Principal Clinician - Cancer Diagnostics and Research (1 Year FTC)
- Full-time
- Salary from: £93,500
- Department: Clinical
- Office: London
Genomics England partners with the NHS to provide whole genome sequencing diagnostics. We also equip researchers to find the causes of disease and develop new treatments – with patients and participants at the heart of it all.
Our mission is to continue refining, scaling, and evolving our ability to enable others to deliver genomic healthcare and conduct genomic research.
As the Principal Clinician - Cancer Diagnostics and Research (on a 1 year FTC) , you will provide subject matter expertise within key workstreams internally and influence the wider ecosystem at both national and international levels to maximise our impact on participants and patient benefits.
The primary purpose of this role is to work closely with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Chief Scientific Officer (CSO), and Genomics England's wider cancer team to develop, engage, and implement our cancer strategy across healthcare and research. This involves collaborating with NHS networks to ensure Genomics England is responsive to NHS needs and effectively communicates its vision for cancer genomics within the NHS cancer professional community.
Your key responsibilities will include:
- Provide clinical leadership and expertise in designing and delivering our services and programs.
- Support the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Scientific Officer, Director of External Affairs, and Director of Ethics in engagements with various advisory committees and the Participants Panel.
- Offer clinical support to the service management team, including handling complex conversations with research participants and managing inquiries, complaints, and clinical incidents.
- Contribute clinical input for clinical safety and risk management systems.
- Represent Genomics England at national and international conferences, meetings, and working groups.
- Support the Chief Medical Officer and GMS Service Owner in collaborations between Genomics England and NHS England/NHS colleagues.
- Define and advocate for priorities relevant to patients and clinicians with the Executive Leadership Team and colleagues across Genomics England.
- Develop strong relationships with senior stakeholders to explain, drive, and advocate for Genomics England initiatives and priorities.
- Provide clinical leadership in evolving research strategy and coordination, and develop processes to support research stakeholders.
For this, we are seeking a proactive and dynamic clinician with hands-on experience delivering front-line NHS cancer services, such as an oncologist or pathologist, to join our team. You will also ideally possess a strong national professional network, likely from having held national roles.
Medical degree; CCT in Genetics or equivalent.
Salary from: £93,500
Being an integral part of such a meaningful mission is extremely rewarding in itself, but in order to support our people, we’re continually improving our benefits package. We pride ourselves on investing in our people and supporting them to achieve their career goals, as well as offering a benefits package including:
- 30 days’ holiday (plus bank holidays), with additional days for long service awards.
- A generous pension scheme of up to 15% combined contribution.
- Life Assurance (3 x salary).
- Individual learning budgets for every colleague, a Blinkist account, and a wide variety of courses on our portal.
- A wide variety of wellness benefits including Gympass, a Headspace account, and free weekly Yoga classes.
- Enhanced maternity & paternity benefits.
- Blended working arrangements.
Talk to our Talent Team and find out how a career with Genomics England will benefit you.
Genomics England is actively committed to providing and supporting an inclusive environment that promotes equity, diversity, and inclusion best practice both within our community and in any other area where we have influence. We are proud of our diverse community where everyone can come to work and feel welcomed and treated with respect regardless of any disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, or social background.
Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values, and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties.
As part of our recruitment process, all successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. We therefore require applicants to disclose any previous offences at point of application, as some unspent convictions may mean we are unable to proceed with your application due to the nature of our work in healthcare.
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