Job summary
The University Hospital of North Midlands, Mid Cheshire and East Cheshire NHS Trusts are working collaboratively to form a Pathology network in line with a NHSI directive.
Anticoagulation Practitioner
(suitable for Biomedical Scientists, registered nurses and other registered professional healthcare roles)
Band 5
Macclesfield Hospital and community clinics across Cheshire
PLEASE NOTE: This is not a laboratory-based role and the department is unable to support the IBMS certificate of competence (registration) portfolio or IBMS specialist portfolio.
Main duties of the job
We are seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate and flexible person to join our anticoagulation team at Macclesfield Hospital as an Anticoagulation Practitioner (ACP).
The role involves providing a high quality anticoagulation monitoring service to patients through scientific and technical activities. You will be required to attend community locations to undertake INR measurements for our patients. The ACP is responsible for providing warfarin dosing advice to patients based on their history, concurrent medications and target range using the DAWN AC software system. The role involves both team working and lone working; the ability to manage your time and prioritise tasks under pressure will be advantageous. You will also be required to provide supervision for non-registered Anticoagulation Support Workers (ASWs) working within the team.
The post holder will be expected to maintain competence to practice and to improve professional expertise through Continuous Professional Development (CPD) as well as departmental training and competency assessments. The post holder's main base will be at Macclesfield Hospital but with a substantial part of each week spent at community clinics serving Mid, East, South Cheshire and Vale Royal. The post holder may also be required to cover at Leighton Hospital on occasion.
The term ACP encompasses state registered staff such as Biomedical Scientists, Registered Nurses, and Pharmacy Technicians working in the Anticoagulation department.
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) or equivalent registered body
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point
- Professional training delivery qualification or equivalent experience of delivering and facilitating in challenging environments.
- Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas
Desirable
- Experience and/or qualifications in patient facing roles
- IBMS membership or membership of equivalent body
Knowledge, skills, training and experience
Essential
- Able to work to Standard operating procedures and contribute to their review and implementation
- Able to communicate information accurately, both orally and in writing and with all service users
- Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need
- Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
- Ability to motivate and support others to achieve goals
- Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
- Ability to work as part of the wider team
- Experience of delivering training programmes & presentations to various levels of staff.
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
- Ability to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple
- Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
- Ability to develop medium and long term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability
- Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
- Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information
- Full driving license and use of own vehicle
Personal qualities
Essential
- Positive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement.
- Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self regulation
- Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agree objectives
- Consistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach.
- Works with patients and people at the fore - operates to a customer service ethos
- Acts to support and enable effective teamwork
- Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
- There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration
- Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
- Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to degree level.
- Registration with the Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) or equivalent registered body
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point
- Professional training delivery qualification or equivalent experience of delivering and facilitating in challenging environments.
- Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas
Desirable
- Experience and/or qualifications in patient facing roles
- IBMS membership or membership of equivalent body
Knowledge, skills, training and experience
Essential
- Able to work to Standard operating procedures and contribute to their review and implementation
- Able to communicate information accurately, both orally and in writing and with all service users
- Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need
- Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions
- Ability to motivate and support others to achieve goals
- Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service
- Ability to work as part of the wider team
- Experience of delivering training programmes & presentations to various levels of staff.
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner
- Ability to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple
- Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation
- Ability to develop medium and long term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability
- Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities
- Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information
- Full driving license and use of own vehicle
Personal qualities
Essential
- Positive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement.
- Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self regulation
- Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agree objectives
- Consistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach.
- Works with patients and people at the fore - operates to a customer service ethos
- Acts to support and enable effective teamwork
- Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality
- There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration
- Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances
- Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
