Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented laboratory manager to join our leadership team to manage our Fertility laboratory within the Reproductive Medicine Unit at University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on a fixed term basis, providing maternity leave cover.
You will act as the laboratory director, leading a team of andrologists and work closely with the clinical lead for Reproductive medicine and the HFEA Person Responsible to ensure a safe and compliant service.
We are looking for a dynamic leader, who is passionate about quality, patient-centred care and our people. You will be collaborative and able to lead the team and oversee operational delivery and drive improvement of clinical services, including ensuring that our service continues to deliver for patients in line with regulatory requirements.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work for the Reproductive Medicine Unit (RMU) which provides care for couples with subfertility and women with gynaecological endocrine conditions. RMU offers a wide range of fertility services including investigation of infertile couples, laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery for fertility, ovulation induction, intra-uterine insemination and fertility preservation. Reproductive endocrinology clinics include polycystic ovarian syndrome, menopause, recurrent miscarriage, premature ovarian insufficiency, Turner syndrome, adolescent endocrinology, and late effects of cancer and other chronic diseases. RMU is licensed by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to carry out intrauterine insemination (IUI) and gamete storage.
The post holder will act as Laboratory Director and assist the Clinical Lead for Reproductive Medicine in providing an effective and comprehensive Reproductive Medicine service to UCL Hospitals and other external referring NHS and non-NHS organisations, maintaining service quality in accordance with Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority regulations and to ISO 15189 equivalent standards set nationally by to the United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
About us
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.
At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Our Reproductive Medicine Laboratory provides a comprehensive laboratory service for men undergoing fertility assessment, fertility treatment and sperm storage. The laboratory houses the largest sperm bank of its kind in the UK, providing a specialist fertility preservation service for oncology patients prior to potentially-sterilising treatments, and for assessing fertility and fertility options following these treatments.
We provide excellent opportunities and offer a wide range of staff benefits that can be enjoyed either at work or elsewhere. We actively encourage future learning and career progression, and support our staff to become the absolute best they can be, in a diverse and challenging environment that embraces patient-centred care.
Job responsibilities
- Leadership
- Operational Management
- Staff Management
- Financial Management
Key aspects of this role include:
- Practice as the Lead Reproductive Scientist in Andrology, working with the Clinical Lead for Reproductive Medicine in policy and service development and implementation.
- Responsible for the day to day running and supervision of the Andrology service as line manager to all clinical laboratory staff and administrative staff directly linked to running of the laboratory
- Responsible for financial management of the service in conjunction with the General Manager for Gynaecology and Breast
- Work in tandem with the Clinical Lead for Reproductive Medicine and HFEA Person Responsible to ensure a safe and compliant service.
- Deputise for the HFEA Person Responsible as and if appropriate.
- Be responsible for the quality management system for the Reproductive Medicine Unit in line with regulatory requirements.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role, skills and person specification.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Post graduate qualification, ideally in management or equivalent senior level experience
Experience
- Minimum of 3 years relevant management experience, with a least two years within the NHS
- Experience of leading and supervising a team
Skills
- Excellent communication skills, including negotiation, with the proven ability to liaise effectively within a multidisciplinary team based environment
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of multidisciplinary issues working
- A clear understanding of the components of Clinical Governance and HFEA regulation and how these contribute to an integrated and quality driven service
- Ability to meet deadlines and complete tasks within agreed time scales
- A sound understanding of the issues affecting operational staff and a can do attitude to solving such issues
Job description
Job responsibilities
Our Reproductive Medicine Laboratory provides a comprehensive laboratory service for men undergoing fertility assessment, fertility treatment and sperm storage. The laboratory houses the largest sperm bank of its kind in the UK, providing a specialist fertility preservation service for oncology patients prior to potentially-sterilising treatments, and for assessing fertility and fertility options following these treatments.
We provide excellent opportunities and offer a wide range of staff benefits that can be enjoyed either at work or elsewhere. We actively encourage future learning and career progression, and support our staff to become the absolute best they can be, in a diverse and challenging environment that embraces patient-centred care.
