Genomic Associate - Oxford, United Kingdom - Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Oxford Centre for Genomic Medicine

We are seeking a caring, compassionate individual, with excellent communication skills in Urdu and English. Good organisational skills are important with a flexible approach to provide excellent patient care.

The post holder will need to manage their own workload on a day-to-day basis and prioritise their work to meet deadlines with mínimal supervision.


Please note that this is not a Genetic Counsellor post, and does not lead to registration with the Genetic Counselling Registration Board/Academy of Healthcare Scientists/HCPC.

Please see GCRB, AGNC and NSHCS websites for details on a career in Genetic Counselling in the UK.


Main duties include:


Facilitate the smooth running of the general family history gathering team and provide additional clinical and clinically oriented administrative support as required for Clinical Genomics service provision within OxGeM.


Help to deliver general and prenatal genetic pathways within Clinical Genetics for patients and families of diverse ethnic groups where close relative partnerships/marriages are more common.


Support clinic appointments, including arranging blood samples, and liaising closely with patients, clinicians and the laboratories to ensure smooth running of patient pathways.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country.

It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research.


The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.


Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family.

Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Please see attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification for more information. Please note this is not a genetic counsellor post.

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