Job responsibilities

The Anticoagulation Specialist Nurse is responsible for delivering safe, effective and patient-centred anticoagulation care through independent clinical practice. Key responsibilities include:

• Managing an independent caseload within nurse-led anticoagulation clinics across hospital and community locations.
• Assessing, monitoring and reviewing patients receiving anticoagulation therapy in accordance with local and national guidance.
• Providing specialist advice, education and support to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Interpreting clinical information and laboratory results to support treatment decisions and ongoing management.
• Maintaining accurate clinical records in accordance with professional and organisational standards.
• Working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure coordinated care and effective patient outcomes.
• Supporting clinical governance activities including audit, service evaluation and implementation of best practice.
• Contributing to the development and improvement of anticoagulation services and pathways.
• Promoting high standards of patient safety, safeguarding, equality, diversity and inclusion.
• Acting as a clinical role model and supporting colleagues through advice, education and professional leadership.

For this role, we are seeking a registered nurse with post-registration experience, excellent communication and organisational skills, the ability to work autonomously, and a commitment to delivering high-quality patient care. Experience in anticoagulation services is desirable but not essential.

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience

Desirable

• Anticoagulation nursing experience
• History taking

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered nurse with a degree or equivalent

Desirable

• Specialist anticoagulation qualification
• Degree with honours or equivalent
• PhD qualification
• Clinical examination module

Skills, knowledge and competencies

Essential

• Basic IT skills in e-mail, word processing and spreadsheets

Skills, knowledge and competencies

Essential

• Clinically competent
• Initiation and implementation of change
• Communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
• Ability to communicate unpleasant and sensitive information
• Ability to present written information in a logical manner
• Able to manage your own workload, plan the work of others and work autonomously
• Effective delegation skills
• Experience in staff management, able to persuade and influence and handle conflict
• Knowledge of professional NHS issues
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the healthcare setting
• Be a reflective practitioner

Desirable

• Participation in service development projects
• Experience of developing care pathways relevant to the speciality

Specific role requirements

Essential

• Willing to work at pace and multitask

Physical effort

Essential

• Patient handling
• Use of manual handling equipment
• Non-patient manual handling

Physical skills

Essential

• Team player
• Flexible
• Motivated
• Good time management skills
• Able to use initiative
• Demonstrate a commitment to lifelong learning
• Use of computer for Lorenzo and ICE requests

Skills, knowledge and competencies

Essential

• Assertive

Mental effort

Essential

• Able to rise to the challenge of a busy environement
• Able to use problem solving techniques
• Is able to recognise when to escalate concerns to a higher level

Emotional effort

Essential

• Can confidently manage patients experiencing long waits for treatment
• Can address the needs of patients with mental health disorders or escalate concerns beyond personal ability

Working conditions

Essential

• Can work in a busy clinical setting in a sometimes noisy environment with occasional interruptions

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).