Anticoagulant Monitoring Nurse or Pharmacy Technician - North East

To provide efficient and safe near patient testing and monitoring of patients disease state and anticoagulation status.

To provide specialist advice and support to patients, relatives, and other health care professionals involved in the patients care.

To provide the therapeutic adjustments of oral anticoagulants within the Anticoagulant Protocol to ensure patients are kept targeting INR.

To perform dose adjustment and titration, by following the Anticoagulant Protocol.

To ensure maintenance of anticoagulation kit and equipment.

Work as part of the Anticoagulant team, in clinics and home visits, 1. Promote and monitor the appropriate and safe use of anticoagulant therapies within the service under the direction of the Contract Lead.
2. Works under direction of the Anticoagulant Protocol.
3. Performs near patient testing of all anticoagulant patients in a clinic setting.
4. Receive, interpret and dose patients accordingly to maintain their target INR, considering interacting medication, disease state and any other factors.
5. Initiate anticoagulant patients and manage transfer of their care from a hospital setting.
6. Administer vitamin K in-line with Patient Group Directions.
7. Provide advice and support to patients and their relatives and carers as appropriate.
8. Maintain anticoagulant kit and equipment, ensuring adequate supplies to carry out the clinic and domiciliary visits.
9. Participation in NEQAS scheme and other routine equipment validation.
10. Work as part of the anticoagulant team and wider team of health care professionals, fielding queries and offering advice.

IntraHealth is one of the UKs leading provider of NHS Primary and Community Care services. We serve a range of patients across our three divisions of Primary Care (general practice), Pharmacy and Clinical Services which includes anticoagulation monitoring, patient medication reviews and childhood immunisation programmes.

We also provide management and clinical support to other GP practices and NHS bodies. We are a well-established organisation having provided NHS services since the company was founded in 1999. Our team is made up of GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners (ANPs), Nurses, Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Health Care Assistants (HCAs) and local administration teams supported by a centralised back office function; providing finance, HR, administration and data analysis support.

We operate NHS services across the North East, North West and Yorkshire.