Psychosocial Healthcare in Primary Care

·Candidates must hold a PhD.

·Candidates are expected to have significant and demonstrable research experience in one or more themes relevant to preventive and psychosocial healthcare. Research quality should be evident from publications in international journals and experience in writing project proposals. International research experience is an asset.

·You have strong didactic skills and preferably demonstrable teaching experience. You possess the necessary communication and organizational skills and are a team player.

·Your spoken and written English is excellent. The administrative language of KU Leuven is Dutch. A good command of Dutch is required due to the Dutch-language teaching responsibilities. If you do not speak Dutch at the time of appointment, KU Leuven offers language training to enable participation in administrative meetings. Before teaching in Dutch, you will be given the opportunity to acquire the necessary language proficiency.

At the Department of Public Health and Primary Care of KU Leuven, a part-time or full-time position is vacant in the independent academic staff within the domain of primary healthcare, with a particular focus on psychosocial healthcare and preventive and lifestyle-oriented themes.Within the Biomedical Sciences Group at KU Leuven, the Department of Public Health and Primary Care conducts research in societal aspects of healthcare. Its members include experts in disease prevention, health protection, health promotion, quality assurance, health care policy, bioethics, health law, health economics, health communication, biostatistics, epidemiology, geriatrics and gerontology, nursing and midwifery, emergency medicine and general practice medicine. Members of the Department conduct interdisciplinary research with a major impact at a national and international level. They also provide high-quality education in various educational areas. In addition, they provide healthcare professionals and institutions with insights, concepts and techniques that enable them to respond optimally to the needs and expectations of the patient and society in the area of healthcare. Moreover, they seek to improve collaboration with clinical medicine and research, and they are closely involved in national and international partnerships. The Department of Public Health and Primary Care offers a dynamic research context that stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration.

We offer a full-time academic appointment in an intellectually stimulating environment. KU Leuven is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that conducts both fundamental and applied scientific research. It is strongly inter- and multidisciplinary and strives for international excellence. It actively collaborates with research partners in Belgium and abroad. It offers students academic education based on high-level scientific research.

• You will work in Leuven, a historic yet dynamic and vibrant city in the heart of Belgium, twenty minutes from Brussels, the capital of the European Union, and less than two hours from Paris, London, and Amsterdam.
• Depending on your profile and qualifications, you will be appointed or tenured in one of the ranks of the independent academic staff: assistant professor, associate professor, professor, or full professor. Junior researchers are typically appointed as tenure-track assistant professors for a period of five years. Upon positive evaluation, they are tenured as associate professors.
• Holders of external postdoctoral fellowships may be asked to complete their mandate first.
• KU Leuven is well set to welcome foreign professors and their family and provides practical support with regard to immigration & administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching,
• To facilitate scientific onboarding and accelerate research in the first phase a starting grant [of 110.000 euro] is offered to new professors appointed for at least 50%.