Practice Nurse - Martock & South Petherton, Somerset

Job summary

Symphony Healthcare Services (SHS) are looking to recruit a Practice Nurse to join the busy teams based at Martock Surgery and South Petherton Medical Centre.

As a Symphony Practice Nurse you will:

• be part of a nursing team responsible for ensuring that the practice provides optimum care relevant to the practice population, either in practice or the home environment.

• focus on supporting patients to be healthy, monitoring long-term conditions, health prevention and screening activities in line with the objectives and vision of Symphony Healthcare Services.

• work collaboratively with the whole general practice team to meet the needs of patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures, and providing nurse leadership as required.

This is a part time post of 30 hours per week, on a permanent contract.

The annual salary range for this post is £39,146 per annum (pro rata for part time hours).

Main duties of the job

The main duties of a SHS Practice Nurse are:

• Assisting the whole practice team to help deliver effective implementation of management of patients and their needs.
• Managing the nursing care of patients with chronic disease, employing recall systems suitable to the practice needs. This includes using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes. Accurate and efficient input of data for contract purposes is also required
• Contributing to the development of policies / protocols / guidelines within the practice.
• Aiding the practice team with implementation of new initiatives in the delivery of chronic disease management services.
• Encouraging the development of integrated services within Primary Care to include integrated practice based teams and multidisciplinary working.

About us

Symphony Healthcare Services (SHS) was established in 2016 as part of the award-winning Symphony Programme Vanguard, developing new models of care. We now support 16 practices across Somerset providing care for over 100,000 patients.

Symphony has developed a model where each practice is encouraged to operate autonomously, but as a subsidiary of NHS Somerset Foundation Trust (SFT), and with the backing and economies of scale from a central support team (particularly for HR, finance, corporate and strategic management matters).

Providing NHS services is at the heart of what we do. Our vision is to ensure that primary care is sustainable for patients and practices in Somerset, and we aim to be a national exemplar for primary care provision.

We work closely with our practice teams to support, develop and transform patient care and working practices with innovation and technology at the heart of what we do.

Symphony welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and underrepresented groups. When undertaking recruitment and selection for our services, SHS we are committed to equality of opportunity for all.

Symphony offers a 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 home / office-based working where appropriate to the role.

We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your application.

Employer details

Employer name

Symphony Healthcare Services Limited

Address

Church Street Surgery

Church Street

Martock

Somerset

TA12 6JL

Employer's website

https://www.symphonyhealthcareservices.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Symphony Healthcare Services Limited

Address

Church Street Surgery

Church Street

Martock

Somerset

TA12 6JL

Employer's website

https://www.symphonyhealthcareservices.com/ (Opens in a new tab)

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