Anticoagulant Specialist Nurse Manager

Job summary

Working Part time: 32.5 hours per week

Are you an experienced and dynamic nurse with a strong background Anticoagulation and clinical leadership? We are seeking a dedicated band 7 Anticoagulation nurse manager to lead and develop our Anticoagulation service, ensuring safe, high quality care for patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.

You will be responsible for the operational management, clinical leadership, and development of our anticoagulation service. Working collaboratively with our multi-disciplinary teams you will ensure the delivery of evidenced based care, support innovation, and contribute to service improvement initiatives.

Main duties of the job

Perform comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery

Perform advanced clinical skills in assessment, monitoring, treatment and discharge. Provide advice for complex dosing issues

Communicates highly sensitive information to patients and relatives/carers

Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.

Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.

Provide specialist, clinical knowledge to nursing colleagues, health care professionals, patients and carers/relatives.

Following the successful completion of a Non Medical Prescribing course and registering the qualification with the Nursing & Midwifery Council, have the ability to prescribe as a non-medical Prescriber (NMP) for Anticoagulant patients according to a Personal formulary of medicine.

Manage and organise the Anticoagulant Service, ensuring dosing and clerk tasks are completed to the required standard.

Supervise nursing colleagues on an individual or group basis.

Write and review SOPs.

Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources.

Participate in the recruitment and retention of staff.

Ensure equipment and stocks are maintained, operational and quality controlled.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

o The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.o Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.o Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.