Job summary
Job Title: Anticoagulation Clinical Nurse Specialist
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £35,392-£42,618 per annum
Please note if you commence in post prior to October 2024, you will be paid in line with 2023/2024 agenda for change pay scales.
Closing Date: 4th October 2024
Interview Date: 14th October 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
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Main duties of the job
Working as part of a multi-professional team to deliver enhanced clinical practice to a specific client group and participate in education, audit and application of evidence-based practice within the specialty.
Specialist Practice
- Manage daily anticoagulation nurse led clinics
- Receive direct referrals from General Practitioners and Consultants
- Manage and co-ordinate all investigations and treatment for DVT patients from referral to diagnosis according to the DVT protocol
- Participate in approved Patient Group directions by the Trust appropriate to our sphere of practice, to maintain safe anticoagulation for patients.
- Co-ordinate patient discharge liaising with all members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure that safe delivery of anticoagulation continues as an outpatient
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Carry out programmes of care and treatment determined by others.
Manages clinical caseload on a day-to-day basis including making minor modifications withinprescribed parameters reporting back to the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Provides advice in relation to the care of individual or groups of patients.
Deliver education programmes to patients, carers and other nursing staff as agreed by the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Act as a role model exploiting at every opportunity to enhance the knowledge of others in issues relating to the specialism.
Participates in research and audit as part of the multi-professional team within the specialism.
Communicates effectively with colleagues, patients and other users of the Trust.
Produces written communications which are clear, fluent, concise and easily understood.
Manage daily anticoagulation nurse led clinics.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please find that the full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Carry out programmes of care and treatment determined by others.
Manages clinical caseload on a day-to-day basis including making minor modifications withinprescribed parameters reporting back to the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Provides advice in relation to the care of individual or groups of patients.
Deliver education programmes to patients, carers and other nursing staff as agreed by the Clinical Nurse Specialist.
Act as a role model exploiting at every opportunity to enhance the knowledge of others in issues relating to the specialism.
Participates in research and audit as part of the multi-professional team within the specialism.
Communicates effectively with colleagues, patients and other users of the Trust.
Produces written communications which are clear, fluent, concise and easily understood.
Manage daily anticoagulation nurse led clinics.
Please note that this list is not exhaustive, for more information please find that the full details can be found in the attached Job Description and Personal Specification.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Two years at Band 5 or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Demonstrates the use of evidence- based practice in the implementation of change.
Desirable
- Experience within the speciality
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN / RSCN / RM
- Willing to work towards a post grad qualification in speciality.
Desirable
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Evidence of ability and experience in communicating across a diverse range of people and organisations
- Evidence of ability to function with a high degree of personal accountability and autonomy
- Effective leadership skills
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
Essential
- Two years at Band 5 or equivalent
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Demonstrates the use of evidence- based practice in the implementation of change.
Desirable
- Experience within the speciality
Qualifications
Essential
- RGN / RSCN / RM
- Willing to work towards a post grad qualification in speciality.
Desirable
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Evidence of ability and experience in communicating across a diverse range of people and organisations
- Evidence of ability to function with a high degree of personal accountability and autonomy
- Effective leadership skills
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).
