Job summary

Clinical Fellow, The Fertility Centre

An exciting opportunity has arisen within The Fertility Centre at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust for an experienced Clinical position would provide an opportunity for the successful candidate to develop advanced clinical competence in the management of infertility and assisted conception, supervised by Mr Dimitrios Nikolaou and the other fertility Consultants.

The clinical role involves day to day assessment and management of infertility, ultrasound scanning, assisted conception procedures and outpatient clinics. The duties of this post would include, among else, coordination of clinical, teaching and research meetings, maintaining ongoing audits and clinical guideline development. Previous experience and basic competency gynaecology ultrasound is desirable but not essential. The appointment is for 12 months subject to a satisfactory review at 6 months.

The position is available for full time, part-time and job-share will be considered. The role will be available to start from October 2024

Main duties of the job

To discuss the position or arrange and informal visit please contact Mr Dimitrios Nikolaou, Mr Norman-Taylor or Miss Maclaran (Service Director). Candidates are advised to read the attached job description, which includes the selection criteria and details on how to apply.

About us

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East. We have over 6,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children's, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We're one of the best preforming Trusts in the country. We're also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they're engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as 'Good' in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of 'Good'. We've also been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating for 'use of resources' by an NHS Improvement inspection.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children's unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors.

Job description

Job responsibilities

This post will be crucial for the day to day running of the unit, with intimate knowledge of the care of the patients. The work will be mainly clinical work in the fertility unit, but also sessions in the gynaecology fertility clinics.

The post holder will liaise very closely with the consultants and their NHS and private secretaries to facilitate and coordinate the journey of each patient.

There is no on-call component for this post the hours are Monday Friday 0900-1700, (can consider job share and part-time candidates for this role)

Duties will include :

• Being present and prepared each morning for the briefing sessions lead by the consultant for the day. This preparation includes knowing the patients for the planned procedures.
• Trans abdominal and transvaginal scanning
• Being present and prepared for the multidisciplinary team meetings. This includes preparing patients for presentation and discussion, knowing the details of their case and arranging for the appropriate professionals, (urologist, endocrinologist etc.) to be present or their contribution to be presented during the meeting. Also recording the findings in the medical records and writing the patients as necessary.
• Setting up and coordination of fertility treatments, especially IVF.
• Organising and managing the NHS funding of fertility treatment in collaboration with the patient liaison officer. This includes completing and submitting application forms for funding.
• Database update and clinical audit including the database for the Reproductive Ageing and fertility preservation programme. It is an essential part of the job to maintain databases according to the instructions of the supervisor, PR and service director..
• To review all patients of the Unit who have been admitted as inpatients on the gynaecology ward on a daily basis. The coordinator will see these patients at least once a day and keep the consultants up to date.
• Outpatient sessions in general infertility and IVF
• Participation in the Quality Management program within TFC is a fundamental part of the post holders duties.
• Performing some procedures in the treatment room, such as saline scans, endometrial scratch and intrauterine insemination. There will also be opportunities for training in egg collection and HyCoSy.
• Ensure the continued running of the service.
• Maintaining the spreadsheet with the staff allocation for clinics and treatment room (rota) and liaising with the appropriative administrators for booking clinics and theatres.

The post holder will be responsible to the consultants who form the clinical lead team, Mr Nikolaou Mr. Norman-Taylor and Miss Kate Maclaran and accountable to Mr Dimitrios post-holder will always be supervised, either directly or indirectly and will always report to the nominated Consultant for each session, wither outpatient or theatre.

A formal review of clinical progress will be carried out at regular intervals using the units competency tool.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

Desirable