Anticoagulant Specialist Nurse

• Provides expert advice, support and interventions to patients of the anticoagulation service and to healthcare professionals in primary and secondary car
• Provides comprehensive evidence-based care for patients taking anticoagulant
• Uses computer dosing system to monitor and adjust doses for warfarin patients
• Prescribes as an independent non-medical prescriber for anticoagulant patients
• Supervises anticoagulant services support staff
• Monitor INR and adjust warfarin doses in face-to-face clinics across both Calderdale and Kirklees and some remote office working.
• Train and support patients who wish to self-test.
• Ensure patient safety: Consider and interpret VTE risks, where appropriate arrange for bridging of low INR’s and reversal of high INR’s. This may involve conducting VTE risk assessments, prescribing; liaising with colleagues in primary care and arranging referral to secondary care.
• Provide support and supervision for Higher Healthcare Assistants for domiciliary visiting. This may include remotely supervising the administration of medicines.
• Provide VTE and anticoagulation advice to trust staff for warfarin in-patients.
• Continually monitor standards of care and participate in service improvements to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care.
• Contribute and support departmental audits
• Identify clinical issues and incidents within the Trust that reduce the quality of care within the specialist service.
• Provide specialist education to members of the anticoagulation team.
• Participate in multi-professional formal and informal teaching to update staff on evidence-based anticoagulation practice.
• Work within the NMC Code of Professional Practice, and within policies, procedures and guidelines of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
  
  

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Emily Newell Job title: Lead Pharmacist - Anticoagulation and Thrombosis Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01484355607