Shape the future of personalised medicine
Join us to solve some of the most challenging issues facing healthcare and science.
Make an impact
Every decision, every line of code and every meeting matters. Our work changes patients' lives, shapes the future of genomic research and enables the treatments of tomorrow.
We're passionate about what we do because our efforts make a difference.
Hear about working at Genomics England from our staff
Work where healthcare, technology, science, and policy meet
To embrace an ever-changing industry, we work in multi-disciplinary teams who collaboratively design and build the services we provide to NHS colleagues and the research and biotech community.
We’re agile, fast-moving, and innovative, and we’re evolving to reflect the rich diversity of the communities we serve.
Our products and services are complex and need to fit into the lives of our users. To do this better, we use design and social science research to ask the right questions and develop the right outcomes.
Accelerate healthtech
As we move into creating better decision support systems, stronger bioinformatics pipelines, new clinician and patient interfaces, and savvy environments for our data, we're naturally experimenting with how we apply machine learning, HPC and other technologies in product and service development.
Ultimately, we're creating new healthcare ecosystems that will tailor diagnosis and treatment to the individual.
Have your voice heard
We encourage a high challenge and high support culture, and each year do a survey to collect and canvas everyone's views. From this, we do regular pulse surveys to check in and continue to focus on what's most important to our people.
Our behaviours
We have four key behaviours that represent what we would like Genomics England to feel like and the culture we want to encourage, in order for us to achieve our mission. These behaviours help us all work well together, deliver on our outcomes, celebrate our successes and share feedback with each other.
We pull together in service of our mission
We are motivated by a strong personal sense of purpose and a collective drive for patient impact. We are unified and unwavering in our focus to deliver a world where everyone can benefit from genomic healthcare.
We continuously learn and improve
We are mission-driven and need to evolve to do that mission justice. This means becoming an organisation that can continually learn and adapt. The industry we are in and the nature of what we do demands change. To stay impactful and relevant we must continually improve together.
We deliver high quality outcomes
The work we do has direct impact on and consequences for patients and their families. We care about safe, secure, timely delivery which is at the heart of a quality-oriented approach. Quality isn't just about compliance with regulatory standards. It is also about consistently upholding high standards, documenting our work, increasing speed and impact and reducing re-work, waste and error.
We are trustworthy, responsible stewards
We are accountable to the public – including NHS, participants, the government and taxpayers– who have entrusted us to deliver secure, safe and ethical innovation for the country. We ensure that genomic science and technology serve the interests of patients and society.
Working at Genomics England can be pretty hectic, but this means that there is real license to shape what you do and how you do it. I’ve always been encouraged to take ownership of a piece of work which has allowed me to learn new skills and develop new talents that I might not have got if my role was a bit more structured.
Dr Simon Thompson
Data Engineer
When I first joined Genomics England we were a project trying to achieve something that had not been done before. Now as we mature as a long-term organisation it is a really exciting time to be part of Genomics England, as we underpin our products and services with solid engineering practice and organise ourselves around cross functional teams to best support these products and services
For people coming into this field, I’d say that you need to plan to iterate – to explore and be open to different approaches and technologies but plan how to detect that an approach is not working and move on quickly.
Nathan Hicks
Software Engineering Manager
The best part of this job is talking to the participants who are just wonderful – thoughtful, practical, insightful, clever and hilarious to be with. I do many talks and debates, and always love the questions, especially from kids. And I like bringing together the many different strands of my life in order to help deliver the vision of genomics.
Vivienne Parry
Head of Engagement
When the opportunity came up to work for Genomics England, I didn’t look back; it is comforting to know that as a company we are all doing something really important to bring benefits to patients now, and are providing the answers to long outstanding medical questions. It brings it home when I get the opportunity to speak to participants who really want members of their family or themselves to get the best medical treatment, and just get better. So, after all these years I finally took the ‘logical next step’ – I’m once again helping people in such an important way.
Neil Samuels
Service Manager