Clinical Genetics Society

Closing Date: 22/05/2025

Location: Leeds Teaching Hospitals

https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9298-CON-904 This is a Consultant Clinical Geneticist post providing general and specialist Clinical Genetics and Genomics Services. The general activity will provide consultant cover for Leeds and regional paediatric and adult general genetics clinics. The specialist activity may cover areas such as prenatal clinics, cancer clinics, Genetic Cardiac (Inherited Cardiac Conditions) clinic and/or other areas of the post holders interest. The Leeds Clinical Genomics Service (LCGS; previously known as the Yorkshire Regional Genetics Service) is based at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and has an office base at Chapel Allerton Hospital. LCGS serves a diverse population of 3.9 million people across West and North Yorkshire, East Riding and the Humber. LCGS provides comprehensive clinical diagnostic services to patients and clinical genomics support to clinicians from other medical specialties across the region. In addition to general paediatric and adult genetics clinics, the service runs specialist genetics clinics in Adult and Paediatric Cancer Genetics, Prenatal Genetics, Pregnancy Loss, Inherited Cardiac Conditions, Huntington Disease and adult neurogenetics, Skeletal Dysplasias, NF1, Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), and Craniofacial genetics. The service runs a number of multidisciplinary clinics with other specialties including Fetal Medicine, Cardiology, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Oncology, Ophthalmology, and Neurosurgery. LCGS is a regional service and provides clinics on the Leeds Teaching Hospitals sites and in the Hull and East Riding region. Consultants contribute to a wide range of specialist MDT meetings, and provide specialist clinical genomics advice to clinicians from other specialties via these meetings, as well as by telephone, email and letters. Consultants work with and are supported by a large team of registrars (8 specialty trainees in Clinical Genetics and additional Clinical Fellows), Genetic Counsellors (including 2 consultant Genetic Counsellors and 3 Principal Genetic Counsellors), 3 Genomic Associates and several administrative teams.

For further information please contact:

Email: natalie.mellard@nhs.net
Website: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9298-CON-904