Clinical Embryologist: Sponsorship Available

  • Full Time
  • United Kingdom
  • 49,387 to 56,515 £ / Year

Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

The Hewitt Fertility Centre is seeking to appoint an embryologist on a permanent contract to join our highly skilled and dedicated team of 35 scientists. We are dedicated to providing the very best in patient care and offer a full range of laboratory therapeutic and diagnostic treatments. (Including IMSI, PGT, cryopreservation and donation programmes).

The Hewitt Fertility Centre offers as standard the latest time-lapse technologies for all patients in our state-of-the-art laboratories. Successful applicants should be personable with excellent communication skills, experienced in all routine embryological procedures and take part in a weekend and on-call rota.

Suitable applicants must have experience of performing clinical workload within an Embryology laboratory setting and be familiar with the HFEA Code of Practice. HCPC registration, previous experience of biopsy and training junior staff is an advantage, but not a necessity.

Please note, successful applicants will need to provide cover at both Liverpool and Knutsford sites on occasion.

Main duties of the job

To perform all laboratory procedures associated with the diagnostic and therapeutic treatment services provided by the Hewitt Fertility Centres including semen analysis, sperm preparation (including donor, and surgically retrieved testicular and epididymal sperm), oocyte and embryo handling, gamete (ejaculated and surgically retrieved sperm) and embryo cryopreservation, clinical intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), time-lapse technologies and other micromanipulation techniques. To select embryos best suited for embryo transfer and cryopreservation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • Bachelor of Science Degree in life sciences (or an equivalent qualification) from an EU University; alternative degrees or other qualifications may be acceptable
  • Certificate Clinical Embryology awarded by the Association of Reproductive and Clinical Scientists (ARCS) and the Institute of Biology or a graduate of the Modernising Scientific Careers STP training programme.

Desirable

  • Relevant higher degree related to the field

Professional requirements

Essential

  • Professional registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Desirable

  • Enrolled in a recognised programme for continuing professional education

Previous experience

Essential

  • Experience within the field of assisted conception and reproductive medicine

Desirable

  • Micromanipulation experience
  • Biopsy experience
  • NHS experience
  • Research experience

Team Work

Essential

  • Able to work within a multidisciplinary team

Desirable

  • Previous experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team

Flexibility & Adaptability

Essential

  • To have a flexible approach to work (including out of normal hours)
  • Able to adapt to the changing needs of the team/service

Initiative

Essential

  • Able to work without direct supervision
  • Able to work under own initiative and make clinical decisions

Desirable

  • Able to assess situations and suggest possible solutions in order to enhance the service

Commitment/Confidentiality

Essential

  • Understanding of the importance of patient confidentiality
  • Able to work with a high level of commitment to deliver the highest possible standard of service at all times

Organisational Skills

Essential

  • Able to make efficient use of time and to complete workload and tasks
  • Able to prioritise tasks

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 2 November 2026

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