Job Description / Duties

Mount Sinai Fertility is currently looking for Registered Nurses with recent experience in fertility nursing to support the Mount Sinai Fertility Clinic in Downtown Toronto (250 Dundas St. West) and the North York site (2 Sheppard Ave. East - currently closed due to COVID-19).

This is an exciting opportunity to join a nationally and internationally recognized team in Canada’s largest obstetrical and gynaecological program. Come practice in the most advanced infrastructure in Canada!

Various positions available – Regular Part-Time, Temporary Full-Time, and Temporary Part-Time.

At Mount Sinai Fertility, we are committed to helping our patients become pregnant and create families while maintaining their overall health and well-being. You will be responsible for the delivery of comprehensive assessment, patient education and counselling, and care coordination for patients and families seeking care for fertility issues as well as participation in program quality improvement, education and research activities.

•Responsible for comprehensive nursing assessment of patients and their support partners

•Coordination of care for patients and their partners receiving treatment in the department’s various programs (e.g. IVF, Insemination, Fertility Preservation, etc.)

•Communicating and collaborating daily with other team members such as physicians, residents, fellows, embryologists, andrologists, secretaries, sonographers, service assistants, pharmacy technicians, phlebotomists and social workers

•Provision of patient education in one-on-one and virtual settings (Zoom, OTN etc.)

•Assisting and/or performing various procedures in the clinic and procedure room setting such as ultrasound, IUI, egg retrieval, embryo transfer, sonohysterogram and hysteroscopy

•Providing emotional support and counselling to patients and their support partners

•Supporting patients through various ethical decisions that may be required as they explore various treatment options

•Providing emotional support and grief counselling to those who were unsuccessful in achieving pregnancy

•Participating in education of various health professional students and colleagues

•Participating in professional development, quality improvement and research activities within the program

•Counselling patients daily regarding successful versus failed outcomes

Qualifications / Required Skills

•Current certificate of registration with the College of Nurses of Ontario
•BScN either completed or in progress (preferred)
•Current ACLS (preferred)
•Recent experience in in fertility nursing
•Recent experience in perinatal and/or women's health nursing
•Recent experience in IV/venipuncture and/or procedure room/OR scrubbing (preferred)
•Demonstrated ability to apply nursing knowledge of infertility and the hormones involved in reproduction, ovulation induction, controlled ovarian stimulation, and third party reproduction
•Proven ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team environment
•Well-developed interpersonal skills
•Confidence in communicating with patients and support people about sensitive issues (i.e. grief and loss, pregnancy termination, reproductive system functioning, relationship concerns)
•Confidence in working with diverse patients and families including members of LGBTQI2S community
•Experience with electronic medical records an asset
•Experience with telemedicine/ virtual settings an asset
•Experience providing patient care as part of clinical research trials / studies an asset
•Demonstrated satisfactory work performance and attendance history

Additional Information

Hours (subject to change): Seven days a week schedule with rotating shifts.

Salary: As per ONA Collective Agreement

Contact Information

Applications can be made online at https://sinaihealthsystem-mountsinai.mua.hrdepartment.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/4826

Posting reference #4826

All applications must be submitted by no later than 4:00 p.m. on the posting deadline date.

Employer Profile

In 2015, Bridgepoint Active Healthcare, Circle of Care, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute and Mount Sinai Hospital, came together to form Sinai Health - and leverage our collective expertise and create a system that better responds to the changing needs of our patients, families and clients. Sinai Health has a bold vision and strategy for the future: To create Canada's leading integrated health system pushing the boundaries to realize the best health and care from healthy beginnings to healthy aging for people with complex health needs.

A key enabler of this vision is Sinai Health’s People Plan – which provides an explicit commitment to our people about our commitment to creating a workplace culture and environment that is safe, caring, equitable, compassionate and accountable in order to ultimately provide optimal care to patients and their family caregivers.