Job Description / Duties

Your impact:
- Be part of a dynamic team that is evolving the way fertility care is imagined and delivered
- Help normalize and destigmatize the role of mental and emotional support during the fertility journey
- Deliver a personalized, inclusive and elevated care experience in a collaborative and a multidisciplinary environment
- Find new opportunities for innovations in patient care through curiosity, continuous learning, and critical thinking
- Use exceptional verbal and written communication skills to ensure patients feel heard and supported throughout their fertility journeys

Your responsibilities:
- Provide emotional and psychological support to patients throughout their fertility journey
- Communicate with patients via virtual and in-person appointments, phone, email and EMR portal
- Educate and counsel patients on topics such as infertility and the stress of fertility treatment, managing uncertainty, coping with loss, resilience and persistence with treatment and much more
- Educate and counsel patients considering the use of donor sperm, donor eggs or gestational surrogacy
- Work with the clinical care team to coordinate donor and gestational carrier cycles
- Counsel potential known sperm or egg donors or gestational carriers
- Build an educational library and resource guides for patients focussed around emotional support and mental health
- Participate in content creation for our website and social media channels
- Communicate clearly and in a timely fashion to other members of the clinical care team

Qualifications / Required Skills

- A master’s or doctoral degree from an accredited university in the field of psychology, social work, psychiatric nursing, counseling, or marriage and family therapy or equivalent
- A member in good standing of the College of Psychologists of Ontario, the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers, the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario or equivalent
- Experience, willingness and comfort with providing care to LGBT2SQ individuals and couples
- CFAS, CFAS Counsellor SIG (preferred)
- Computer / EMR / telemedicine experience an asset

Additional Information

Your schedule:
- Part Time
- Monday-Friday, 9:00AM-5:00PM (hours may vary)

Twig Fertility offers competitive compensation and full benefits.

At Twig, we are committed to creating an environment where all of our employees feel included and valued. We believe that a diverse and inclusive organization enables us to make reproductive and fertility care better for everyone. We encourage applications from racialized people, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, people with intersectional identities, as well as any others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.

Contact Information

Dr. R. Zwingerman
jobs@twigfertility.com

Employer Profile

We’re Twig - a new fertility clinic opening in Toronto this fall.

Our modern space brings a new definition to what healthcare can look like in Canada. Together with our in-house IVF lab and pharmacy, we offer the full range of fertility services all in one beautiful place.

We are on a mission to elevate today’s fertility care and deliver a better experience for one and all - both patients and employees alike.

As an organization, we are continuously challenging the status quo and bringing a more compassionate vision for the way care should be. We believe best-in-class care requires outstanding medicine and manner. That’s why we offer the latest fertility advancements and expertise, paired with a personalized, whole-person approach – all supported by a tech-enabled platform that makes accessing care easier than ever.

As we prepare to open, we are looking to grow our care team. If you are looking to be part of a dynamic and diverse group and are passionate about evolving patient-centered care in fertility, let’s chat.