Anticoagulant Specialist Nurse Manager

NHS; Chester; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Anticoagulant Specialist Nurse Manager to lead their anticoagulation service. The role involves clinical leadership, managing a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality patient care, and overseeing operational aspects of the service. Applicants must have the necessary nursing qualifications and experience in clinical leadership. Salary and terms comply with NHS standards.

Benefits

NHS pension scheme

Training and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in anticoagulation and clinical leadership is essential.
• Successful completion of a Non Medical Prescribing course required.
• Able to manage workload autonomously.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational management and clinical leadership for the anticoagulation service.
• Perform comprehensive patient assessments and implement care delivery plans.
• Supervise nursing colleagues and ensure compliance with processes.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Anticoagulation

Interpersonal relationships

Education

Registered General Nurse Diploma

Degree

Teaching and Assessing Qualification

Job description

Go back Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Anticoagulant Specialist Nurse Manager

The closing date is 29 June 2025

Are you an experienced and dynamic nurse with a strong background Anticoagulation and clinical leadership? We are seeking a dedicated band 7 Anticoagulation nurse manager to lead and develop our Anticoagulation service, ensuring safe, high quality care for patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.

You will be responsible for the operational management, clinical leadership, and development of our anticoagulation service. Working collaboratively with our multi-disciplinary teams you will ensure the delivery of evidenced based care, support innovation, and contribute to service improvement initiatives.

Main duties of the job

Perform comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery

Perform advanced clinical skills in assessment, monitoring, treatment and discharge. Provide advice for complex dosing issues

Communicates highly sensitive information to patients and relatives/carers

Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.

Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.

Provide specialist, clinical knowledge to nursing colleagues, health care professionals, patients and carers/relatives.

Following the successful completion of a Non Medical Prescribing course and registering the qualification with the Nursing & Midwifery Council, have the ability to prescribe as a non-medical Prescriber (NMP) for Anticoagulant patients according to a Personal formulary of medicine.

Manage and organise the Anticoagulant Service, ensuring dosing and clerk tasks are completed to the required standard.

Supervise nursing colleagues on an individual or group basis.

Write and review SOPs.

Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources.

Participate in the recruitment and retention of staff.

Ensure equipment and stocks are maintained, operational and quality controlled.

About us

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

o The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.o Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.o Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.

The Trust employs over 5916 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 411,000. This includes 361,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.

The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.

Job responsibilities

See Job Description for further details.

Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costswill be deducted from their salary over the first three months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16per year applies.

New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.

Good luck with your application.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered General Nurse Diploma
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification. E.g. ENB998 or City and Guilds 730
• Degree
• Certification

Knowledge and experience

• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policies relating to specialist area
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues across health and social care settings
• Able to manage own work load autonomously
• Successful completion of a Non Medical Prescribing course and registering the qualification with the Nursing & Midwifery Council, or working towards.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust