• To provide family history assessment to patients with potentially increased risk of cancer within the innovative Virtual Family History Clinic service, hosted by the South West Thames Centre for Genomics.
• To provide screening advice to patients based on family history assessment and other relevant inputs for cancer risk assessment. To develop innovative ways of improving the patient pathway.
• As key member of the project team delivering the service, the postholder will assist with the delivery of the project objectives and support evaluation, audit and service improvement to benefit patient care and improve outcomes.
This is to be achieved by:
· Undertaking competent and evidence-based family history assessment of referred patients in line with local procedures
· Combining family history and additional information to give screening advice according to local and national protocols
· Maintaining, updating and reviewing the clinical pathways and data collection to ensure patients receive appropriate screening and management advice
· Working with clinicians and administrators to ensure an effective and efficient patient pathway is achieved using digital innovation: Family History Questionnaire Service (FHQS)
· Understanding how and when to refer into inherited cancer genetic services, or for active management
· To act as a significant educational resource, both to the wider health care system and trainees in mainstream breast and endoscopy and surgical units
· Participating in audit and innovation in patient pathways
· Supporting the delivery of the clinical aspects of the Virtual Family History Clinic service, assisting with review and evaluation.
• The South West Thames Regional Genomics Centre provides an integrated Clinical Genetics service for individuals or families who have or are at risk of having a genetic disorder.
• We deliver this service at St George's Hospital, a leading London teaching hospital and one of the largest healthcare units in the UK, as well as in several local district hospitals across the region.
• We provide the highest quality service at regional specialist level for a population of approximately 4 million in the South West Thames area, Surrey and West Sussex.
• The postholder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the trust vision of ‘Outstanding Care, Every Time’.
• We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust: being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflect these.
• St George’s University Hospitals NHS Trustis committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment.
• The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role.
• The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.
This advert closes on Thursday 13 Mar 2025
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