Principal Clinician - Cancer Diagnostics and Research (1 Year FTC)

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 are 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.
• 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.

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 possesses a strong national professional network, likely from having held national roles,

Due to the nature of the role and the skillset required, we would consider this role on a secondee basis and are happy to be flexible in the way this is undertaken.

We are aware of an ongoing issue with our application portal which is leading to some applications not being received. We are investigating this, but in the meantime, if you do not receive an email confirming your application was successful please email [email protected] with your CV and any cover note you wish to add, to ensure you are considered for the role.

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, 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.

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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. Such behaviour is contrary to our virtues, undermines our mission and core values and diminishes the dignity, respect and integrity of all parties. 

Genomics England operates a blended working model as we know our people appreciate the flexibility. We expect most people to come into the office 2 times each month as a minimum. However, this will vary according to role and will be agreed with your team leader. There is no expectation that staff will return to the office full time unless they want to, however, some of our roles require you to be on site full time e.g., lab teams, reception team. 

Our teams and squads have, and will continue to, reflect on what works best for them to work together successfully and have the freedom to design working patterns to suit, beyond the minimum. Our office locations are Canary Wharf, Cambridge and Leeds.

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.