Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and experienced healthcare professional to join our multidisciplinary team as a Specialist in Thrombosis and Haemostasis. This is a pivotal clinical role, combining expert leadership, advanced diagnostic skills, and meaningful patient-facing care across a range of clinical settings.
In this role, you will play a vital part in the specialist management of patients requiring anticoagulation therapy, working closely with colleagues across inpatient, outpatient, day‑case, and remote access clinics. You will use your expertise to deliver safe, effective, and compassionate care, ensuring practice is fully aligned with national standards and local clinical guidelines.
Based across Newark and King's Mill Hospitals, you will have the opportunity to influence service development, support clinical decision-making, and contribute to a culture of excellence and continuous improvement. This role offers variety, professional challenge, and the chance to make a tangible difference to patient outcomes.
Join us at Sherwood Forest Hospitals, where your expertise will be valued, your development supported, and your work will have a real and lasting impact on the lives of our patients.
• Lead the anticoagulation service, contributing to strategic planning and service development.
• Deliver diagnostic and interpretative services for approximately 1,000 samples per day.
• Manage dosing for unstable patients and provide expert clinical advice as part of the SFHT haemostasis and thrombosis team.
• Work autonomously within the anticoagulant clinic, using a computerised clinical management system to calculate drug dosages and determine safe recall dates.
• Counsel patients and carers on medical conditions, lifestyle changes, and treatment options.
• Monitor and manage drug interactions, particularly with anticoagulant medications.
• Coordinate care for patients with over-anticoagulation, following established protocols.
• Educate patients on self-injection techniques for low molecular weight heparins and monitor their progress.
• Advise other healthcare professionals on haemostasis and thrombosis management.
• Attend and contribute to multidisciplinary team meetings, advocating for patients and supporting informed decision-making.
• Perform venepuncture and capillary sampling as required.
• Support ward staff and families during discharge planning.
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9thApril, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
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This advert closes on Tuesday 3 Mar 2026