Practice Nurse - Respiratory - Yeovil, Somerset

Job summary

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Symphony Healthcare Services Limited

Address

Oaklands Surgery

Birchfield Road

Yeovil

Somerset

BA21 5RL

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

Oaklands Surgery

Birchfield Road

Yeovil

Somerset

BA21 5RL

Employer's website

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

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