About this role
Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic, organised and highly motivated Clinical Genomics Pathway Coordinator to join our team on a 2-year fixed-term contract.
The post holder will be responsible for overseeing the Trust's Clinical Pathology Genomics Centre (CPGC) co-located across the Chelsea and Sutton sites, supporting the delivery of timely and effective clinical genomics pathways for both Trust and external users.
This is an exciting opportunity for an individual with excellent organisational, communication and data management skills who is interested in working at the interface between clinical services, genomics, pathology and the wider NHS. You will play a key role in ensuring that clinical genomics requests are appropriately managed, actioned and submitted to the North Thames Genomics Laboratory Hub
Main duties of the job
The post holder will oversee the Trust Clinical Pathway Genomics Coordinator (CPGC) service across the Chelsea and Sutton sites, ensuring genomic test requests from Trust and external users are processed accurately and submitted promptly to the Genomic Laboratory Hub (GLH) to support appropriate diagnostic testing.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills are essential, as the role involves working closely with multidisciplinary teams, consultant pathologists, colleagues within the North Thames Genomic Laboratory Hub, and partners across NHS cancer pathways and networks to support the delivery and development of clinical genomics services in line with NHS England requirements.
Responsibilities include managing the administrative function of the CPGC service, improving workflows and procedures, optimising data collection, and overseeing day-to-day operations to ensure activity targets and patient pathway requirements are met. The post holder will act as the first point of contact for clinical genomics pathway queries.
The role requires analysis and presentation of data in a clear and accessible format, supporting service improvement, IT developments, and administrative activities across the technical and medical teams. Additional duties include line management of the Histopathology/Clinical Genomics Liaison Assistant and maintaining documentation to support UKAS accreditation compliance.
About us
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust is a world-leading cancer centre. Our role is to offer our patients the best cancer care available anywhere in the world, and to continue to make a global contribution to finding better ways of diagnosing and treating cancer. We employ over 4,500 staff in a diverse range of careers including nursing, medical, science, radiography, pharmacy, occupational therapy, finance and administrative services. We have two hospitals - one in Chelsea, London, and one in Sutton, Surrey - as well as a Medical Daycare Unit in Kingston Hospital.
At The Royal Marsden, we deal with cancer every day, so we understand how valuable life is. When people entrust their lives to us, they have the right to demand the very best. That's why the pursuit of excellence lies at the heart of everything we do.
At the heart of the hospital is our dedicated team. We offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment, a wide range of staff benefits, learning and development opportunities and clear career pathways. There are opportunities to work flexibly across a range of areas and specialities and we welcome flexible working requests from point of hire to support employees work life balance. We are looking for employees who aspire to excellence, share our values and can play a crucial role in our on-going achievements.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information please refer to the job description and personal specification
To provide a professional and courteous service to all users, ensuring the highest quality service levels. To demonstrate a commitment to the delivery of high quality service to patients and other service users. To be the single point of contact for all clinical genomics queries and coordinate the flow of material and information to ensure referral for genomics testing in a timely and efficient manner. To provide information, assistance and advice to the management team and wider team as required. To develop and implement the department procedure ensuring correct assignment of material to consultant pathologists, liaising internally and externally, with the multi-professional team to ensure continuity of care and treatment for patients between departments and sites. To liaise with commercial development leads and private care to implement NHS, PP and overseas workstreams.
Play a leading role in developing and implementing the CPGC for the Trust To have significant knowledge of the NHS cancer diagnostic pathways, awareness of GLH in the diagnostic process and NHS networks/ Trusts, liaising with multiple users in multiple organisations to ensure timely transport of clinical genomics requests
Liaising with Head of Commercial Development Clinical Genomics and Private Patient team to ensure funding for clinical genomics samples. To implement cost improvement programmes as directed by the laboratory management and/or department clinical lead Assist the laboratory management in generation and monitoring of invoices for users as per Trust procedure
Person Specification
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Excellent written & verbal communication skills
- Tailor communication to different audiences and purposes, using appropriate language avoiding bias and confusion.
- Communicate accurate information and explain uncertainty in your findings.
- Communicate positive and negative information to stakeholders and facilitate discussions within multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to deal efficiently and effectively with all levels and disciplines, both within and outside the organisation.
- Ability to plan and prioritise work according to demand.
- Ability to use initiative.
- Ability to organise and maintain filing systems.
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Proficiency in administration functions
- Able to manage pathological specimens following health & safety training.
- Use information to analyze common problems and improve workflow.
- Transform data into meaningful information using various techniques.
- Ensure accurate data collection and submission as required by GLH and Trust
Desirable
- Express complex ideas and insights confidently in writing and conversation
- Appropriate skills to supervise other A&C staff
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level or equivalent in years' experience (2 years)
- Post graduate qualification in service improvement or demonstrable knowledge
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in quality management
Experience
Essential
- Proven keyboard skills.
- Experience of word processing packages: Microsoft Word
- Demonstrable experience of medical terminology
- Awareness of clinical genomic testing requirements, and National Genomic test directory
Desirable
- Previous NHS experience
- Experience of Quality Management & audit
- Expertise in database management
- Experience in training staff and implementing new methods.
- Awareness of NHS and GLH networks
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer details
Employer name
The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Address
The Royal Marsden - Chelsea
Chelsea
SW3 6JZ
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/working-royal-marsden (Opens in a new tab)