Disorders, King’s College London, led by Dr James Rucker.  

The Psychoactive Trials group is a multidisciplinary research group based at King’s College London, collaborating with South London and Maudsley NHS Trust and King’s College Hospital NHS Trust. You will work across various locations including The Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, The Centre for Mental Health Research and Innovation and the NIHR/Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Facility at King’s College Hospital.

About the role

The Centre for Affective Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience is recruiting a team of highly motivated and passionate clinicians and researchers to deliver an exciting programme of research using various forms of drug assisted therapy in healthy volunteers and participants with mental health conditions.

The post holder will join The Psychoactive Trials Group, led by Dr James Rucker, as part of Centre for Affective Disorders at King’s College London. The post holder will have a leading role in co-ordinating, managing and delivering clinical trials investigating psychedelic therapy in healthy participants and participants with generalised anxiety disorder and treatment resistant depression. The trial team will be supervised by Dr James Rucker, consultant psychiatrist and NIHR Clinician Scientist at the Centre for Affective Disorders, and Catherine Bird, Clinical Trials Manager.

This is a full time and you will be offered an a fixed term contract for 12 months.

About you

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Medical Degree
2. Post graduate experience in psychiatry
3. Full GMC with valid license to practice  

Desirable criteria

1. PhD in relevant field/MD
2. Publication in peer reviewed scientific/medical journals
3. Supervision of junior staff
4. Experience of research interviewing, including psychological measures and clinical assessments in patient groups

Downloading a copy of our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

As part of this commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion and through this appointment process, it is our aim to develop candidate pools that include applicants from all backgrounds and communities.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’  pages.

Interviews are due to be held in July 2025

This post is subject to Disclosure and Barring Service and Occupational Health clearances.

Grade and Salary: £43,455 - £52,013 per annum, plus £2,162 London Weighting Allowance
Job ID: 117787
Close Date: 01-Jul-2025
Contact Person: Catherine Bird
Contact Details: Catherine.bird@kcl.ac.uk