Job overview

The Band 7 Nurse manager for the Anticoagulation Clinic will provide clinical and managerial leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, and patient-centered anticoagulation service. The role requires effective working with the Lead nurse, consultants, pharmacists, haematology, cardiology, and primary care colleagues to ensure seamless patient care across the pathway. They will also contribute to clinical governance, service improvement, and training initiatives within the trust. The post holder will act as the clinical expert in the anticoagulation therapy, overseeing the care of patients prescribed warfarin, direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs), low molecular weight heparins, and bridging regimens within an outpatient clinic, and to provide support to community services and primary care.  They will ensure patients receive appropriate initiation, monitoring, dose adjustment, education, and long-term management in line with national and local guidelines.

 In addition to clinical responsibilities, the post holder will have full managerial accountability for the anticoagulation service team, including nurses and healthcare assistants. This includes workforce planning, rostering, recruitment, appraisals, training, and performance management.

Main duties of the job

To effectively run nurse led outpatient’s clinics alongside the Lead nurse.

To initiate and follow up patients with Warfarin and DOACs and discharge safely to GP care.

Work independently in the absence of a Lead nurse within clinical competency.

To undertake teaching of patient’s (carers if appropriate) in the treatment and management of the anticoagulation therapy medicines.

Responsible for patient’s safety and high standard of specialist care for all patients on anticoagulation therapy within the service.

To liaise closely with specialist nurses and Lead nurse to ensure the effective triage of referrals to enable patients to access the appropriate element of the anticoagulation service.

Responsible for contributing to specialty clinical governance group.

To implement strategies to facilitate succession planning and retention of motivated staff.

To set up clinics, maintain equipment and be responsible for clients and staff as laid down by Health and Safety regulations.

Act as a role model for junior members of staff.

Involving in helping in initiating DOACs and prevention of VTE (HAT).

Work as part of the team.

To be competent in the anticoagulation therapy software Helicon maintain accurate records of all patient encounters in line trust record keeping policy NMC.

Undertake research projects in line with research skills and knowledge with view to presentation and publication.

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organizations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organizations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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