Job summary
Symphony Healthcare Services are recruiting for an experienced and motivated Emergency Care Practitioner (Nurse or Paramedic) to join our friendly and forward-thinking Primary Care team at Crewkerne Health Centre in Crewkerne, Somerset.
This is an excellent opportunity for a highly skilled clinician to work autonomously within a supportive multidisciplinary environment, delivering high-quality urgent and same-day care to patients within a busy medical centre.
This is a permanent, part time opportunity of between 25 and 30 hours per week.
Competitive salary plus the option to join the NHS or NEST pension scheme and other great benefits.
Main duties of the job
Role Summary:
Dedicated home
visiting service (MonFri): complete an average of 3-4 home visits per day for
housebound patients and those unable to attend the practice, including
assessment, management plans, safety-netting, documentation, and onward
referral/escalation as needed.
Urgent same-day
face-to-face capacity (ad-hoc): run occasional on-the-day urgent appointments
in practice (within agreed scope of practice/skill mix) to support GP capacity
and patient access.
Learning Disability
(LD) reviews: undertake and/or support LD reviews in-practice across the year,
helping to create protected capacity, improve completion, and provide
consistent follow-up and care planning.
Clinical
coordination: triage and prioritise workload appropriately; liaise with GPs,
nursing team, community services, and families/carers to ensure joined-up care.
Safe prescribing
and investigations (within competence): request/interpret relevant observations
and investigations, contribute to treatment plans, and escalate clinical
concerns appropriately.
High-quality record
keeping: ensure timely, accurate clinical documentation, coding, and
communication of outcomes to the wider team.
Support for
vulnerable cohorts: provide proactive, patient-centred care for complex
patients, including frailty, long-term conditions, and multi-morbidity, with
clear escalation pathways.
About us
Established in 2016, Symphony
Healthcare Services (Symphony) provides NHS primary care provision across 21
sites within Somerset, linked to 14 general practice contracts. The
organisation cares for approximately 132,000 patients and employs around 600 staff.
Symphony is a subsidiary of
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust and manages its services through the support of a
central team (including HR, finance, corporate and operational governance).
Providing NHS services is at
the heart of what we do. Specifically, our vision is to be at the forefront of
sustainable, high quality general practice, collaborating with our communities
to improve experiences and health outcomes. We work closely with our practice
teams to grow, enhance, and transform our services for the benefit of patients
and staff.
Symphony welcomes
applications from people of all backgrounds and underrepresented groups. When
undertaking recruitment and selection for our services, Symphony is committed
to equality opportunity for all.
Symphony offers an NHS or
NEST Pension, a fantastic range of employee benefits and salary sacrifice
schemes (see attached poster), along with flexible working from day of
employment and an agile approach to hybrid working (where applicable).
We look forward to hearing
from you and receiving your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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Job description
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Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 5 years post-registration experience
- At least 2 years recent primary / community nursing experience
- Non-medical prescribing
- Autonomous management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries
- Clinician-led triage
- Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Audit
- Research
- QI
- Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity
- Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely
Desirable
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical practice skills
- Management of patients with long-term conditions
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Clinical examination skills
- Local and national health policy
- Clinical governance issues in primary care
- Patient group directives and associated policy
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Change management
- Resource management
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Knowledge of primary care operating environment
- Excellent analytical skills, including analysis of data
- Time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality and safety
- Strong IT skills
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
- Understanding of the South Somerset Symphony Programme and New Models of Care
- Understanding of the NHS GP Contract
- Use of EMIS searches and protocols
- Able to multi-task and cope with an unpredictable work pattern.
Desirable
- Knowledge of public health
- issues
- Able to identify determinants on health in the area
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse, paramedic or ACP
- MSc or equivalent Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Relevant health degree
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- GCSE or equivalent in English and Mathematics
- A Level qualifications or equivalent
- Evidence of continual professional development.
Desirable
- Mentor/teaching qualification
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Minimum 5 years post-registration experience
- At least 2 years recent primary / community nursing experience
- Non-medical prescribing
- Autonomous management of minor illness, minor ailments and injuries
- Clinician-led triage
- Compiling protocols and clinical guidelines
- Audit
- Research
- QI
- Evidence of appropriate continuing professional development activity
- Ability to assess and manage patient risk effectively and safely
Desirable
Knowledge and Skills
Essential
- Advanced clinical practice skills
- Management of patients with long-term conditions
- Management of patients with complex needs
- Clinical examination skills
- Local and national health policy
- Clinical governance issues in primary care
- Patient group directives and associated policy
- Communication skills, both written and verbal
- Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
- Negotiation and conflict management skills
- Change management
- Resource management
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Knowledge of primary care operating environment
- Excellent analytical skills, including analysis of data
- Time management skills and the ability to prioritise workload
- Demonstrable commitment to and focus on quality and safety
- Strong IT skills
- Ability to collaborate constructively with internal and external partners to create the conditions for successful partnership working
- Understanding of the South Somerset Symphony Programme and New Models of Care
- Understanding of the NHS GP Contract
- Use of EMIS searches and protocols
- Able to multi-task and cope with an unpredictable work pattern.
Desirable
- Knowledge of public health
- issues
- Able to identify determinants on health in the area
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered nurse, paramedic or ACP
- MSc or equivalent Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Relevant health degree
- Clinical supervision training and experience
- GCSE or equivalent in English and Mathematics
- A Level qualifications or equivalent
- Evidence of continual professional development.
Desirable
- Mentor/teaching qualification
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
