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Are you an experienced Fertility or Gynaecology Nurse ? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and exceptional nurse with a strong background in Gynaecology or Fertility to join our fantastic multidisciplinary team in providing care to our patients at our Chelsea and West Middlesex hospital sites. You will work in collaboration with professionals within the hospital setting to give appropriate specialist advice; support and education in relation to all aspects of fertility.

You will provide clinical care, promote excellence in nursing practice and be able to work across organisational boundaries.

These include the varied duties providing clinical care to fertility patients and supporting the service and fellow colleagues.

• Co-ordinate and support other members of the caring team who may be responsible for implementing specific aspects of nursing care.
• Investigate and report accidents, incidents and losses and provide initial support for the member of staff or patient involved, in line with Trust policy.
• Take on extra duties/responsibilities as delegated and agreed by the department/ ward manager or senior staff nurse, within their capability / limitations.
• Maintain professional behaviour at all times and promote a positive image of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust at all times, in line with Trust values.
• Contribute to a high quality safe working environment in which patients receive a high standard of care.

Please note this post is based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital site.

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 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 nearly 7,000 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 performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says 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 significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.

Clinical

• Provide care for couples undergoing fertility treatments, including carrying out nurse consultations, telephone calls, consultation and reviews of scans.
• Assist and set up in the variety of fertility treatments, including egg collections, endometrial scratches and saline scans.
• Carry out intra uterine insemination procedure once trained to do so without supervision and assist other colleagues.
• Admit, recover and discharge patients for procedures within fertility setting.
• Counsel and undertake phlebotomy for any patients needing tests carried out.
• Have an understanding of the Human Fertilisation Embryology Authority (HFEA) and the code of practice within the fertility setting.
• Enter data into the IVF database system “Foxpro” in order to send treatment outcomes to our governing body the HFEA
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individualised patient care through appropriate frameworks, including safe effective arrangements for discharge, underpinned by Trust values.
• Assist members of the team in the co-ordination of the clinical activities.
• Use clinical standards to participate in the process of monitoring the quality of care delivered. Act to ensure that nursing practice is of the highest standard, in line with Trust and CQC standards.
• Supply and/or administer medication safely in line with Trust medicines policy.

Please see attached job description and person specification to this advert for further details.