Consultant in Clinical Genetics
The closing date is 09 November 2025
The appointee will be required to provide Clinical Genetics service for both children and adults in NWTRGS. For a rare diseases' appointee, this will probably include prenatal work. A cancer specialist would also be required to attend a number of MDTs. The appointee will need to show some flexibility in accordance with the demands of the service and be able to provide both face-to-face and virtual clinic consultations. There may need to be a degree of flexibility on the working days in the week.
Main duties of the job
The appointee will be able to develop and provide sub-specialist genetics clinics if they have a sub-speciality interest and also be involved in research. The successful appointee will be involved in supervising trainees and teaching in a clinical setting. Experience of formal teaching would be welcome.
Provide a comprehensive clinical service for the evaluation, diagnosis and management of individuals and their families referred to the NWTRGS service, and to be accountable for their patients' care on their journey through the Service. Clinical activity will probably involve exposure to all aspects of Clinical Genetics. Some travel to deliver peripheral clinics will be required.
Arrange appropriate investigations and manage the outcome of these in a timely manner. Arrange referral for prenatal and pre-implantation genetic testing where indicated.
Participate in the consultant on-call Rota (pro rata), triage referrals, and manage urgent referrals, including R14s and prenatals. This may involve urgent clinical queries, seeing urgent referrals, undertaking ward reviews, and providing support to Genetic Counselling colleagues and registrars for urgent (e.g. prenatal) cases and clinical queries as required.
Support service development, which may include development of specialist clinics, mainstreaming, creation of guidelines/pathways for care, and consideration of additional future roles such as management and training roles.
About us
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
* Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
* St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
* Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
* Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Job responsibilities
For further details about the role and responsibilities for the this post, please see attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* oEntry on the GMC with a Licence to Practice
* oMD, PhD or MSc relevant to Clinical Genetics BSc in Genetics of Biological Sciences
Registration
* GMC-registered Medical Practitioner and GMC specialist registration or within 6 months of CCT
Knowledge and Expertise
* oDelivery of good clinical care and effective time management in an independent manner and with full responsibility
* oMaintaining good medical practice
* oGood working relationships and communication with patients
* oProfessional behaviour and probity
* oCapacity to take responsibility for own actions and adopt a supportive approach towards others; capacity to adopt a corporate approach even if this is against personal views or preference
* oBroad based training in Clinical Genetics and its subspecialties
* oBroad based general professional training in general medicine
* oNHS experience within the last 3 years
* oSpecialist interest in prenatal genetics, cancer genetics, or cardiac genetics, as demonstrated through clinical expertise and/or research.
Teaching
* oExperience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
* oEvidence of ongoing interest and achievement in research
Management and Audit
* oUnderstanding the principles of clinical governance and its implications
* oKnowledge of finance/budgets
* oAbility to organise and prioritise workload effectively
* oAbility to organise research and work within research governance procedures
* oAbility to plan strategically and to exercise sound judgements when faced with conflicting pressures
* oAbility to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives
* oIT skills and computer literacy
* oUnderstanding and experience of audit
* oManagement training
* oEvidence of service audit, design or change management
Research/ publications
* oKnowledge of research methodology
* oTraining in research methodology
* oPublications in peer review journals
* oPresentations to learned societies
Language
* oAble to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements
Personal skills
* oEnergy and enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure
* oAn enquiring and critical approach to work
* oCaring attitude to patients
* oAbility to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other staff and agencies
* oCommitment to Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development
* oCommitment to deliver a high-quality service with patient welfare at forefront of practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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