Regional Lab Manager
London, Greater London, South East, England
£90000 - £110000 per annum
Expiry date:10 Mar 2026
Start date:10 Dec 2025
Clinic
Clinic Manager
Fertility
Neonatal
Regional Laboratory Manager – Dual Site – Up to £110,000 – Full Time – Prestigious Fertility Clinic
About Us:
We are happy to be working with one of the UK’s Top Fertility Clinics. They are looking for brilliant minds and passionate hearts to help them shape the future of fertility. They are one of the largest fertility service providers in Europe operating their IVF clinics and egg/sperm freezing banks in the UK, Poland and Netherlands. They have embarked on the mission to use technology to provide patients with a memorable best-in-class fertility journey that leads to the best outcome – starting a family!
Job Summary:
They are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Regional Lab Manager to join their dynamic team. The ideal candidate will Lead two laboratories, ensuring the delivery of highest standards of patient care, manage personnel, resources, regulatory compliance, and quality. Approximate split: 80% management, 20% clinical. Member of clinic management teams, contributing to strategy and group-wide projects
Regional Laboratory Manager Key Responsibilities:
Clinical Skills
Quality Management
Resource Management
Induction, Training and Performance Management of Staff
Regulatory Compliance
Recommendations:
Heath Recruit Network have a fantastic Recommendation scheme that we offer to all candidates. We offer a £200 voucher for a variety of businesses for each successful recommendation/referral.
Contact Details:
If you would like to be considered for this exciting opportunity, please contact Tom Stock direct on 020 3800 1852 . Alternatively apply for the role with your CV to get the ball rolling!
Health Recruit Network are a trusted supplier of NHS and Private healthcare services. We supply work to Registered General Nurses (RGN), Mental Health Nurses (RMN), Learning Disabilities Nurse (RNLD) and Healthcare Assistants (HCA). We are one of the fastest growing recruitment agencies in the UK and supply Nationwide. Health Recruit Network are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
About Us:
We are happy to be working with one of the UK’s Top Fertility Clinics. They are looking for brilliant minds and passionate hearts to help them shape the future of fertility. They are one of the largest fertility service providers in Europe operating their IVF clinics and egg/sperm freezing banks in the UK, Poland and Netherlands. They have embarked on the mission to use technology to provide patients with a memorable best-in-class fertility journey that leads to the best outcome – starting a family!
Job Summary:
They are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Regional Lab Manager to join their dynamic team. The ideal candidate will Lead two laboratories, ensuring the delivery of highest standards of patient care, manage personnel, resources, regulatory compliance, and quality. Approximate split: 80% management, 20% clinical. Member of clinic management teams, contributing to strategy and group-wide projects
Regional Laboratory Manager Key Responsibilities:
- Lead two laboratories, setting the highest standards for clinical practice.
- Empower your laboratory teams to deliver exceptional patient care
- Mentor and develop staff, fostering a culture of growth, learning and continuous development
- Communicate results and treatment options to patients with empathy and clarity
- Champion quality, safety, and regulatory excellence
- Drive innovation and continuous improvement
- Represent your region in strategic discussions, KPI meetings and group-wide projects
Clinical Skills
- To perform all standard embryology and andrology procedures including semen preparation, oocyte collection, insemination via ICSI, fertilisation checks, embryo culture, embryo transfer, embryo biopsy (if required) and cryopreservation of gametes/embryos.
- To recruit, select and screen gamete donors in line with national regulation and policies
- To ensure all procedures are performed in line with Laboratory SOP’s
- To communicate results to patients, explain treatment options and the implications
- To take effective consent from patients
- To accurately record details of patient cycles in the patient management system and the laboratory notes
- To perform witnessing and traceability in line with national regulation and policy
Quality Management
- To ensure adherence to SOPs through audit, direct observation of practice and data analysis
- To document control laboratory documents, including reviewing content, updating in line with national and policies and distributing documents to laboratory staff
- To actively manage the laboratory audit programme at both sites, review outcomes and identify areas for improvement/preventative action
- To actively manage non-conformities within the laboratory area at both sites, ensuring timely resolution, identify and implement corrective & preventative actions, perform root cause analysis and implement shared learning action points
- To lead along with the Quality Manger/General Manager in responding to patient complaints relating to the laboratory area, ensuring that learnings are disseminated to the team.
- To review and analyse KPI data for the laboratory and identify areas for improvement, including creating action plans to deliver the identified areas for improvement.
- To performance manage and support staff who are outside KPI limits, including providing the training required
- To manage Health & Safety within the laboratory area ensuring a safe working environment, including the provision of training, protective equipment and ensuring risk assessments are performed and regularly reviewed
- To regularly review the service and look for opportunities for service improvement, service expansion and improving staff and patient satisfaction
Resource Management
- To ensure all equipment within both laboratories is validated, serviced and repaired in line with policy and regulatory requirements
- To manage the levels of equipment within the laboratory ensuring there is sufficient equipment to support the needs of the service and plan for capital expenditure within both laboratories
- To manage consumable usage within both laboratories to ensure it is aligned with policy and provides cost effectiveness
- To ensure adequate staffing levels and skill mix within the laboratories and arrange x-site cover
- To manage rotas, annual leave, maternity leave and sickness within the laboratory team and ensure an appropriate skill mix
- To support the General Manager in creating the clinics budget by identifying equipment, staffing and training requirements
Induction, Training and Performance Management of Staff
- To ensure new members of staff are safely and promptly onboarded into their roles
- Support and mentor junior staff, fostering a culture of continuous learning and development. This includes the planning and training of junior members/new members of staff within the laboratory team and support trainees through the Training Scheme
- To act as an assessor for the Training Scheme
- To performance manage members of the laboratory team, including performing appraisals, competency assessments, managing performance improvement and addressing poor performance in line with policy
- To ensure an adequate level of staff trained for ICSI, biopsy etc as in agreement with the Director of Embryology.
- To participate in continuing professional development and create development plans for members of the laboratory team
Regulatory Compliance
- To represent and lead both laboratories at HFEA inspections, supported by the senior embryologists within each lab.
- To ensure all procedures are performed in line with national regulation, professional guidelines and Policy
- To ensure that the national regulator is notified of areas of non-compliance in line with national regulation, and that the notifications are also followed.
- To ensure that policy decisions regarding the laboratory area are implemented
- To manage witnessing and traceability within the laboratory in line with national regulation and policies
- To oversee and lead the cryostore and ensure effective consent is in place in line with regulatory requirements
- To oversee and lead transport of gametes/embryos in and out of the clinic in line with national regulations and policies
- To support the planning, implementation and reporting of research projects in line with national regulations
Recommendations:
Heath Recruit Network have a fantastic Recommendation scheme that we offer to all candidates. We offer a £200 voucher for a variety of businesses for each successful recommendation/referral.
Contact Details:
If you would like to be considered for this exciting opportunity, please contact Tom Stock direct on 020 3800 1852 . Alternatively apply for the role with your CV to get the ball rolling!
Health Recruit Network are a trusted supplier of NHS and Private healthcare services. We supply work to Registered General Nurses (RGN), Mental Health Nurses (RMN), Learning Disabilities Nurse (RNLD) and Healthcare Assistants (HCA). We are one of the fastest growing recruitment agencies in the UK and supply Nationwide. Health Recruit Network are acting as an employment agency in relation to this vacancy.
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