EDS Genetic Counsellor

Job information EDS Genetic Counsellor from the Company Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust, this latest EDS Genetic Counsellor job vacancy is located in the city Sheffield S. This latest job opening is open to job seekers who have the latest education / graduate . Job Vacancies in this Other field have been opened and published up to the specified time.

Job Description : Communication with patients and families. Elicit patients concerns and expectations. Elicit and accurately document patients detailed family history. Work with the patient and family to define their own agenda. Interpret medical, family, and psychological history. Communicate genetic information to patients and their relatives. Receive and provide highly complex and possibly conflicting information. Identify and respond to emerging issues for the patient or family. Communicate and apply new scientific information for the benefit of the family over an open-ended time frame. Ensure patients and families have all the information available to provide. informed consent for genetic tests and/or photography. Interpret and communicate normal and abnormal genetic test results to patients and health care professionals. Participate in co-counselling sessions with medical and genetic counselling. colleagues when appropriate. Expertly communicate highly sensitive and potentially psychological damaging information, which may cause high levels of distress e.g: Giving a couple an abnormal prenatal result. Giving a Vascular EDS result Communicate with patients who are bereaved and provide support e.g. around termination of pregnancy. Use non-directive and other counselling skills to counsel patients about various testing options to facilitate decision making. Identify and manage conflict within families created by sensitive genetic information. Manage conflict when patients demands are incompatible with professional responsibilities and resources. Work with patients who have great difficulty accepting a clinical diagnosis or a genetic test result. Use appropriate advanced counselling skills to communicate sensitively in the presence of language, cultural and/or medical issues e.g. In the presence of a complex ethical, cultural or psychiatric issue When there is a need for an interpreter or when patients have learning difficulties or psychiatric illness. Communicate up to date appropriate information on risk reducing factors. (i.e high dose folic acid) or risk influencing factors (i.e HRT, contraceptive pill). Prepare letters to patients summarising discussions and giving results. Develop and utilise patient information leaflets Communication with other professionals and support agencies to facilitate comprehensive care, management and support. Liaise with laboratory colleagues to order and communicate about genetic tests and to discuss complex test results that are difficult to interpret. Liaise with relevant obstetric colleagues in arranging a termination of pregnancy following an abnormal prenatal result. Liaise regionally nationally and internationally with other relevant departments; i.e histology, surgery, screening, fetal medicine, midwifery, psychiatry, cardiology to obtain and provide information with appropriate patient consent. Liaise with colleagues in other genetic centres to obtain and provide information with appropriate patient consent. Prepare letters to referring clinicians as agreed with medical colleagues. Liaise and defer to medical colleagues about issues that have diagnostic or clinical complexity. Discuss cases with ethical complexity with colleagues where appropriate. Discuss and liaise over all clinical issues relating to the EDS service with other members of the team. Liaise with clinical and administrative colleagues both in Sheffield and London to ensure the EDS service in both centres run to similar standards. Liaise with, and act as a contact for, other individuals involved in a patients care, including schools. Provision of a comprehensive patient/client care package Confirm diagnostic information. Calculate risks of patients and families being affected by various genetic disorders, the risk of recurrence and the carrier risks. Assess patients to determine where there is a need for referral to specialist therapeutic counselling, psychiatric assessment or screening and make appropriate referrals. Phlebotomy. Provide support for the EDS Consultant undertaking skin biopsies. Ensure that all necessary biopsy equipment is available for the clinic. Ensure that all written information i.e. consent forms & patient information leaflets are available for use when skin biopsies are to be undertaken. Order genetic and biochemical tests as clinically appropriate after discussion with medical and laboratory colleagues. Provide information to, and advise on, how identified at-risk relatives can obtain genetic counselling and/or screening. Arrange for families to have blood samples taken outside of the Trust and be transported to the appropriate laboratory. Inclusive Recruitment & Selection We offer encouragement and active support to applicants with additional needs, including those from ethnic minorities, with disabilities and members of the LGBTQ+ community. If you wish to adjust any aspect of the recruitment process or wish to find out more about our recruitment & selection processes, please get in touch with our Recruitment Manager: We are currently reviewing our recruitment & selection process and are looking to make our job adverts more inclusive. This will support the long-term aim of Sheffield Childrens being a champion of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. If you have any ideas in how we can make our recruitment & selection process more inclusive, please get in touch with Catherine Gilbert Trust Values The Trust is committed to providing great quality patient care and keep children, young people and families at the heart of what we do by following our CARE values: Compassion leading by kindness and showing empathy, understanding and respect Accountability striving to do the right thing and owning responsibility Respect value differences, tackling inequality and fostering a culture of inclusion Excellence delivering a high-quality standard of care