Job responsibilities
- Leadership
- Operational Management
- Staff Management
- Financial Management
Key aspects of this role include:
- Practice as the Lead Reproductive Scientist in Andrology, working with the Clinical Lead for Reproductive Medicine in policy and service development and implementation.
- Responsible for the day to day running and supervision of the Andrology service as line manager to all clinical laboratory staff and administrative staff directly linked to running of the laboratory
- Responsible for financial management of the service in conjunction with the General Manager for Gynaecology and Breast
- Work in tandem with the Clinical Lead for Reproductive Medicine and HFEA Person Responsible to ensure a safe and compliant service.
- Deputise for the HFEA Person Responsible as and if appropriate.
- Be responsible for the quality management system for the Reproductive Medicine Unit in line with regulatory requirements.
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the role, skills and person specification.
Qualifications
- Degree or equivalent professional qualification
- Post graduate qualification, ideally in management or equivalent senior level experience
Experience
- Minimum of 3 years relevant management experience, with a least two years within the NHS
- Experience of leading and supervising a team
Skills
- Excellent communication skills, including negotiation, with the proven ability to liaise effectively within a multidisciplinary team based environment
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of multidisciplinary issues working
- A clear understanding of the components of Clinical Governance and HFEA regulation and how these contribute to an integrated and quality driven service
- Ability to meet deadlines and complete tasks within agreed time scales
- A sound understanding of the issues affecting operational staff and a can do attitude to solving such issues
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- First Degree or assessed equivalent level of knowledge and expertise.
- Masters Degree or equivalent level of knowledge and expertise in the speciality of Andrology
- Association of Biomedical Andrologist certification in Andrology (or equivalent formal training)
- Demonstration of Continuing Professional Development at level of participation stipulated by the Royal College of Pathologists.
Desirable
- Relevant PhD
- Membership and registration with relevant professional bodies
Experience
Essential
- To have extensive experience as a clinical scientist of which some should have been at advanced practitioner level and extensive experience in Clinical Andrology.
- To have developed an expertise in one or more specialised analytical or clinical areas to a point of acting at an expert level within the Trust.
- To have attained a good record of achievement in research, development and audit activities, through presentations at national or international conferences and publication in peer reviewed journals
Desirable
- To have attained status as a national or international expert or adviser.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- To have a thorough knowledge of human Andrology.
- To have a sound basic knowledge in other related areas such as Urology and Oncology
- To have expert knowledge of Andrology and its application in Clinical Science.
- Able to perform risk assessment on a variety of laboratory situations.
- Fully conversant with COSHH regulations and their application to laboratories.
Scientific
Essential
- Well-developed analytical (technical) skills.
- Well-developed deductive and intuitive abilities.
- Able to lead on service development and delivery at a departmental level on general service or more specific aspects.
- Able to initiate, direct and co-ordinate R & D activities.
- Able to lead and co-ordinate Audit activities and authorise corrective action.
- Able to lead on service development beyond the department.
Clinical
Essential
- Able to advise senior medical staff, nursing staff and other health professionals on investigation and interpretation of semen and testicular tissue analyses and in complex situations also utilising data from other specialities.
- Able to recognise patterns of abnormality and relate them to clinical situations and provide appropriate clinical advice.
- Able to analyse highly complex information from out with as well as within the service and use to evaluate differential diagnoses.
- Able to take personal responsibility for own decisions and advice and for those of more junior staff.
Management and Communication
Essential
- Able to use and manipulate laboratory computer systems and standard software packages.
- Able to provide leadership within the department, across the Trust and beyond within the context of service planning and development or quality.
- Able to develop and take responsibility for professional guidelines and policies impacting across the Trust and Health Community.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Able to teach students, laboratory staff, nursing and medical staff.
- Able to prepare and present complex scientific and clinical information.
- Good coaching and mentoring skills.
- Able to work and communicate information, including news of impairment, with terminally ill, upset, distressed patients and their carers, including children and adolescents and those with sensory physical or learning disabilities.
