Senior Clinical Fellow - the Fertility Centre

at  Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

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, i.e. Mr Nikolaou Mr. Norman-Taylor and Miss Kate Maclaran and accountable to Mr Dimitrios Nikolaou.The 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

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