Associate Practitioner Anticoagulation

Job summary

To work as a key member of the multi-disciplinary Anticoagulation Team by assisting in keeping our patients safe on their high-risk anticoagulation medication and always keeping the patient at the heart of everything we do. The post holder will contribute to the clinical care of patients who take anticoagulants, by providing a safe, high quality service.

The role involves direct patient contact, face to face and via telephone, discussing anticoagulation, working with the patient to improve adherence and optimise their warfarin control. It includes performing point of care (POCT) INR tests and phlebotomy at clinics in the community and the hospital. It also involves administrative tasks which support the anticoagulation nurse clinics and the Monitoring Service including booking appointments, following up patients who DNA and communicating dosage information. This interesting and varied role requires flexibility, excellent communication skills and a great attention to detail.

Main duties of the job

Main duties include:

• use of anticoagulation software to manage our patients appointments, communicate dose advice, check medication adherence, be a first point of contact for patients and other HCP's and deal with queries.
• - You will facilitate safe discharge of inpatients back into the community, manage referrals, book appointments, follow up referrals, patients who DNA , supporting both the Anticoagulation Monitoring Service and the Nurse-delivered clinics.
• You will perform INR tests by point of care and phlebotomy in our community and hospital clinics.
• You will work flexibly to ensure clinics are always delivered and help organise clinic staffing
• The role may require to undertake domiciliary visits.
• You will support and help manage the self-testing programme.
• Training and supervision of support staff.
• To provide administrative support to the anticoagulation nurses

About us

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts

Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both

Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

2nd Floor Galen House (Addison House Health Centre) Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QR

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Address

2nd Floor Galen House (Addison House Health Centre) Princess Alexandra Hospital

Hamstel Road

Harlow

CM20 1QR

Employer's website

https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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