Clinical Fellow: Perinatal Genetics & Genomics

The National Maternity Hospital; Dublin; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

The National Maternity Hospital in Dublin seeks a Fellow in Perinatal Genetics and Genomics for a 1-year, full-time post based at NMH. The role reports to the Head of the Prenatal Clinical Genetics and Genomics.

Responsibilities include managing a clinical caseload, contributing to joint clinics with the consultant geneticist and obstetricians, coordinating genetic testing, and developing teaching materials and a department database.

Qualifications

• Phlebotomy and good communication skills are required.
• Ability to work as part of an MDT and liaise with laboratories internationally with consultant support.
• Desirable: ability to develop teaching material for SpR colleagues and other medical staff, and to develop the database with support.

Responsibilities

• Communicate with patients and families attending the service via face-to-face, phone or virtual platforms.
• Contribute to clinics including joint clinics with the consultant geneticist and obstetricians; manage a clinical caseload.
• Coordinate with Prenatal Genetics team and laboratories regionally and internationally.
• Present findings in research, audits and clinical practice to staff or the public; participate in publications.
• Prepare letters to patients and other HCPs co-signed with the clinical geneticist.
• Work on the genetics department database and prepare cases for publication under supervision.
• Coordinate complex genetic testing in pregnancy and ensure timely completion of testing.
• Collaborate with fetal medicine to organize interventions and scans for genetics patients.

Skills

Phlebotomy

Communication skills

MDT collaboration

Labs liaison

Tools

Excel

Job description

The National Maternity Hospital in Dublin seeks a Fellow in Perinatal Genetics and Genomics for a 1-year, full-time post based at NMH. The role reports to the Head of the Prenatal Clinical Genetics and Genomics.

Responsibilities include managing a clinical caseload, contributing to joint clinics with the consultant geneticist and obstetricians, coordinating genetic testing, and developing teaching materials and a department database.