Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated individual  to join our small, friendly, professional and supportive Anticoagulation Team based at St Peter’s Hospital. We run a challenging and demanding yet rewarding anticoagulant service with a patient caseload of approximately 900 patients.

In this role you will gain experience in managing all aspects of patient anticoagulation treatment and monitoring within a well defined dosage competency framework . The successful applicant will be working within a team as well as under their own initiative following specialist training.

There are exciting opportunities to develop and extend the anticoagulation service .

This is a part time role, 30 hours working 5 days per week, Monday to Friday.

It would be an advantage for the successful applicant to have experience in managing patients on an anticoagulant , with a  knowledge of warfarin and its pharmacokinetics.

If you would like to join this successful team or obtain additional information please contact the team, below, or arrange an informal visit.

Julie Hargreaves Biomedical Scientist

Julia Roper Anticoagulant Clinical Nurse Specialist

Email: [email protected]

Telephone : 01932 72 2161 or 01932 72 6426

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work closely with clinicians, specialist nurses, patients, patients carers, district nurse (DN) teams to actively manage all aspects of a patients anticoagulation within the scope of the dosage competency framework.

Internally the post holder will develop effective working relationships with: all service sites including Surgery and Medicine, Central Booking Service, patients and patients carers. Externally this includes: other NHS Trusts / GPs/ DNs

The post holder will be responsible for the management of the patient’s anticoagulant  pathway, from referral, through to initial patient education, treatment implementation and management via warfarin dosage advice. Liaising with other health care providers to ensure patient centred safe anticoagulation management.

 The post holder will provide warfarin dosage management for clinically stable patients, including patients on concurrent medications, patients with acute co morbidities, while being responsive to patients needs. Within the dosage competency framework.

The post holder will provide initial warfarin or DOAC education as appropriate following national guidance. Then subsequent ongoing patients specific education for the duration of a patients warfarin  

The post holder will act as the patient advocate and liaise directly with the patients and their carers at all points along the anticoagulation therapy pathway. Keeping the GP appraised of all warfarin dosage advice.

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

This is an exciting time to join our Trust, as we work on the expansion of our theatres at Ashford Hospital and move towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures; with care delivered by dedicated, specialist teams in a modern and well-equipped environment.

 We hope to use this centre to create an environment of learning and to facilitate training of the next generation of our skilled NHS workforce. Our plans are ambitious - why not, come and be a part of our journey.

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.