- Able to lead networks at a regional or national level
Physical Skills
Essential
- Good hand eye co-ordination for fine manipulation of instrumentation
- Requires mental alertness and prolonged concentration for medical procedures, manual sample analyses and data analysis of complex and conflicting information despite being subject to frequent interruptions.
- Able to ensure safety while conducting manual handling of liquid nitrogen storage facility
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to maintain self-control in difficult and challenging situations and to take control of situation when more junior staff are in difficulty.
- Able to provide effective backing to junior colleagues and provide counselling for performance or attitude problems.
- Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others and the demands of leadership
- Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Ability to cope with workload pressure
- Empathic towards and able to engage effectively with the client group.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential
- First Degree or assessed equivalent level of knowledge and expertise.
- Masters Degree or equivalent level of knowledge and expertise in the speciality of Andrology
- Association of Biomedical Andrologist certification in Andrology (or equivalent formal training)
- Demonstration of Continuing Professional Development at level of participation stipulated by the Royal College of Pathologists.
Desirable
- Relevant PhD
- Membership and registration with relevant professional bodies
Experience
Essential
- To have extensive experience as a clinical scientist of which some should have been at advanced practitioner level and extensive experience in Clinical Andrology.
- To have developed an expertise in one or more specialised analytical or clinical areas to a point of acting at an expert level within the Trust.
- To have attained a good record of achievement in research, development and audit activities, through presentations at national or international conferences and publication in peer reviewed journals
Desirable
- To have attained status as a national or international expert or adviser.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Essential
- To have a thorough knowledge of human Andrology.
- To have a sound basic knowledge in other related areas such as Urology and Oncology
- To have expert knowledge of Andrology and its application in Clinical Science.
- Able to perform risk assessment on a variety of laboratory situations.
- Fully conversant with COSHH regulations and their application to laboratories.
Scientific
Essential
- Well-developed analytical (technical) skills.
- Well-developed deductive and intuitive abilities.
- Able to lead on service development and delivery at a departmental level on general service or more specific aspects.
- Able to initiate, direct and co-ordinate R & D activities.
- Able to lead and co-ordinate Audit activities and authorise corrective action.
- Able to lead on service development beyond the department.
Clinical
Essential
- Able to advise senior medical staff, nursing staff and other health professionals on investigation and interpretation of semen and testicular tissue analyses and in complex situations also utilising data from other specialities.
- Able to recognise patterns of abnormality and relate them to clinical situations and provide appropriate clinical advice.
- Able to analyse highly complex information from out with as well as within the service and use to evaluate differential diagnoses.
- Able to take personal responsibility for own decisions and advice and for those of more junior staff.
Management and Communication
Essential
- Able to use and manipulate laboratory computer systems and standard software packages.
- Able to provide leadership within the department, across the Trust and beyond within the context of service planning and development or quality.
- Able to develop and take responsibility for professional guidelines and policies impacting across the Trust and Health Community.
- Good oral and written communication skills.
- Able to teach students, laboratory staff, nursing and medical staff.
- Able to prepare and present complex scientific and clinical information.
- Good coaching and mentoring skills.
- Able to work and communicate information, including news of impairment, with terminally ill, upset, distressed patients and their carers, including children and adolescents and those with sensory physical or learning disabilities.
- Able to lead networks at a regional or national level
Physical Skills
Essential
- Good hand eye co-ordination for fine manipulation of instrumentation
- Requires mental alertness and prolonged concentration for medical procedures, manual sample analyses and data analysis of complex and conflicting information despite being subject to frequent interruptions.
- Able to ensure safety while conducting manual handling of liquid nitrogen storage facility
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Able to maintain self-control in difficult and challenging situations and to take control of situation when more junior staff are in difficulty.
- Able to provide effective backing to junior colleagues and provide counselling for performance or attitude problems.
- Emotional robustness to frequently work with the intense distress of others and the demands of leadership
- Experience of maintaining working relationships and a high degree of professionalism in the face of highly emotive and distressing problems, verbal abuse, and the threat of physical abuse.
Desirable
- Ability to cope with workload pressure
- Empathic towards and able to engage effectively with the client group.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
