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NHS
£105,504
Full-time
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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 Guys 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 Trusts 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.
Expiry date: 14/05/2025
Consultant in General Genetics | Job details | Find a job
Company
NHS
Salary
£105,504
Job Type
Full-time
Location
London, SE1 9RT
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