Band 8a Anticoagulation Services Lead Nurse

Are you looking for a career move to enhance your clinical and leadership experience? We have an exciting opportunity within our anticoagulation service at University Hospitals Birmingham!

We are an ambitious, and dedicated team that cannot wait to welcome you and support you to become an anticoagulant expert.

We are looking for an experienced nurse with significant management experience and skills to lead and support our anti-coagulation team. Speciality support and training can be offered and you will be welcomed in to a close team of clinical nurse specialists and consultants.

You will line manage the staff within the team working across our hospital sites at the Good Hope, Heartlands and Queen Elizabeth hospitals, primarily based at our Heartlands site. You will also work clinically to manage and support the patient pathways. You will be key in developing and enhancing the service, ensuring consistency and identifying areas for change and improvement. Please do get in touch to discuss this opportunity and informal visits are welcomed., The role ensures the provision of excellent care with compassion working with patients requiring anticoagulant therapy by:

• Supporting the ongoing provision of a nurse led service and the development of new staff to those standards



• Supporting a culture of patient self-management, allowing patients to develop responsibility for managing their own condition.



• Providing clinical expertise, specialist advice and support



• Cross site working to support consistence and to identify service requirements.



• You will support the nursing team to deliver excellent standards of communication and coordinated care.
  
  We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.


Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

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