Consultant in Clinical Genetics
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 Registrars 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 departments clinical audit programme, participate in the trust appraisal process, undertake annual job planning and undertake other clinical professional development activities to support revalidation