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Lead with purpose. Inspire excellence. Help shape the future of fertility care.
At Care Fertility, we are a community of experts united by one belief: family is for everyone.
As the Medical Director at our Sheffield clinic, youll be at the heart of this mission. Youll lead a dedicated team of professionals who deliver world-class, patient-centred care - combining medical excellence with empathy and innovation.
Main duties of the job
As a senior leader and Fertility Specialist, youll play a pivotal role in both patient care and clinic development. Youll:
Deliver exceptional consultations and perform all routine IVF procedures.
Plan, manage, and oversee personalised treatment journeys for each patient.
Communicate with patients with warmth and professionalism - whether thats face-to-face, by phone, video, or email.
Provide clinical leadership and guidance to nursing and support teams, including emergency advice when required.
Shape the way we work by contributing to policy and service improvements, ensuring we always deliver the very best care.
Represent Care Fertility as an ambassador - engaging in educational events, media opportunities and professional networks.
About us
Were Care Fertility, were the largest private provider of IVF and fertility treatment in the UK.
We draw on the knowledge of our wider team of over 600 dedicated doctors, embryologists, nurses and support teams who all work together to ensure our patients get the very best fertility treatment.
At Care we care, for our patients and for our people. We believe in helping you to reach your full potential.
In a company where hard work and great results are recognised, you can look forward to a supportive culture of collaboration where we value each other.
If you join Care, you can look forward to a challenging and rewarding role, with great results bringing great opportunity for recognition.
Job responsibilities
Specific Duties/ Responsibilities:
Be ahighly visible clinical leader ensuring staff receive timely and regularcommunications and are involved and engaged in the delivery of clinicalservices.
Lead and develop the clinical team, managing theclinicians to maximise team and individual clinician performance
. Demonstrate leadership and motivation withinthe Clinic and promote team working across all disciplines to ensure thecontinuous development of high quality, innovative care
. To work collaboratively and oversee thethird-party Consultants who satellite into the clinic or provide anaesthesiaservices.
Ensure that Care and its mission, programs,products and services are consistently presented in a strong, positive image torelevant stakeholders by conducting all external relationships effectively andto the benefit of Care.
Maintainand develop organisational culture, values and reputation in its markets andwith all staff, customers, suppliers, partners and regulatory/official bodies.
Support amulti-skilled, multi-disciplined and diverse workforce to work as a cohesiveoperational group delivering first class treatments to patients.
Attend and contribute to the Clinics operatingmanagement meetings and Clinic meetings. Work collaboratively with otherMedical Directors and the Group Medical Director to ensure that Care andnational objectives are met.
Attend andcontribute to the regular organisational meetings with other Medical Directors,Laboratory Managers, governance groups and speciality groups on an alternatemeeting basis with the Clinical Director.
Report to the Group Medical Director UK andExecutive Management team on all aspects of patient care, clinical performanceand medical workforce issues.
Workclosely with and support the Clinic Director to support a robust clinicalgovernance and quality framework.
Support the Clinic Director with commercialdecisions and changes as and when required Driving Excellent Clinical Quality:
Work collaboratively with the Clinic Director,Group Medical Director and the Care CG & Q team to deliver the agreedgovernance and quality systems.
Ensure that appropriate audit tools areimplemented and findings and concerns are acted upon where appropriate.
Work with the local team to ensure the annualclinical audit programmes is undertaken and reported to the corporate teamaccording to timescale.
Implement within the Clinic all Care policies,protocols and pathways as agreed at corporate governance and specialitymeetings to ensure Care best practice is adhered to.
Leadership and Development of Medical Workforce:Specifically, the Medical Director will be responsible for:
Providing a service as the primary liaison to themedical staff at the Clinic.
Overseeing the recruitment of good quality,competent clinical staff and ensuring that there are robust systems in placefor their competency assessment and induction. Undertake probationaryassessments of all new medical appointees to the Clinic.
Ensuring there is Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment for all medical staff. They will support staff to provide thenecessary documentation for appraisal and revalidation which is compliant withthe guidelines of the GMC and the relevant Royal College.
Support all medical staff employed within theClinic to undertake enhanced appraisals consistent with GMC guidance annuallyto enable re-licensing and re-certification.
Supporting systems of peer review and reflectivepractice locally for medical staff. Providing appropriate support to medicalstaff within the Clinic, including the identification of opportunities forsupervision and training.
Undertaking effective Care performance reviews ofall Clinic medical staff on an annual basis to ensure best use of their skills.
Ensuring that all annual leave/ CPD leave formedical staff is managed effectively and complies with Care policies.
Ensuring that weekly medical rotas are in placeand provide adequate cover of service for the Clinic. For the management ofmedical disciplinary issues in liaison with Responsible Officer, Deputy GroupMedical Director (North) and People Director.
Clinical Duties: The post holder will be expectedto undertake clinical duties as a member of the medical team of the Clinic. Theallocation of time to undertake clinical duties will be agreed by the ClinicDirector and the Group Medical Director.
The post holder will:
Consult and assess patients and plan andundertake patient treatments.
Undertake the assessment of emergency admissions,arranging appropriate onward referral where appropriate.
Provide clinical support to the nursing staff,who give emergency telephone advice, when on call. Correspond/liaise withgeneral practitioners/referrers/other specialists regarding patients.
Correspond and communicate with patientsprofessionally (e.g. by phone, email, video-conferencing) Ensure the consentingof all patients is undertaken prior to treatment.
Work to ensure there is effective communicationwith other team members. Attend clinical and team meetings as appropriate.
Work in theatre, carrying out egg collection,embryo transfers and other fertility-related procedures. Carry out thesupervision and training of other staff from all disciplines.
Complete clinical notes and documentation(including financial documentation) in accordance with Care protocols andpolicies.
Participate in audit, clinical risk assessmentand clinical governance in accordance with Care protocols and policies.
Participate and contribute in the regular reviewand updating of clinical procedures, protocols and patient documentation. Beinvolved in promotion and marketing of the Clinic and its services.
Liaise with the marketing team to agree themarketing plan for the Clinic and to work with the media on advertisingcampaigns, news stories, etc.
Present at Patient Information Evenings and othereducational events for patients. Providing clinical cover at other Care clinicsas and when needed.
General Requirements:
The post holder will be required Maintain a GMClicence to practise and maintain registration on the GMC Specialist Register,complying with Continuing Professional Development requirements andrevalidation with the GMC.
Actively participate in Cares performancemanagement processes and competency assessment processes, in addition to annualappraisal in line with GMC requirements as outlined above.
Comply with the GMC Good Medical Practiceguidance and Care clinical protocols and guidelines.
Comply with the Human Fertilisation andEmbryology Authoritys Code of Practice, the Care Standards Act 2008, the CareStandards Regulations 2010, General Data Protection Regulation 2016 and theData Protection Act 2018, with special reference to patient confidentiality.
Comply with the Health and Safety policies withparticular reference to procedures to be followed in the event of a fire and toreport all accidents and untoward incidents to the Health and Safety officer.
Undertake mandatory training as and whenrequired. Comply with all Care policies and procedures
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MBBS, or equivalent medical qualification
* Full GMC registration and licence to practise
* MRCOG, or equivalent
* ATSMs in Subfertility and Assisted Conception, or equivalent
* Competent in scanning (formal qualification highly desirable)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Depending on experienceAs per career framework
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