Anticoagulant Clinical Nurse Specialist | Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Swindon, SN3 6BB |
| Company: | The Great Western Hospitals NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6181932/249-6181932 |
Summary
The Anticoagulant Clinical Nurse Specialist/pharmacist will be responsible for providing a Nurse/Pharmacist Led Anticoagulation Service offering advice and expertise within the area of Anticoagulation and also providing a dosing service for all oral anticoagulants for outpatients. It is expected that once competencies in anticoagulation have been gained that the post holder will undertake the NMP course.
Other duties will include: discharge planning, an outpatient DVT service, management of obstetric patients requiring anticoagulation, perioperative planning for anticoagulated patients and new patient clinics.
They will provide advice on all areas of anticoagulation therapy to colleagues and clients.
The Anticoagulant Clinic at GWH manages over 6000 local patients receiving anticoagulation. The clinic is well regarded nationally having been one of the first Trusts to introduce outpatient management of DVTs many years ago.
The team have attended conferences both nationally and internationally and presented audit work.
The team is small but well supported, enthusiastic and friendly.
• To provide a practitioner-led Anticoagulation Service working within the Integrated Care and Community Directorate team working autonomously making independent clinical decisions (a Training program to reflect the achievements required will be commenced with the expectation that all competencies are signed off within 6 months).
• To collate and store information and statistics for all anticoagulated patients.
• To maintain accurate records in line with Trust policy and NMC records and record keeping guidelines.
• To work within and promote Trust protocols for Anticoagulation.
• To run daily weekday outpatient anticoagulant clinics utilising point of care testing device.
• Counselling and education of new anticoagulant patients.
• To provide a telephone advisory service to answer patients’, medical staff and primary healthcare providers’ enquiries regarding anticoagulation.
Our STAR values are at the heart of everything we do. You can expect to see them in the way we act and the way we treat each other. Our values make us who we are. We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:
Service - We will put our patients first
Teamwork - We will work together
Ambition - We will aspire to provide the best service
Respect - We will act with integrity
To assist in the running of daily weekday outpatient postal clinics accurately adjusting warfarin doses according to protocol with the support of the specialised computer database (this requires working independently and also requires a high level of IT competency).
To assist in the treatment of over-anticoagulated patients in line with established protocols.
To work to relevant PGDs relating to anticoagulation until NMP course achieved.
Together with team members ensure accurate maintenance of the Anticoagulation computer database.
To dose adjust oral anticoagulation for inpatients within SwICC.
To liaise with medical and nursing teams regarding anticoagulant related clinical problems with inpatients.
To support and facilitate early discharge of anticoagulant inpatients to maximize patient flow.
Please see Job Description for further details.
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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