Job overview
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.
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Anticoagulation
* 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.
Working for our organisation
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 )
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 Anticoagulation 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.
To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.
Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
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