EG- Consultant Clinical Geneticist

Overview

NHS Scotland is committed to encouraging equality and diversity among our workforce and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for our workforce to be truly representative and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. NHS Scotland welcomes applications from all sections of society.

The North of Scotland Clinical Genetics Team seeks a new Consultant colleague (1.0 WTE) following the recent retirement of a long-serving colleague. The post holder will work with the existing Clinical Genetics Multidisciplinary Team to provide professionally driven, high quality Genetic care to patients and families with inherited disorders across the North of Scotland.

The service covers five Health Board Regions - Grampian, Highland, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles, which includes two cities and a vast geographic area, with total population of around 906,000.

The Clinical Genetics Department comprises a Clinical Team and the Genomics Laboratory, based at the Foresterhill Campus in Aberdeen. The Laboratory is run as part of the NHS Scotland Strategic Network for Genomic Medicine. The Department has links with Children’s Services in Aberdeen and Inverness, including Community Child Health and Learning Disability Services, with Maternity Services in Aberdeen and Inverness and Medical and Surgical Services for Adults and Children.

Grampian Secondary and Tertiary Services are based on the Foresterhill Campus, meaning that the Genetic Clinic is only a short walk from the Laboratory, Adult, Children’s and Maternity Hospitals, as well as the University of Aberdeen Institutes of Medical Sciences and Applied Health Sciences, and teaching and learning Suttie Centre. The department also has a Genetic Counsellor led Hub in Inverness, where monthly clinics are delivered by the team.

The post holder will be expected to contribute to service improvement, audit, teaching, training, CPD and to support ongoing department research.

Full registration with a licence to practise must be in place prior to starting in post. For more information visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below)..org

Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry on the GMC Specialist Register from date of interview. CESR (Certificate of Eligibility for Specialist Registration) or Portfolio Pathway route doctors are only eligible to apply for a substantive Consultant post once CESR or Portfolio Pathway specialist registration is awarded.

Those with an International Recognised Specialist Qualification approved by GMC should have a confirmed entry on the GMC Specialist Register. Applications from doctors with appropriate specialist training and experience who are not listed on the GMC Specialist Register can be considered for a Locum Consultant post (up to 12 months) if no substantive Consultant appointment is made. Whilst in locum employment, an application to obtain a CESR or Portfolio Pathway Specialist Registration can be made to the GMC.

Informal enquiries are welcomed by Professor Zosia Miedzybrodzka, Service Clinical Director, Dr Blyth and Dr Ross, Consultants in Clinical Genetics (tel .

Apply for this post by visiting  and search for the above . Closing date 19 February 2026.

As from 1/4/26, the Agenda for Change full-time working week will be reducing from 37 to 36 hours per week. Part time hours will be reduced pro-rata. However, there will be a corresponding increase in the hourly rate so that pay will not be affected.

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