# Consultant Clinical Geneticist 8PAs > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-clinical-geneticist-8pas/fda09e43-3233-4356-bbbf-314ac57bcbe4 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/consultant-clinical-geneticist-8pas/fda09e43-3233-4356-bbbf-314ac57bcbe4.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Royal Victoria Infirmary - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Clinical Genetics - **Grade:** Consultant - **Salary:** £113,565 - £150,569 per annum pro rata - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 8 sessions per week (no on call) - **Closing date:** 2026-08-26T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-12T11:21:06.389Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Tyne_Wear/Newcastle_upon_Tyne/The_Newcastle_upon_Tyne_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Genetics/Genetics-v8205614 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8205614?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.newcastle-hospitals.org.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated team. This less than full time (8 PA) substantive post provides an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated clinical geneticist with a broad based training in all areas of clinical genetics to join the Northern Genetics Service. A candidate with an interest in paediatric and fetal genetics would be desirable. The post-holder will be part of a large multidisciplinary team of clinical and laboratory staff with administrative and managerial support who provide a co-ordinated genetics service to a population of 3.1 million people in the North East of England and Cumbria; and highly specialised services for people affected by limb girdle muscular dystrophies in the wider UK population. The Service is part of the Directorate of Integrated Laboratory Medicine. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification. ### Main duties of the job The appointee will share responsibility for the delivery of the clinical genetics service as part of a multidisciplinary team consisting of consultant clinical geneticists, trainees and genetic counsellors working in close collaboration with the North East and Yorkshire Genomics Laboratory Hub (NEYGLH). The appointee will be expected to enable delivery of a genomic diagnostic service through participation, where required, in Specialist MDTs and specialist clinics for diagnosis and management of people with rare genetic disorders. Outpatient Clinics will be provided at the Institute of Genetic Medicine, RVI and other regional clinic sites, to be agreed as part of a team job plan. There is no formal on-call commitment in this post. For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Richard Martin, Clinical Lead on 0191 241 8700. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Clinical: - Participate in multi-professional triage of patients and families referred for genetic assessment. - Provide expert diagnostic opinion on patients with adult or paediatric syndromes as part of a multi-professional team. - Ensure appropriate diagnostic testing is undertaken and the results of these and their implications are communicated to referrer patients, relevant family members, primary care team and other involved clinicians as appropriate. - Ensure appropriate follow up arrangements are made for patients and family members. - Manage outpatient clinics to ensure that care of the highest quality is provided and that relevant local and national targets are met. - Work in collaboration with laboratory staff to ensure that appropriate diagnostic testing is undertaken and that the most clinically effective use of these resources is made. - Participate in Genomic MDT Meetings to facilitate interpretation of Genomic test results - Participate in regular Department and multidisciplinary team meetings as appropriate. - Undertake clinical duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives. - Undergo Continued Medical Education (CME) in accordance with guidelines stipulated by the Royal College of Physicians or Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath. - Undertake an annual appraisal and job plan review. It is expected that objectives within job plan reviews will be based on Trust objectives such as fulfilment of fixed contractual commitments on the basis of a 42 week working year with due allowance for statutory holidays - It is a condition of employment that so far as is reasonably practicable, all employees must minimise the risk of infection to themselves, colleagues, patients, relatives and visitors and, in so doing, must: be familiar with, and adhere to Trust policies and guidance on infection prevention and control attend Trust Induction Programme(s) and statutory education programmes in infection prevention and control include infection prevention and control as an integral part of your continuous personal/professional development take personal responsibility so far as is reasonably practicable, in helping ensure that effective prevention and control of health care acquired infections is embedded into everyday practice and applied consistently by you and your colleagues Managerial: - Participate in all aspects of Clinical Governance, including participation in audit projects, formulation of guidelines and full involvement with risk management processes - Assist the Directorate Manager and Clinical Leadership Group in the timely investigation of complaints if necessary - Contribute to the general organisation and running of the Genetics service within the Trust, working in collaboration with other colleagues. - Take the lead on specific management projects as requested by the Directorate Manager or Clinical Leadership Group. Administrative: - Undertake administrative duties in relation to the care of his/her patients and in relation to the running of Northern Genetics Service - Undertake general administrative duties within a context of compliance with Directorate and Trust aims and objectives Research / Audit: - Although the appointee will be not be expected to participate substantively in clinical research and service innovation, there are potential opportunities to act as a Principal Investigator for NIHR portfolio studies with the support from R&D as well as develop their own research. - The appointee will be expected participate in improvement and innovation activity. Where such activity creates potential new intellectual property this must comply with Trust policy on Innovation and Intellectual Property. - Undertake regular audit of compliance with national and local clinical guidelines. Teaching: - Participate in teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate students. - Participate in education of health professionals about use of new genomic testing and advances in genomic medicine. Flexibility: In line with the Trust’s core value of placing patients at the heart of everything we do, we are developing our service provision to be responsive to the needs of our patients. To meet those needs some staff groups will be increasingly asked to work a more flexible work pattern so that they can offer services in the evening or weekend. As a result any offer of employment to a consultant post will be subject to you agreeing to work a new more flexible pattern or working in the future if required, including evening and weekend work. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Research **Desirable** - Evidence of involvement in and understanding of research methodology and publication of findings. - Evidence of presentations at national / international conferences within the last 2 years ### Teaching **Essential** - Experience of participation in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching **Desirable** - Postgraduate qualification in Medical Education - Teaching experience in a cardiac genetics setting ### Clinical experience **Essential** - Ability to offer an expert clinical opinion in an outpatient and inpatient setting. - Ability to use diagnostic testing appropriately and to interpret results of such testing **Desirable** - Experience in fetal and paediatric genetics - Evidence of MDT working ### Management and administration **Essential** - Committed to share in professional and managerial responsibilities necessary to fulfil the obligations of the Directorate to the Trust and its workforce - Successful completion of audit projects - Flexible approach to service delivery and committed approach to development - A thorough understanding of Clinical Governance **Desirable** - Evidence of successful participation in management processes ### Further specialised training and experience **Desirable** - Evidence of experience in assessment of whole genome results - Evidence of experience in fetal and paediatric genetics ### Education, Qualifications and Specialist Skills **Essential** - Primary Medical Qualification - Full GMC Registration. - Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register (within 6 months from the date of the AAC). - MRCP/MRCPCH or appropriate professional qualification **Desirable** - Higher Degree - Special skills training in the specialty - Postgraduate qualification in interpretation of genomic data ## Documents - [newcastle staff benefits (pdf, 274.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2721) - [behaviour and civility charter (pdf, 93.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2922) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 684.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10533273) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.