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Job summary

Main area
Gynaecology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
309-UCLH-8278
Employer
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
UCLH, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing
Town
London
Salary
£58,133 - £65,261 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
12/08/2026 23:59

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Clinical Nurse Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 7

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Job overview

Are you passionate about supporting individuals and couples through their reproductive medicine journey? Join our expert multidisciplinary team and play a key role in delivering compassionate, high-quality care within reproductive healthcare. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will manage your own caseload, run nurse-led clinics, and provide specialist guidance on fertility assessment, treatment pathways, and reproductive health options.
You will be integral to the coordination and delivery of patient-centred care, working closely with consultants, allied health professionals and primary care teams to ensure the best possible clinical outcomes and patient experience.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine clinical expertise with service development and innovation - helping to shape reproductive medicine services, contribute to research and audit, and support education for both patients and healthcare professionals.

Why work with us?
•    Be part of a progressive and supportive reproductive medicine service
•    Work alongside leading consultants and multidisciplinary specialists
•    Opportunities for research, audit, and service development
•    Make a real difference in the lives of patients every day

For more information about the role, please contact: 
Monica Mbao – Lead Nurse Reproductive Medicine [email protected]

Main duties of the job


As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Reproductive Medicine, working closely with Consultant Specialists, you will lead patient management for individuals and couples undergoing fertility care. Your role combines counselling on treatment options, including assisted conception and fertility preservation, with coordination of complex care pathways and multidisciplinary collaboration. You will manage a patient caseload, ensure timely investigations and treatment cycles, while supporting patients throughout their fertility journey.
Strong communication, organisational skills, and clinical expertise are essential, alongside the ability to work across teams and provide compassionate, patient-centred care.

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
•    University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
•    National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
•    Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
•    University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
•    Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
•    University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
•    The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
•    University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description. 
Come and be a part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff* 
* UCLH top trust to work at in England - In the most recent NHS staff survey UCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the third year in a row. 
UCLH recognises the benefits of flexible working for staff – To find out more, visit: Flexible working.  
To discover more about what makes UCLH a great place to work, visit: Why Choose UCLH?

 

Person specification

Knowledge & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse Part 1, 2 or relevant section of the register
  • BSc or working towards completion of a degree
  • Post registration qualification in Fertility or fertility ultrasound
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership course
  • Mentorship course
  • Advance Communications Skills Training

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience working within Fertility/ Gynaecology/ Women’s Health setting
  • • Experience of working autonomously at an advanced level. Delivering effective patient focused care.

Skills & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Proven listening / counselling skills with the ability to manage complex situation and appropriately deliver sensitive and difficult outcomes.
  • Ability to support and reassure patients/carers in distress in the clinical setting and over the telephone.
  • Support colleagues in stressful situations
  • Ability to cover the service within the team in a flexible positive approach so that leave will not adversely affect patient care and discharge of patients.
  • Ability to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of clinical supervision

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Georgina Bull
Job title
Matron Gynaecology and Breast
Email address
[email protected]