Clinical Nurse Specialist - Anticoagulation

NHS; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare service provider in Welwyn Garden City is seeking a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Anticoagulation. The ideal candidate will provide comprehensive care, working with a medical team and assisting in service development. Key qualifications include being a registered nurse and having experience in acute settings. Benefits include a competitive salary range of £47,810 to £54,710 plus a 5% High Cost Area Supplement. Join our vision to provide exceptional patient care alongside supportive professionals.

Benefits

5% High Cost Area Supplement

Supportive work environment

Flexibility in working patterns

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with demonstrable post-registration experience.
• Experience in acute healthcare settings.
• Experience working in a Band 6 or above nurse specialist role.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert holistic care to patients and relatives.
• Assess, treat, educate, and follow up with anticoagulation patients.
• Plan specialized care programs for patients.

Skills

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Understanding of clinical risk management

Presentation skills

Competent user of Microsoft Excel

Education

1st level Registered Nurse

Non-Medical Nurse Prescriber

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Outlook

Job description

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist - Anticoagulation. The closing date is 12 February 2026.

We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will provide expert, holistic care of a high standard to both the patients and their relatives; to assist in the development and maintenance of the Anticoagulant Service within East & North Herts NHS Trust.

The post holder will provide a patient focused service to include assessment, treatment, education and follow-up services for this specific patient group; working with the anticoagulation medical and laboratory team and liaising with Primary Care.

In addition, you will receive a High-Cost Area Supplement of 5% of your basic salary, subject to a minimum payment of £1,303 and a maximum payment of £2,198 per annum pro rata.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The Clinical Nurse Specialist will act as an autonomous practitioner and will utilise advanced skills of assessment, interprets complex psychological, physiological, emotional, spiritual and cultural needs.

They will enable patient choice and involvement and initiates appropriate action.

The post holder will plan specialised programmes of care and ensures each patient is placed in the correct treatment pathway.

To review patients independently and initiates changes in management of care and ensure that effective communication is maintained both within the unit itself and with relevant external agencies or individuals.

The post holder will provide specialist advice in the area of Anticoagulation to all health care staff through provision of evidence based advice, guidance and policies to improve the quality of care.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specifications for more detailed information regarding the role and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

• 1st level Registered Nurse
• Non-Medical Nurse Prescriber
• Evidence of Leadership/ Coaching Courses
• Mentorship & Preceptorship in the clinical area course or equivalent.

Previous Experience

• Demonstrable post registration experience in an acute healthcare setting
• Demonstrable interest in and in the commitment to the professional development of others, coaching and has experience of performing staff appraisals
• Demonstrate experience working in a Band 6 post or above i.e. a nurse specialist role
• Ability to carry out reviews of patients independently and initiates changes in management of care
• Demonstrable experience of managing audit activity including clinical observations, reporting, development of action plans and follow-up
• Demonstrable interest and involvement in Anticoagulation/ Thrombosis in the healthcare setting
• Demonstrate experience working in a Band 6 post or above i.e. a nurse specialist role
• Demonstrable experience of delivering education and training

Skills

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Understanding of the issues pertaining to clinical risk management
• Build and maintain effective communication between all members of the multidisciplinary team
• Accuracy and attention to detail in relation to computer data entry and recording of information
• Presentation skills and ability to convey complex information clearly
• Competent user of computer software including Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook
• Ability to deal with complex or stressful situations involving staff, patients and relatives, demonstrating an assertive but sensitive and equitable approach

Knowledge

• Demonstrate an understanding Anticoagulation/ Thrombosis in the clinical setting
• Ability to plan specialised programs of care and ensure each patient is placed in the correct treatment pathway at the appropriate time and necessary investigations and treatments are organised
• Understanding of national and international infection prevention & control issues and their local impact.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop policy/ guidelines

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum (pro rata) Plus 5% High Cost Area Supplement