# Fertility Nurse

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

## Canonical URLs

- **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/fertility-nurse/9b1f61ab-c2b4-4bd3-bdea-f3e0c460a627
- **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/fertility-nurse/9b1f61ab-c2b4-4bd3-bdea-f3e0c460a627.md

## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Nurse (adult and children)
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £47,951 - £56,863 pro rata p.a. inc.
- **Contract type:** Fixed term: 9 months (Until 31st March 2027)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, Flexible working, Compressed hours, 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Saturday (required to hold on-call bleep and mobile))
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-27T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24T08:32:51.365Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Homerton_Healthcare_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Fertility/Fertility-v8117829
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8117829?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.homerton.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

The Homerton Fertility Centre is a small welcoming team of fertility professionals that  offers comprehensive assisted conception services, including IVF, ICSI and FER cycles.

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.

### Detailed job description and main 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

### Experience

**Essential**

- Experience of working within an Fertility Unit setting

**Desirable**

- Gynaecology and Ultrasound scanning experience

### Trust Values

**Essential**

- Demonstrating understanding of Trust Values

### 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

### 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

## Documents

- [trust values (pdf, 652.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=938)
- [guidance for applicants (pdf, 124.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=937)
- [job description & person specification (pdf, 312.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10472450)

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