The Homerton Fertility Centre is a small welcoming team of fertility professionals that offers comprehensive assisted conception services, and performs around 900 fresh IVF/ICSI cycles and 600 FERs annually.

The service has recently experienced a number of issues, prompting us to collaborate more with regulators to maintain high quality patient care. Considerable work has been undertaken to review the patient pathway, make sure competencies and standard operating procedures are in place and that staff feel empowered and are able to provide the best care for patients. The team has been open and learned from other organisations who deliver exemplar practice.

This has resulted in the news that Homerton Fertility Centre can resume treating patients from 8th August 2024, from a suspension of service in April 2024.

This advertisement is to recruit a fixed-term, Band 6 nurse, to assist with implementing new pathways and add to the continued redevelopment of the Homerton Fertility Service.

What can we offer the successful candidates?

This redesign of the Homerton service offers the candidates a unique opportunity to influence and input to ongoing service improvement. While challenges remain our team has stayed united in improving the care we provide to our patients. Our Executive and Divisional teams are incredibly supportive of the improvements already made and those currently in progress.

Main duties of the job

Key duties / requirements

• Working closely with patients throughout their journey to coordinate treatment cycles and ensure compliance standards are met and maintained.
• You will need excellent communication skills, ability to manage own workload able to work effectively as part of a team.
• Uses clinical expertise and specialist knowledge base to work in a collaborative way to extend the role of nursing to meet the needs of individuals undergoing fertility treatment.
• Act as a role model to develop and encourage harmonious relationships and professional rapport within the department and with other disciplines, departments and external agencies.
• Working in conjunction with the Lead Nurse and to ensure that nursing practice within the unit is of a high standard, evidence based and clinically effective.
• To act as a team leader, providing mentorship and training with junior staff for them to achieve their professional development goals.

About us

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing and flourishing organisation serving the population of Hackney, East London, The City and beyond.

We are extremely proud of the fact that Homerton Hospital has recently attained the highest possible rating of Outstanding from the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

Our integrated Trust provides comprehensive hospital and community health services for its local population and a range of specialist services for a wider group of patients. In addition, the Trust manages services out of St Leonard's Hospital and the Mary Seacole Nursing Home.

Homerton aims to ensure equality and value diversity, and we are committed to inclusion for all of our staff. This is reflected in our policies, procedures and People Plan. All of our staff are expected to embody our Trust values at all times.

We are also committed, through our Fair Recruitment Standards, to ensuring all applicants are treated fairly.

Homerton has a proud tradition of supporting and developing its staff, including its well regarded and valued nursing community, and all staff are able to take advantage of a great range of benefits.

Homerton is proud to have been included on the HSJ & Nursing Times Best Places to Work list.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s on this page

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse/Midwife
• Post registration course in Women's Health/ Fertility Nursing or relevant experience

Desirable

• Ultrasound scanning
• Recognized teaching certificate ENB 998

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working within an Fertility Unit setting

Desirable

• Gynaecology and Ultrasound scanning experience

Skills/Abilities

Essential

• Ability to communicate effectively with staff and patients
• Computer literate, awareness of the EPR and IDEAS system

Desirable

• Perform & support Fertility Procedures IUI's

Trust Values

Essential

• Demonstrating understanding of Trust Values

Employer details

Employer name

Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Homerton Healthcare

Homerton Row

London

E9 6SR

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

293-SWNS-0379