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Clinical Nurse / Biomedical Scientist / Pharmacist Anticoagulation

Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chertsey, Surrey

Clinical Nurse / Biomedical Scientist / Pharmacist Anticoagulation

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Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chertsey, Surrey

  • Part time
  • Permanent
  • Onsite working

Posted today, 17 Oct | Get your application in now to be one of the first to apply.

Closing date: Closing date not specified

job Ref: e52e6a8edc664613b2bc2838a1fd43a9

Full Job Description

  • Provide basic and complex warfarin dosage management in the initiation and management of warfarin therapy
  • Lead and manage clinics for complex and medically unstable patients on warfarin
  • Support and assist occasionally with point of care clinics at Woking Community Diagnostic Hub
  • Patient and carer education, at initiation and throughout the duration of warfarin therapy
  • Formulate guideline led warfarin peri operative plans for ASPH and specialist centres including but not limited to cardiology specialties and bariatric specialties
  • Service development, Make independent professional evidence based decisions requesting and interpreting INR results, including manually adjusting anticoagulation dosages, and be accountable for these decisions
  • Manage and run face to face anticoagulant clinics for complex and clinically unstable patients
  • Provide occasional cover for point of care anticoagulant clinics based at Woking Community Diagnostic hub
  • Formulate warfarin peri operative plans for patients registered with ASPH anticoagulant service and for other specialties including, but not limited to, bariatric services and cardiology services, following national and local guidelines.
  • Manage patients thrombo prophylaxis pre and post operatively as required .Teaching patients to self inject. Commence/discontinue LMWH treatment onown professional judgement based on current guidelines
  • Establish effective and highly complex communication links with all users to ensure safe, efficient and patient centred warfarin management.
  • Provide accessible advice for patients and carers accounting for communication barriers, via telephone, email, correspondence and anticoagulant clinics
  • Provide Warfarin education advice for patients, carers and others healthcare professionals

    Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.
    • Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey. We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities. Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care. We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

    We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
  • Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
  • On-site Nurseries
  • On-site staff cafes
  • On-site parking
  • Support in career development
  • Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics, £39,205 to £47,084 a year pa inc. HCAS, pro rata of 22.5 hours pw