Anticoagulation Practitioner

Job summary

The University Hospital of North Midlands, Mid Cheshire and East Cheshire NHS Trusts are working collaboratively to form a Pathology network in line with a NHSI directive.

Anticoagulation Practitioner

(suitable for Biomedical Scientists, registered nurses and other registered professional healthcare roles)

Band 5

Leighton Hospital and community clinics across Cheshire

PLEASE NOTE: This is not a laboratory-based role and the department is unable to support the IBMS certificate of competence (registration) portfolio or IBMS specialist portfolio.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an enthusiastic, compassionate and flexible person to join our anticoagulation team at Leighton Hospital as an Anticoagulation Practitioner (ACP).

The role involves providing a high quality anticoagulation monitoring service to patients through scientific and technical activities. You will be required to attend community locations to undertake INR measurements for our patients. The ACP is responsible for providing warfarin dosing advice to patients based on their history, concurrent medications and target range using the DAWN AC software system. The role involves both team working and lone working; the ability to manage your time and prioritise tasks under pressure will be advantageous. You will also be required to provide supervision for non-registered Anticoagulation Support Workers (ASWs) working within the team.

The post holder will be expected to maintain competence to practice and to improve professional expertise through Continuous Professional Development (CPD) as well as departmental training and competency assessments. The post holder's main base will be at Leighton Hospital but with a substantial part of each week spent at community clinics serving Mid, East, South Cheshire and Vale Royal. The post holder may also be required to cover at Macclesfield Hospital on occasion.

The term ACP encompasses state registered staff such as Biomedical Scientists, Registered Nurses, and Pharmacy Technicians working in the Anticoagulation department.

About us

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Educated to degree level. Registration with the Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) or equivalent registered body Proficient in the use of Microsoft office: Word, Excel, access and Power-point Professional training delivery qualification or equivalent experience of delivering and facilitating in challenging environments. Portfolio of certified/accredited professional development activity undertaken in relevant areas

Desirable

Experience and/or qualifications in patient facing roles IBMS membership or membership of equivalent body

Knowledge, skills, training and experience

Essential

Able to work to Standard operating procedures and contribute to their review and implementation Able to communicate information accurately, both orally and in writing and with all service users Ability to prioritise workload in response to service need Ability to work autonomously and be accountable for own actions Ability to motivate and support others to achieve goals Able to utilise initiative to solve problems and develop the service Ability to work as part of the wider team Experience of delivering training programmes & presentations to various levels of staff. Excellent written and communication skills Ability to maintain confidentiality and deal with situations in a sensitive manner Ability to follow complex instructions and make the complex simple Ability to contribute directly to the production of strategy and policy documentation Ability to develop medium and long term plans to meet service need and ensure sustainability Ability to apply evaluative and reflective techniques to personal practice, events and activities Ability to understand, interpret and critically analyse data and information Full driving license and use of own vehicle

Personal qualities

Essential

Positive mindset in respect of supporting organisational change; learning, and continuous improvement. Effective interpersonal and intrapersonal skills including high degree of self-awareness and self regulation Takes responsibility and is accountable for delivering to their agree objectives Consistently professional, collaborative and compassionate in their approach. Works with patients and people at the fore - operates to a customer service ethos Acts to support and enable effective teamwork Delivers work of consistent and predictable high quality There is a frequent requirement for prolonged concentration Emotional effort; the post holder will at times be exposed to distressing and emotional circumstances Ability to travel to and work across multiple sites

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