Job overview

Are you a skilled and passionate nurse ready to take the next step in your career?
We are offering an exciting opportunity for an experienced and dynamic nurse to lead our Anticoagulation Nursing Team as Unit Manager (Band 7).

This is a pivotal leadership role for a clinically confident professional with advanced nursing skills and specialist experience in anticoagulation. We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• Proven leadership and team management capabilities
• Independant Nurse Prescriber 
• A commitment to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centred care
• Innovation in service development and quality improvement
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary collaboration skills

The role will involve working across hospital sites and community clinics, so a full UK driving licence is essential. Trust vehicles are provided to support travel requirements.

If you are ready to influence and shape the future of anticoagulation care within a supportive and forward-thinking environment, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

To be a high profile, accessible and responsive leader with the responsibility and 
accountability for the provision, management and development of a quality 
specialist Anticoagulant nursing service that meets the needs of the patients in
accordance with national and local policies and initiatives.
To assist the Matron/Group Director of Nursing to develop and implement effective
systems and working practices to facilitate service developments within the
department and encourage team members to embrace best practice and new
models of working.
Set high professional standards as the clinical leader for all department staff. By 
ensuring that all staff have the adequate skills and competence to deliver high
quality and clinically effective patient care.
The post holder will act as an independent practitioner using advanced clinical skills
to assess, diagnose, treat, prescribe plans of care and mange caseloads of patients 
They will also need to be able to make informed decisions within their own area
and scope of professional practice, involving patients and public to ensure
agreed clinical standards and targets are met.
To manage and co-ordinate staff and clinical activity within the ward/department,
playing a key role within the multi-disciplinary team.
Take the lead role for department change management activity, developing and 
maintaining strong communication links with divisional operational management 
and others.

Please see attached JD and PS for full details 

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

Multi-site working 

The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond". 

To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:

Against this context, although this post is hosted by Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.