Current Vacancies

Symphony Healthcare Services has an exciting opportunity for a Practice Nurse with Respiratory as a specialist interest to join our dynamic and great team of Practice Nurses across Oaklands Surgery and Ryalls Park Medical Centre in Yeovil, Somerset. We regularly have student Nurses come as we are a proactive training practice to help invest in the future of Nursing staff. We work closely with our PCN where we have a hub that does vaccinations, bloods, ECGs and spirometry

This is a part time post of 33 hours per week, on a permanent contract.

The annual salary range for this post is £39,146 – £41,851per annum, depending on experience (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.

Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification document (JD) for a full list of duties, tasks and expectations associated with this role.

Please read this carefully before applying.

Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Registered first level nurse
Evidence of appropriate continuing personal development

Desirable
Mentor/teaching qualification
Clinical Supervision Training and experience

Experience Essential
At least 2 years recent nursing experience of working with patients with chronic conditions
Audit
QI

Desirable
Health-needs assessment
Research
Knowledge of EMIS/SystemOne and Ardens

Knowledge and Skills
Essential
Management of patients with Chronic diseases
Management of patients with complex needs
Local and national health policy
TEPs review
Communication skills, both written and verbal
Communication of difficult messages to patients and families
Negotiation and conflict management skills
Resource management

Desirable
Clinical examination skills ( PACR)
Non-Medical Prescribing (NMP)
Change management
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).

Employer details

Symphony Healthcare Services Limited

Oaklands Surgery

Birchfield Road

Yeovil

Somerset

BA21 5RL

Employer’s website
https://www.symphonyhealthcareservices.com/