Consultant in Clinical Genetics

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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.

We run major acute services at:

• 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.

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We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.

Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.

• H onesty
• E quity
• A ccountability
• R espect
• T eamwork

These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.

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Job overview

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.

*JD pending RC approval*

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.

Ø 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.

Ø Arrange appropriate investigations and manage the outcome of these in a timely manner. Arrange referral for prenatal and pre-implantation genetic testing where indicated.

Ø 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.

Ø 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

We run major acute services at:

• 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details about the role and responsibilities for the this post, please see attached job description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Entry on the GMC with a Licence to Practice

Desirable criteria

• MD, PhD or MSc relevant to Clinical Genetics BSc in Genetics of Biological Sciences

Registration

Essential criteria

• GMC-registered Medical Practitioner and GMC specialist registration or within 6 months of CCT

Knowledge and Expertise

Essential criteria

• Delivery of good clinical care and effective time management in an independent manner and with full responsibility
• Maintaining good medical practice
• Good working relationships and communication with patients
• Professional behaviour and probity
• Capacity 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
• Broad based training in Clinical Genetics and its subspecialties
• Broad based general professional training in general medicine

Desirable criteria

• NHS experience within the last 3 years
• Specialist interest in prenatal genetics, cancer genetics, or cardiac genetics, as demonstrated through clinical expertise and/or research.

Teaching

Essential criteria

• Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of ongoing interest and achievement in research

Management and Audit

Essential criteria

• Understanding the principles of clinical governance and its implications
• Leadership skills
• Knowledge of finance/budgets
• Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
• Ability to organise research and work within research governance procedures
• Ability to plan strategically and to exercise sound judgements when faced with conflicting pressures
• Ability to motivate and develop the multi-disciplinary team, balancing departmental and personal objectives
• IT skills and computer literacy
• Understanding and experience of audit

Desirable criteria

• Management training
• Evidence of service audit, design or change management

Research/ publications

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of research methodology

Desirable criteria

• Training in research methodology
• Publications in peer review journals
• Presentations to learned societies

Language

Essential criteria

• Able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements

Personal skills

Essential criteria

• Energy and enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure
• An enquiring and critical approach to work
• Caring attitude to patients
• Ability to communicate effectively with colleagues, patients, relatives, GPs, nurses and other staff and agencies
• Commitment to Continuing Medical Education and Professional Development
• Commitment to deliver a high-quality service with patient welfare at forefront of practice

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.

Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.

Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.

Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.

As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BME (Black ,Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

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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.

Documents to download

• Consultant in Clinical Genetics (PDF, 568.3KB)
• Guidance for applying (PDF, 914.7KB)
• HEART values (PDF, 158.5KB)