Consultant in Clinical Genetics | London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 10 October 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 09 November 2025 |
| Location: | Harrow, HA1 3UJ |
| Company: | London North West Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7491063/337-MS-1856-OK |
Summary
The appointee will be required to provide Clinical Genetics service for both children and adults in NWTRGS. For a rare diseases’ appointee, this will probably include prenatal work. A cancer specialist would also be required to attend a number of 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. There may need to be a degree of flexibility on the working days in the week.
*JD pending RC approval*
The appointee will be able to develop and provide sub-specialist genetics clinics if they have a sub-speciality interest and also 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 welcome.
Ø Provide a comprehensive clinical service for the evaluation, diagnosis and management of individuals and their families referred to the NWTRGS service, and to be accountable for their patients’ care on their journey through the Service. Clinical activity will probably involve exposure to all aspects of Clinical Genetics.Some travel to deliver peripheral clinics will be required.
Ø Arrange appropriate investigations and manage the outcome of these in a timely manner. Arrange referral for prenatal and pre-implantation genetic testing where indicated.
Ø Participate in the consultant on-call Rota (pro rata), triage referrals, and manage urgent referrals, including R14s and prenatals. This may involve urgent clinical queries, seeing urgent referrals, undertaking ward reviews, and providing support to Genetic Counselling colleagues and registrars for urgent (e.g. prenatal) cases and clinical queries as required.
Ø Support service development, which may include development of specialist clinics, mainstreaming, creation of guidelines/pathways for care, and consideration of additional future roles such as management and training roles.
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.
For further details about the role and responsibilities for the this post, please see attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 9 Nov 2025