Job responsibilities
Role: Registered Practitioner in Fertility Care
Location: Central Services Team. Based hybrid.
Reports to: Clinical Nurse and Midwifery Lead for Donation and Surrogacy
As a Registered Practitioner, you will work with the Clinical Nurse and Midwifery Lead for
Donation and Surrogacy and group donation lead to provide clinical care to donation services,
surrogacy support team and donor support team
As a Nurse/ Midwife you will make appropriate assessments and provide advice, information,
support and clinical care by supporting the prospective egg and sperm donors, egg, embryo and
sperm recipients, shared motherhood and intended parents and surrogate arrangements.
The main objective is to maximise efficiency and deliver a high-quality world class donation
service for the Group.
As a member of the Care Family, you will carry out your roles in a way that supports and delivers
our shared values. You are caring, patient focused and committed to do your best.
Role accountabilities and duties:
Specific Duties/ Responsibilities
Manage donor nurse-led consultations following the Group donor pathway and the donation
polices.
Consult altruistic egg donors, requesting and interpreting investigations/scans, developing
treatment plans and suggest prescribing doses for donors in accordance with evidence-based
practice and Care protocols within scope of expertise. Ensuring the delivery of high-quality
patient experience and patient care.
Provide clinical support to the surrogacy support team to ensure a high-quality service for
intended parents and surrogate hosts.
Manage IP and surrogate nurse consultations ensuring the correct pathway is followed.
Support members of the nursing/midwifery team to ensure practice is in evidenced based and in
line with polices and regulatory requirements.
Ensure you deliver of high-quality patient experience and patient care.
Contribute to the induction, training and development of new and existing members to ensure
that a high standard of care for patients is being delivered. Teach, monitor, assess and mentor
team members when required. Work with the Donation services manager and the Group Donation Lead to actively implement continuous improvement initiatives to improve business area performance Where requested, support with meetings and travel to clinics within the Group to support, network and motivate, ensuring adherence to policy/SOP. Assist with statistics on key performance targets and help drive continuous success. Raise the profile of the Donation Service internally and externally, contributing to research activities and submission of abstracts, posters and papers. Deliver effective quality management including participation in audits and implementation of corrective and preventative actions as required. Assist with the management, investigation and implementation of actions following incidents and complaints, where requested. Promote excellent customer service and listen to patient feedback and respond to concerns and suggestions, where requested. Work collaboratively with other external stakeholders, where required. Contribute to the development of patient information, SOPs, and policies. Actively feedback issues to the applicable focus group, always driving improvement. Assist with HFEA inspections when required. Participate in marketing activities, events and meetings. Flexibility of working hours to meet the needs of the service. Meeting the diverse needs of our patients and having an inclusive approach and embracing diversity Advice and information provision Ensure that you provide advice and information to donors, recipients and surrogacy patients, and give patients time and support in understanding their treatment plan and answering patient queries throughout their treatment journey. This will be dealing with questions face to face and over the telephone/ video call and resolving any queries or problems. Provide implications to donors and recipients so that they are aware of the legal implication of donation / using donated gametes, including legal parenthood where applicable and offering them appropriate support and implications counselling. Support patients with the consent to treatment process, ensuring patients are appropriately informed and aware of the consent requirements and implications. Ensure the consent process is complete in accordance with consent policies and standard operating procedures.
Provide the most up-to-date information and support with medication queries during the treatment preparation process. Interpret and sign off blood results, escalating where necessary and advise patients on results, implications and actions the next steps of treatment following blood test results and ultrasound scans results. Provide emotional support to patients with empathy and understanding. Signpost patients to Cares counselling support services and any relevant external support services. Systems and digital processes Input data, find information on the clinical patient database and follow the system pathways to ensure accurate record keeping and efficient and safe processes. Support with developments and new systems to maximise results and efficiency. Suggest new ideas and improvements. Use Microsoft Outlook to communicate effectively with colleagues. Teamwork and collaboration Contribute to effective team working with donation services, donor support team, donor bank and wider multi-disciplinary team. Work collaboratively and build trusted relationships with team colleagues and the wider multi- disciplinary team. Communicate in an engaging way to build relationships and drive change. Participate in team meetings and clinic meetings, participate in development projects, forums or research and development projects. Be supportive of new ideas and their implementation. Attend team meetings and ensure effective communication within the wider multi-disciplinary team, when requested. Openly sharing knowledge with colleagues and being a supportive mentor to others. Treat everyone fairly and equally and encourage and embrace diversity within the team. Governance and safety Together, with the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring that all processes are followed in accordance with the standard operating procedures. Maintain accurate and timely records, and audit the team to ensure they are implementing this. Ensure you are up to date and compliant with the HFEA Code of Conduct.
Assist with supply, dispensing and the safe keeping of drugs in accordance with Cares policies, RCN Medicines Management 2020 and the NMC Code. Maintain all standards of professionalism, performed to the Nursing and Midwifery Code. Ensure you are up to date with the regulatory and governance framework by following Cares induction and learning pathways and that the team have evidence of competency using the applicable competency assessment process. Assist with Datix incidents and complaints. Act with integrity, being open and honest so that we learn from each other and achieve better outcomes. Ensure compliance with Health and Safety policies and reporting requirements. Ensure you complete mandatory training and actively participate in the learning pathways provided by the Company. Follow Infection Control and Prevention policies and requirements. Follow Adult Safeguarding policy and requirements. Confidentiality and data Maintain a high level of confidentiality at all times in accordance with the HFEA Code of Practice and Cares standard operating procedures. To handle patient data responsibility by completing training on data protection and following Company requirements on data protection and information governance. Adhere to the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 and Data Protection Act 2018. Maintain knowledge and develop professionally Be up to date with clinical protocols, patient information and standard operating procedures by actively participating in professional update activities provided by the Company. Actively participate in the Personal Development Review process and the competency assessment processes. Challenge yourself to develop further. Take ownership of your learning and skill development and engage with the learning opportunities available. Take ownership of your revalidation and engage with the relevant team members to achieve this within the timescale required. Job revision
The key accountabilities, responsibilities and duties of the role are inclusive but not limited to the detail included in this job description. Role requirements continually evolve. It is the practice of this Care Fertility Group Limited to periodically examine an employee's job descriptions and to update it to ensure that that it represents the role that is being performed. The process of role review is jointly conducted by each manager in consultation with the employee. We will strive to reach agreement to implement reasonable changes, but if agreement is not possible management reserves the right to mandate changes to the job description commensurate with the employees level in the organisation following consultation