Healthcare Assistant required to work for a leading private clinic based in Central London.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Fully understand the clinic’s clinical protocols, standard operating procedures (SOPs), patient information and consent forms
- Deal with telephone and e-mail enquiries in a professional manner and ensure that all information given is up to date and accurate
- To contemporaneously ensure all offered treatment, advice, treatment cycles and outcomes are recorded in line with current HFEA guidelines and requirements and SOPs
- Possess a working knowledge of patient drug regimes and treatment plans
- Collect specimens, label and despatch to the outside laboratory (including phlebotomy) as per clinic SOPs.
- Support patients during egg recovery and embryo replacement procedures and other treatment
- Scrub and circulate in the operating theatre
- Perform venepuncture following appropriate training and assessment
- Perform venepuncture, interpret and give blood results when necessary
- Inform patients about implications of treatment and provide information and support throughout treatment cycle
- Prepare theatre for egg retrieval, embryo transfer, insertion if IUCD, cervical dilatation, surgical sperm retrieval and gynaecological procedures
- Assist in theatre as necessary
- Recover patients following IV sedation
- Perform pregnancy test and inform patient of results
Requirements:
- HCA with a minimum of 12 months experience in fertility/gynae
- Phlebotomy
