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About the Role

Provide expert clinical leadership and subject matter expertise across key internal workstreams, influencing the wider genomics ecosystem at national and international levels. Play a pivotal role in maximizing impact for participants, patients, and the NHS through the advancement and implementation of genomic diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and expertise in designing and delivering services and programs.
• Support the Chief Medical Officer, Chief Scientific Officer, Director of External Affairs, and Director of Ethics in engagements with 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.
• Provide and coordinate clinical input for clinical safety and risk management systems, working closely with the Clinical Safety Officer.
• Represent Genomics England at national and international conferences, meetings, and working groups.
• Act as the clinical liaison with external bodies like BSGM, devolved nations, DHSC, Genomic Laboratory Hubs, and the Genomic Medicine Service Alliance network.
• 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.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in the diagnostic application of genomics within the NHS.
• Background in oncology, rare disease, or another clinical specialty where genomics plays a central role in diagnosis and clinical decision-making.
• Strong expertise in clinical safety.
• Proven track record in clinical leadership.
• Able to zoom into the detail of products and processes, and back out into strategic service planning.
• Successful candidates are subject to a Standard Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.
• Applicants must disclose any previous offences at point of application.

Skills

• Genomic diagnostics
• Clinical leadership
• Healthcare informatics
• Clinical safety

Location

• Canary Wharf

Work Type

• Fixed-term contract
• Secondment
• Blended working

Experience Level

• Principal

Education Level

• PhD genomics (or alternative genomics experience / qualifications)

Salary/Compensations

• £93,500

Benefits

• Generous Leave: 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, additional leave for long service, and the option to apply for up to 30 days of remote working abroad annually (approval required).
• Family-Friendly: Blended working arrangements, flexible working, enhanced maternity, paternity and shared parental leave benefits.
• Pension & Financial: Defined contribution pension (Genomics England double-matches up to 10%, however you can contribute more if you wish), Life Assurance (3x salary), an Electric Vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and a Give As You Earn scheme.
• Learning & Development: Individual learning budgets, support for training and certifications, and reimbursement for one annual professional subscription (approval required).
• Recognition & Rewards: Employee recognition programme and referral scheme.
• Health & Wellbeing: Subsidised gym membership, a free Headspace account, and access to an Employee Assistance Programme, eye tests, flu jabs.

About the Company

• Genomics England is a global leader in enabling genomic medicine and research, focused on creating a world where everyone benefits from genomic healthcare.
• Building on the 100,000 Genomes Project, we support the NHS’s world-first national whole genome sequencing service and run the growing National Genomic Research Library, alongside delivering numerous major genomics initiatives.
• By connecting research and clinical care at national scale, we enable immediate healthcare benefits and advances for the future.
• Our mission is to provide the evidence and digital systems so that by 2035 genomics could play a role in up to half of all healthcare interactions, whilst securing the UK’s position as the best place to discover, prove and benefit from genomic innovations.
• We are accelerating our impact and working with patients, doctors, scientists, government and industry to improve genomic testing, and help researchers access the health data and technology they need to make new medical discoveries and create more effective, targeted medicines for everybody.
• Behind the Healthcare and Research outcomes, Genomics England delivers through designing, developing and operating complex healthcare software systems.
• We're on the cusp of big changes with the real prospect of genomics becoming the fabric of everyday healthcare through the lifetime – from birth to old age.

Equal Opportunity

• 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’s policies of non-discrimination and equity and will be applied fairly to all people, regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, being pregnant or recently becoming a parent, race, religion or beliefs, sex or sexual orientation, length of service, whether full or part-time or employed under a permanent or a fixed-term contract or any other relevant factor.
• Genomics England does not tolerate any form of discrimination, harassment, victimisation or bullying at work.
• Our People policies outline our commitment to inclusivity.
• We aim to remove barriers in our recruitment processes and to be flexible with our interview processes.
• Should you require any adjustments that may help you to fully participate in the recruitment process, we encourage you to discuss this with us.