Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Genetics
- Grade
- NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 337-MS-1738-OK
- 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
Employer heading
Consultant Clinical Genetics interest in rare Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes
NHS Medical & Dental: Consultant
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.
We run major acute services at:
- 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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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
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- 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.
Clinical service delivery
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.
Academic
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
Essential criteria
- • Entry on GMS Specialist Register
Desirable criteria
- • MD, PhD, or MSc relevant to Clinical Genetics
- • BSc in Genetics of Biological Sciences
Registration
Essential criteria
- • On GMC registered Medical Practitioner GMC specialist registration or within 6 months of CCT
Knowledge and Expertise
Essential criteria
- • 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
Desirable criteria
- • NHS experience within the last 3 years
Teaching
Essential criteria
- • Experience of teaching and training undergraduates, postgraduates and junior medical staff
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of ongoing interest and achievement in research
Management and Audit
Essential criteria
- • 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
Desirable criteria
- • 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
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge of research methodology
- • Publications in peer review journals
- • Presentations to learned societies
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of contribution to research projects and grant applications
- • Evidence of interest in (translational) rare disease research
Language
Essential criteria
- • Are able to speak and write English to the appropriate standard necessary to fulfil the job requirements
Personal skills
Essential criteria
- • 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
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Fleur van Dijk
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02088693166
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