Job vacancy: Consultant in Clinical Genetics, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford

Job summary

Main area: Clinical Genetics
Grade: Consultant
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 10 sessions per week
Job ref: 321-S5-1525-FK-B

Employer: Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The Oxford Centre for Genomic Medicine (OxGEM)
Town: Oxford
Salary: £99,532 - £131,964 Not defined
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/07/2024 23:59

Consultant in Clinical Genetics

Consultant

The Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.

The Trust comprises of four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Many of our recruitment programmes use values-based interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significance difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families.

For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit http://www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values/default.aspx

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical activities

The core activity of the role is direct clinical care (DCC) related to General Clinical Genetics. The full time position is for 10 NHS PAs each week. While the post holder will spend most of their time at the OxGEM base located within the grounds of the Nuffield Orthopaedic Hospital in Headington, the appointee will be given responsibility for providing general clinical genetics services to designated peripheral clinics or regions

Core aspects of the role include triaging of referrals, seeing cases in clinic (which is currently offered as a blended approach of face to face, video and telephone consultations); offering telephone or letter advice to GPs and other colleagues; and follow up of genetic cases as appropriate by phone, or virtually by notes review and appropriate follow up activity. Other key aspects of the job include participation in multidisciplinary meetings with colleagues outside genetics to support the mainstreaming process, and engaging fully with OxGEM departmental meetings

Junior medical support and training: The Oxford Clinical Genetics service provides training for four Specialist Registrar’s and additional Clinical Fellow posts. As one of the consultant team, the postholder will participate fully in clinical supervision and education of the trainees and fellows within the department

Out-patient clinics: An OxGEM consultant outpatient clinic would typically include separate lists for a consultant, a registrar or fellow and a genetic counsellor. Pre and post clinic support to the junior medical staff and genetic counsellor colleagues is provided by the overseeing consultant. Genetic counsellor led clinics are also well established. A 10 PA job plan would typically include 10 clinics per month, with a mix of new patients and follow-up cases

In-patient cover: Cover for urgent ward referrals and advice is provided on a rota basis with all consultants participating, approximately on a 1 in 7 basis. There is no out of hours on-call

Liaison with the genetics laboratory: The Oxford genetics laboratory is part of the West Midlands, Oxford and Wessex Genomic Lab Hub (South-Central GLH). Regular review of genetic test results with laboratory scientists is facilitated through weekly joint MDT meetings

Clinical Audit: The successful applicant would be expected to participate in medical audit. OxGEM has an active programme of regular departmental audit, and participates in South West of Britain (SWOB) regional audits and national genetic audits

Support of mainstream clinicians. OxGem is part of the South Central GMSA with Wessex and West Midlands. The successful applicant would be expected to participate in mainstreaming activities such as teaching and training mainstream colleagues and supporting return of genomic laboratory results

Supporting Professional Activity

All consultants are given time within their job plan to participate in the department’s clinical audit programme, participate in the trust appraisal process, undertake annual job planning and undertake other clinical professional development activities to support revalidation

Person specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential criteria

MRCP(UK) or equivalent
Entry on the General Medical Council (GMC) Specialist Register in Clinical Genetics via one of the following a) Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) -the proposed CCT date must be within 6 months of the interview b) Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration (CSER)
GMC registration

Desirable criteria

Higher medical degree (MD or PhD) or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

Training in Clinical Genetics to specialist level or equivalent
High level of competence in management of complex genetic cases
Evidence of ability to make decisions at consultant level and to manage complex clinical problems

Desirable criteria

Development of a specialist interest within clinical genetics
Experience of providing genetics service at consultant level

Skills and Knowledge

Essential criteria

Excellent leadership skills. Evidence of ability to lead a clinical team at the level of a consultant
Effective administrative and time management skills. Training in clinical management
Evidence of significant contribution to successful teamwork
Good spoken and written English. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
Experience of formal and informal contributions to teaching and training
Evidence of effective and sustained contribution to clinical governance, clinical risk management and clinical audit activities
Interest in research

Desirable criteria

Management qualification
Education qualification
Peer reviewed publications

COVID-19: The COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this time, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. We will be checking the vaccination status of all new starters so that we can manage individual and environmental risks and so that we can support those who may be undecided about vaccination. If you are unvaccinated there is helpful advice and information at Oxfordshire County Council Website where you can also find out more about how to access vaccination. There is a current Government consultation underway which will determine whether some new starters may need to be vaccinated.

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