Consultant Clinical Genetics interest in rare Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes

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Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Consultant Clinical Geneticist with a focus on rare Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes. The role involves diagnosing and managing patients, collaborating with genetic laboratories, and participating in research. The successful candidate will also supervise trainees and contribute to teaching in a clinical environment. This position offers a competitive salary and the opportunity to work within a flexible and supportive organization.

Qualifications

• Entry on GMS Specialist Register required.
• Experience in inherited connective tissue conditions preferred.
• NHS experience within the last 3 years.

Responsibilities

• See both children and adults in the EDS service.
• Attend several MDTs and provide face-to-face and virtual consultations.
• Supervise trainees and teach in a clinical setting.

Skills

Communication

Teaching

Leadership

Education

MD

PhD

BSc in Genetics or Biological Sciences

Tools

IT skills

Job description

Employer London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Northwick Park Hospital Town Harrow Salary £105,504 - £139,882 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 15/06/2025 23:59

Consultant Clinical Genetics interest in rare Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes

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.

• 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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Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy

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
• A ccountability
• T eamwork

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

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Job overview

The National Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Service

The national Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes (EDS) service is a specialist quaternary service for the diagnosis and follow-up of patients with rare, monogenic types of Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.

The EDS Service aims to:

• correctly diagnose and investigate rare, monogenic types of EDS in children and adults.
• discuss with referrers about diagnosis and management of individuals with rare EDS, encouraging appropriate referral to the clinic and ongoing care.
• deal with complex results for patients investigated by other specialities
• closely collaborate with genetic laboratories
• be available to advise patients with regards to their ongoing care in the context of their diagnosis, (improving their quality of life and reducing risk of complications).
• be available to advise health care professionals
• offer follow-up specific rare types of EDS. This may be through contact with genetic counsellors or for example, in joint cardiovascular clinics.
• Be innovative and improve the service through service development including developing guidelines and pathways of care for the different types of EDS, as well as involvement in clinical governance and audit such as patient satisfaction surveys.
• facilitate and initiate clinical and translational research projects a part of the ongoing HRA/REC approved NEEDS (Natural history of rare EDS types) study to improve care for patients with rare types of EDS, including international collaborations.

Main duties of the job

The appointee will be required to see both children and adults in the EDS service and will also be required to attend several 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.

The appointee will be able to develop and provide inherited connective tissue clinics and is expected to 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 welcomed. The appointee may require a degree of flexibility on the working days in the week.

Regarding Direct Clinical Care (DCC) and Supporting Professional Activities (SPA): SPA sessions should include management, clinical audit, CPD activity, research, and teaching. For this post, allocated SPA time is as a ratio of 7.5 (DCC): 2.5 (SPA). If these sessions are not occupied with such activities, it is expected that they will be allocated to clinical duties.

Working for our organisation

North West Thames Regional Genetics Service

The EDS service is co-located with the North West Thames Regional Genetic Service (NWTRGS) in Northwick Park and St. Mark’s Hospitals. This Service is commissioned to provide specialized Clinical Genetics services to a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse population of 6.9 million people in north-west metropolitan London, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Middlesex.

Several high-profile teaching and specialist hospitals fall within this region, including St. Mary’s, Hammersmith, and Queen Charlotte and Chelsea Hospitals (Imperial College Healthcare Trust) and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals.

Our local academic partner is Imperial College London, which has an international reputation for education and research. There are active collaborations with the Genetics and Genomics section, through shared BRC funding. ICL Genomic Medicine and the MRC Molecular Medicine unit are co-located with the Hammersmith Hospital. The MSc in Human Molecular Genetics, to which NWTRGS contributes, is delivered from this site.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWUH)

LNWUH 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details regarding the role and responsibilities of this job, please refer to the job description.

*JD is still pending Royal College approval. *

Person specification

Qualifications

• • Entry on GMS Specialist Register
• • MD, PhD, or MSc relevant to Clinical Genetics
• • BSc in Genetics of Biological Sciences

Registration

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

Knowledge and Expertise

• • Thorough knowledge and implementation of GMC standards in Good Medical Practice
• • Evidence of experience/interest in inherited connective tissue conditions and cardiovascular genetics
• • Good working relationships and communication with patients
• • Good working relationships and communication with colleagues
• • Good teaching and training experience
• • NHS experience within the last 3 years

Teaching

• • Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
• • Evidence of ongoing interest and achievement in research

Management and Audit

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

Research/ publications

• • Knowledge of research methodology
• • Publications in peer review journals
• • Presentations to learned societies
• • Evidence of contribution to research projects and grant applications
• • Evidence of interest in (translational) rare disease research

Language

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

Personal skills

• • 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Dr Fleur van Dijk Job title Clinical Lead Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Service Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 02088693166