Anticoagulation Practitioner | University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 23 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £38,682 - £46,580 pa |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 January 2026 |
| Location: | Bournemouth, BH8 0BJ |
| Company: | Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7620032/153-SP05438 |
Summary
Are you passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centered care? Join our dynamic Anticoagulation Service as a Band 6 Anticoagulation Practitioner and play a vital role in improving outcomes for patients across the community and hospital settings.
You’ll assist in managing a caseload of over 1,000 patients who take vitamin K antagonists, providing expert support for both inpatients and outpatients, and working across all areas of anticoagulation therapy. This is an exciting opportunity to develop your clinical expertise, work collaboratively within a supportive multidisciplinary team, and make a real difference to patient safety and quality of care. If you’re looking for a role that combines autonomy, variety, and professional growth, we’d love to hear from you.
• Provide an autonomous clinical dosing service for patients on anticoagulants in both hospital and community settings.
• Manage a caseload of patients requiring anticoagulation therapy, including initiation, bridging, conversion, and maintenance.
• Dose Warfarin and Direct Oral Anticoagulants (DOACs) using computerised dosing software in line with Trust and national guidelines.
• Deliver structured education, support, and specialist advice to patients and their families to promote safe and informed care.
• Conduct telephone consultations and practitioner-led clinics to review and adjust treatment plans.
• Assess patients for anticoagulation therapy, checking indications, contraindications, and safety considerations.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams across hospital and community settings to ensure safe and effective anticoagulant management.
• Participate in service development, audits, and evidence-based practice initiatives to improve patient outcomes.
• Maintain accurate patient records and ensure compliance with local and national guidelines.
• Support training and education for new staff and contribute to creating a learning environment within the team.
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues. UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme. This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Providing a clinical dosing service for patients on anticoagulants
contributing to clinical care within the hospital and community
The anticoagulant practitioner will be responsible for providing specialist
knowledge and care to patients. They will undertake a range of duties to
ensure the effective delivery of care, providing specialist advice,
structured education and ongoing support to their anticoagulant patients
based on individual need.
The post holder will be an experienced registered nurse responsible for
the provision of an autonomous service for patients requiring
anticoagulation therapy, but will refer for consultant nurse/haematologist
advice when secondary involvement is necessary.
To dose Warfarin and Direct Oral Anticoagulant and associated drugs as
directed by departmental, Trust and national guidelines
To provide support and education to patients receiving anticoagulant
therapy
This advert closes on Wednesday 14 Jan 2026
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