Locum Consultant in General Genetics

Job overview

Specialist Ambulatory & Medical Specialties Directorate

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

Consultant in General Genetics 1.0 WTE (fixed term 12 months)

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. The post is fixed term for 12 months, on the ground of a career break of 2 established Consultants of the Department.

You should ideally have extensive clinical, training, and teaching experience in General Clinical Genetics. In line with NHS England ambitions, the department is working in progressively and strategically integrating genomics across the organisation. There might be opportunities for the successful candidate to work in an area of special interest, so 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.

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.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Lead for General Clinical Genetics and to the Head of Service.

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

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be accountable to the Clinical Lead for General Clinical Genetics and to the Head of Service and will be able to:

• 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 is welcomed, but not mandatory for this post.
• 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.

While we expect the post holder to be able to deliver the activities above independently, we would potentially consider applications from colleagues not yet eligible to be appointed as Consultant, but able to work at Specialty Doctor level. In this case, supervision from a Consultant of the Department would be provided.

*** Please be advised that this vacancy may close early should we receive sufficient number of applications ***

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.