Do you enjoy supporting students and keeping complex processes running smoothly? 

Are you highly organised, customer-focused, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment?

We're looking for an organised and proactive Course Assistant to join our team and help deliver an excellent student experience across the KMMS medical programme. 

Working closely with students, colleagues, external organisations and NHS partners, you'll be confident handling a wide range of enquiries, managing competing priorities, and maintaining accuracy when working with sensitive and frequently changing information. In this varied and busy role, you'll provide administrative and organisational support for key aspects of the curriculum including student enrolment and induction, assessments and examinations, patient engagement activities and programme evaluation.

As Course Assistant you can expect to be involved in:

• Supporting the Curriculum and Assessment team to deliver all administration associated with the organisation and delivery of the medical curriculum and student experience
• Supporting processing relating to assessment, examination and attendance monitoring in line with our policies and procedures
• Maintaining accurate curriculum information on our student portal and virtual learning environment
• Entering and updating student, programme and assessment records

What you will bring to the role:

• Strong customer service experience and a commitment to delivering a high-quality service 
• Demonstrable experience of dealing with difficult or complicated queries that can require careful attention and tact to resolve 
• Experience of taking your own initiative, and prioritising and managing time effectively
• Experience of working in a confidential environment 

As a member of our team, you can expect a friendly, open and collaborative working environment and support in your development and wellbeing. You'll enjoy a range of great staff benefits including:

• Hybrid working options allowing a flexible blend of office and home working (to be agreed in line with business needs)
• 43 days' leave per year (personal leave, bank holidays and additional days allocated for the Christmas period, pro rata for part-time staff)
• Excellent pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Corporate employee-funded healthcare plan, in partnership with Benenden Health

For more information about what you can look forward to if you join us, visit our dedicated webpage: Working at Kent

We are ambitious for our people, our communities and the region we serve – join us in making the world a better place. Visit our website for more on who we are: http://www.kent.ac.uk/about/

Please see the links below to view the full job description and to apply for this post. For further information regarding the application process, please contact peopleserviceshr@kent.ac.uk quoting reference number KMMS-114-26

Closing Date: 22 Jun 2026

Section: Administrative

Salary: £24,685 to £26,093 per annum

We are seeking an inspirational researcher, educator and role model to join both the Kent and Medway Medical School as a clinical academic and the Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust as a Consultant Psychiatrist. 

This is a joint appointment with Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust and approximately 50% of the role will be carried out under an honorary consultant contract with the Trust in adult psychiatry. 

This is an exciting opportunity to undertake high quality research within an innovative academic environment, to initiate new avenues of research and to make an important contribution to the aims of Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust, the medical school and the partner universities. 

To make your mark in this role you must be suitably qualified and an experienced senior clinician, with evidence of medical education experience, high quality research, publications and conference presentations, and an innovative and co-operative approach that matches our own.  

This post is based across Maidstone, Canterbury, Kent and Medway. 

In this role you will:

• Engage in individual and collaborative research and scholarship 
• Develop income from research, enterprise or corporate engagement 
• Deliver high-quality teaching to students in KMMS 
• Manage, appraise and give professional supervision to Resident doctors within the Trust 
• Ensure that Resident doctors working with the post holder operate within the parameters of the New Deal and are Working Time Directive compliant 
• Undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients in the Trust 

To be successful in this role you will have: 

• Current medical qualification, full GMC registration with current licence to practise in general adult psychiatry with entry on the GMC Specialist Register (or within 6 months) 
• A research or professional doctoral degree (PhD or MD) in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience 
• Evidence of research excellence in psychiatry including publications in internationally competitive journals and conference presentations 
• A Certificate of Completion of Specialist training (CCST) and approved under S12 OR able to achieve with 3 months of appointment 

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust provides specialist mental health care to the people of Kent and Medway through award winning services and has ambitious plans to become an exemplar in Research and Quality Improvement. 

KMMS opened to our first cohort of students in September 2020. Our mission is to widen participation, train excellent doctors, and improve health in Kent and Medway.  

Prospective candidates are encouraged to contact Professor Sukhwinder Shergill (sukhwinder.shergill@kmms.ac.uk) for an informal discussion about the role. 

Please see the links below for the job description and to apply for this post. Please note that the job description is currently pending approval from the Royal College of Psychiatrists. 

For further information regarding the application process please contact peopleserviceshr@kent.ac.uk quoting reference number KMMS-086-26-R. 

As a member of our team, you can expect a friendly, open and collaborative working environment and support in your development and wellbeing. You'll enjoy a range of great staff benefits including: 

• 43 days' leave per year (personal leave, bank holidays and additional days allocated for the Christmas period, pro rata for part-time staff) 
• Excellent pension scheme with generous employer contributions 
• Corporate employee-funded healthcare plan, in partnership with Benenden Health

For more information about what you can look forward to if you join us, visit our dedicated webpage: Working at Kent 

Closing Date: 12 Jul 2026

Section: Academic

Salary: Clinical Academic (salary will be benchmarked to the NHS pay scale appropriate to the successful candidate’s clinical discipline and level in clinical practice)

Are you an experienced project and research professional with a talent for developing systems, driving improvement, and building effective partnerships? 

Do you enjoy working collaboratively to deliver strategic outcomes in a dynamic environment?

Kent and Medway Medical School is seeking a Research Development Manager to work closely with the Director of Research and research support colleagues to deliver the School's research strategy, grow research and innovation income, strengthen partnerships, and help build an inclusive, sustainable research culture. You will lead research administration and governance across the School, working with colleagues at KMMS, Canterbury Christ Church University and regional NHS partners, to ensure effective research support and service delivery.

As Research Development Manager you can expect to be involved in:

• Establishing and managing all research and innovation related processes, policies and procedures in KMMS to implement the KMMS Research Strategy
• Producing data, management information and reports and providing support for research related meetings
• Monitoring KMMS research and innovation activity and evaluating progress on the KMMS Research Strategy implementation plan 
• Supporting KMMS with Research Exercise Framework and Knowledge Exchange Framework submissions

What will you bring to the role?

• Experience in project management and working within growing or developing organisations
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills  
• Significant knowledge and understanding of the higher education research environment
• A proven track record of applying for grants in a research environment and increasing revenue 
• Experience of successfully managing staff

What we can offer in return:

As a member of our team, you can expect a friendly, open and collaborative working environment and support in your development and wellbeing. You'll enjoy a range of great staff benefits including:

• Hybrid working options allowing a flexible blend of office and home working (to be agreed in line with business needs)
• 43 days' leave per year (personal leave, bank holidays and additional days allocated for the Christmas period, pro rata for part-time staff)
• Excellent pension scheme with generous employer contributions
• Corporate employee-funded healthcare plan, in partnership with Benenden Health

For more information about what you can look forward to if you join us, visit our dedicated webpage: Working at Kent

We are ambitious for our people, our communities and the region we serve – join us in making the world a better place. Visit our website for more on who we are: http://www.kent.ac.uk/about/

Please see the links below to view the full job description and to apply for this post. For further information regarding the application process, please contact peopleserviceshr@kent.ac.uk quoting reference number KMMS-111-26-R.

Closing Date: 28 Jun 2026

Section: Administrative

Salary: £39,906 to £44,746 per annum