Consultant in General Genetics

Job overview

Specialist Ambulatory Services Directorate

Clinical Genetics, 7th Floor, Borough Wing, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital

Consultant in General - 0.8WTE (permanent) with top up to 1.0 WTE (temporary)

The Genetics Centre at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Trust is seeking to appoint an enthusiastic, forward thinking colleague to join a dynamic and growing Consultant team. You should have extensive clinical, training, and teaching experience in General Clinical Genetics. The department has a strategic ambition to integrate genomics across the organisation and to provide opportunities for  the successful candidate to develop an area of special interest.

We expect the successful candidate to demonstrate a well-rounded clinical and teaching experience in general genetics and genomics, and deliver a high-quality clinical work in outpatient and in-patient setting, as well as to participate in, mainly virtual, multidisciplinary team working.

The successful candidate will join a highly motivated, enthusiastic, innovation favouring, friendly and supportive team. We will encourage our new colleague to develop specialist expertise, or to continue to build on the experience they have already mastered, in an area of interest which preferably, but not exclusively, complements departmental existing strengths.

The job description has been approved by Royal College approval (RCP Ref.  2290016190).

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Lead for Clinical Genetics.

Please see the attached job description for further information regarding the main duties of this role.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Offer expertise in General Genetics and  take a key role in decision-making about complex clinical issues, ensuring a high standard of patient care and to contribute to service developments.
• Undertake general clinics at Guy’s Hospital and at out-reach clinics to provide diagnosis and genetic counselling for patients and their families referred to the department.
• Participate in the regular on-call rota handling triage and urgent clinical queries.
• Liaise with colleagues in other Regional Genetics Centres about the management of extended families.
• Have a specialist interest within genetics, and if not to develop one with support from the department.
• Attend general clinical genetics related MDT meetings on a regular basis.
• Facilitate the training and supervision of newly appointed clinicians and trainees.
• Help drive the agenda to mainstream the clinical genetics service through innovation and interaction with other specialists and academic partners.
• Liaise with the laboratories to support whole exome/whole genome sequencing (WES/WGS) in clinical practice and with clinicians from other specialties where appropriate as well as to facilitate validation of results from research studies
• Support Genomic Medicine at GSTT for phenotyping of patients identified in research studies, and feedback of results, offering cascade screening and prenatal testing/PGT to parents and relatives where appropriate.
• Contribute to regular teaching commitments at both post and undergraduate levels, and for members of other health care professions across GSTT and the wider region.
• Contribute to the departmental clinical governance programme through audit projects, academic seminars, support group meetings and journal clubs, which are attended by all members of the clinical team.
• Collaborate with academic and clinical colleagues to enhance the Trust’s translational research portfolio, at all times meeting the full requirements of Research Governance. There will be opportunities for involvement with cutting-edge research and also to bring other studies onto the research portfolio. The post has no out-of-hours on-call responsibilities.