Clinical Nurse Specialist in Anticoagulation and DVT

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust; Coventry; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is looking for a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Anticoagulation and DVT. This role involves assessing patients referred from various departments, monitoring, and treating them as part of a nurse-led, multidisciplinary team. You will be accountable for clinical governance and ensure high-quality patient care. Successful candidates must provide health immunity reports and actively participate in professional development opportunities. Join us to enhance patient outcomes in a leading healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Must provide an immunisation and vaccination report from a UK health provider.
• Participation in relevant leadership development programmes is needed.

Responsibilities

• Assist in coordinating care for Anticoagulation and DVT patients.
• Accountability for actions according to the Code of Professional Conduct.
• Initiate investigations such as blood tests and Doppler ultrasound scans.

Job description

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust

Clinical Nurse Specialist in Anticoagulation and DVT

The closing date is 23 December 2025

The job is to assess patients presenting from their GP, A+E and outpatients department to the DVT service to assess, monitor and treat the patients. The service is a nurse lead service but works with multidisciplinary teams. The Anticoagulation service is to see patients referred to initiate anticoagulation and to review patients discharged on Anticoagulation. The role is a combined role of both services and across both sites.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

Main duties of the job

• Taking and triaging referrals from primary and secondary care for patients requiring or started on anticoagulation.
• Nurse led initiation and monitoring of patients on anticoagulation including patient counselling, INR monitoring and warfarin dosing (using RAID software).
• Documenting patient consultations for ongoing continuity of care i.e. GP letters.

DVT

• Take DVT patient referrals from primary and secondary care.
• Undertake patient assessment including DVT work up bloods, requesting doppler scans, interpreting results.
• Initiating interim anticoagulation and starting treatment for patients with a confirmed DVT.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Job responsibilities

• Assist in co-ordinating the care of the Anticoagulation and DVT patients along with the multidisciplinary team and clinical services to ensure the effective management of this group of patients.
• Accountable for own actions in accordance with the Code of Professional Conduct. Will contribute to corporate objectives, advise on national, local and Trust policy, procedures and guidelines ensuring that clinical governance is embedded into practice.
• Highly developed communication skills enabling maintenance of high quality service within a complex and challenging environment across primary and secondary care.
• Responsible for identifying and assessing complex clinical and non-clinical issues, implementing resolutions and monitoring/auditing outcomes.
• Undertake specialised technical and/or practical skills to ensure optimum patient management including;complex patient monitoring;equipment management and defined expanded clinical roles.
• Work autonomously in the delivery of Anticoulation and DVT clinics.
• Initiate relevant investigations such as blood tests and Dopplar ultrasound scans to enable timely diagnosis and facilitate decision making and planning of treatment.
• Prescribe and review medication, appropriate to patient needs following assessment, providing information and advice to patients on prescribed medication regimens, side effects and interactions.
• Act as a resource of specialised knowledge and clinical expertise to ensure care delivery to patients is appropriate, optimum and evidence based.
• A knowledgeable team member, supporting staff, service and policy development within a defined area/specialty.
• Utilise and ensure others use IT systems (i.e. RAID) to secure accurate and timely patient, workforce and resource data available.
• Responsible for assessing in the training and development of team members to ensure evidence based care is embedded into practice.
• Promote and monitor adherence to health and safety and Trust policy designed to protect health care staff and service users from known hazards.
• Maintain professional awareness in accordance with NMC requirements.
• Identify own development needs through active participation in the Trust Appraisal reviews.
• Actively participate in an appropriate leadership Development Programme and other developmental opportunities.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

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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.

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