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- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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Consultant in General Genetics
Closed for applications on: 15-May-2025 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 15-May-2025 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Address
- Great Maze Pond
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 6 sessions per week (6PAs)
Salary
- Salary
- £105,504 - £139,882 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant)
Specialty
- Main area
- General Genetics
- Interview date
- 18/06/2025
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
Specialist Ambulatory Services Directorate
Clinical Genetics, 7th Floor, Borough Wing, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital
Consultant in General - 0.6WTE (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 is yet to be approved by Royal College approval (RCP Ref. 2290016190).
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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.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities and a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
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.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Professional Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Accredited in Clinical Genetics/eligible for entry on Register or within 6 months of receipt of (CCST) in Clinical Genetics, at time of interview (appointment on condition of being accredited).
- Full GMC registration
- MRCP/MRCPCH
Desirable criteria
- Higher degree PhD/MD
Clinical Experience
Essential criteria
- Comprehensive experience in general clinical genetics
- Ability to offer expert clinical opinion on a range of inherited diseases and genetic issues
- Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the clinical care of patients
Desirable criteria
- Sub speciality expertise in rare diseases and trials to complement the clinical genetics service repertoire
- Experience of training junior staff
Clinical Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team in a multi-disciplinary environment
- Ability to advise and contribute to planning of service developments
- Experience of audit management
- Knowledge of Equal Opportunity issues, especially within the field of health provision and education
- Computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage people and resources
Audit Management & IT
Essential criteria
- Evidence of understanding of the role of clinical management
- Understanding of the principles and applications of clinical research
- Ability to apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- Experience of undergraduate teaching and, postgraduate training
Desirable criteria
- Management training or qualification
- Evidence of leadership in the development of clinical services
- Evidence of past and active research activity
- Publications in peer reviewed journals
- Ability to undertake research, especially in support of service advancements
- Teaching qualification
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Dragana Josifova
- Job title
- Lead for General Genetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7188 1364
- Additional information
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