Anticoagulation Practitioner

Job Overview

We are seeking a dedicated and experienced professional to join our Anticoagulation Service as a Anticoagulation Practitioner, working collaboratively across all sites within Frimley Health Trust and with our partners in primary care. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to quality improvement initiatives and deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.

This role is open to registered nurses or pharmacists who have experience managing anticoagulation therapy. Candidates should be capable of autonomous practice and demonstrate a commitment to excellence in patient care.

Key Requirements

Strong commitment to patient-centred service delivery

Experience In Anticoagulation Management (essential)

Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team

Excellent communication, accuracy, and literacy skills

Compassionate, caring, and detail-oriented

Well-organised with the ability to remain calm in a busy work environment

If you are a team player with a passion for improving patient outcomes in anticoagulation therapy, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• In conjunction with the team of anticoagulant specialist nurses and the lead haematology consultant for anticoagulation therapy, you will be responsible for developing the anticoagulant service at Frimley Health.
• Provide skilled and competent care to meet patient’s anticoagulation needs involving other members of the health care team as appropriate.
• Ensure the provision of continuity of care.
• Assessment, planning and implementation of the care of patients who require anticoagulant therapy in accordance with agreed protocols.
• Assist in the development of anticoagulant care pathways, to facilitate a seamless delivery of care, acting as a key worker for their pathway.
• As a leader in the field of anticoagulation, make sure that each patient’s treatment and care is based on best practice and evidence.
• To liaise with patients and GPs and organise implementation of planned actions decided and agreed with the lead Haematology Consultant for anticoagulant therapy.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• NMC registered nurse
• Degree level registration
• Mentor Prep teaching qualification ENB 998 or City & Guilds 730 or equivalent
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Recognised anticoagulation course
• Non-medical prescribing course
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent clinical experience in the relevant area of practice
• Experience of collaborating with a multi-professional team
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Proven effective budgetary management
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to train and supervise junior staff, patients and carers
• Able to manage a team in the absence of the team leader
• Able to work under own initiative within boundaries of role
• To participate and undertake tasks delegated by the nurse manager or lead consultant including mentoring roles, link nurse responsibility, auditing and clinical governance initiatives
• Knowledge and understanding of current issues in an acute NHS setting
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Evidence in changing practice and project management
• Can demonstrate an awareness and understanding of anticoagulant therapies
  
  

Special Requirements

Essential criteria

• Ability to travel to different sites
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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