Treatment Nurse - Burnham, Berrow & Highbridge Med Centres, Somerset.
Symphony Healthcare Services (SHS) are looking to appoint a Treatment Room Nurse for their Burnham & Berrow and Highbridge Medical Centres.
We are looking for a committed and experienced nurse to join a fantastic nursing team, to work across all three medical centres.
The vacant role is full-time (37.5 hours per week) and the salary is £35,506 per annum. You also have the option of joining an NHS Pension, which is just one of SHS's many excellent employee benefits.
You would be part of a nursing team responsible for ensuring that each medical centre provides optimum care relevant to the practice population, either in practice or the home environment.
Experience in wound care and general nursing duties is desirable.
Main duties of the job
As a SHS Treatment Room Nurse, you will:
* Assist the whole practice team to help deliver effective management of patients and their needs.
* Manage the nursing care of patients with chronic disease, employing recall systems suitable to the practice needs, including using the practice computer systems for input of information for recall and screening purposes.
* Contribute to the development of policies, protocols, and guidelines within the practice.
* Aid the practice team with implementation of new initiatives in the delivery of chronic disease management services.
* Encourage the development of integrated services within Primary Care, including integrated practice-based teams and multidisciplinary working.
* Recognise opportunities for working in partnership with the Primary Health care team.
* Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition.
* Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
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 120,000 patients.
SHS has developed a model where each practice operates autonomously, but as a subsidiary of NHS Somerset Foundation Trust (SFT), 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.
SHS welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds and underrepresented groups. When undertaking recruitment and selection for our services, SHS is committed to equality of opportunity for all.
SHS offers an NHS or NEST Pension, a fantastic range of employee benefits, and salary sacrifice schemes, along with flexible working from day of employment and an agile approach to home/office-based working.
We look forward to hearing from you and receiving your application.
Job responsibilities
As a SHS Treatment Room Nurse, your duties will include the following clinical skills (this list is not exhaustive):
* Wound care, dressings and general treatment room skills
* Urinalysis
* Contraceptive advice, Family planning, Sexual Health
* Cytology
* Assist with Coil removal
* Maintaining Thyroxine register
* Ear Syringing
* ECG
* BT, BP and Weight
* Diet and Lifestyle advice
* Injections (B12, Triptorelin, Zoladex, and Depo etc.)
* Stock checking and ordering of vaccines
Chronic Disease Management
Your skills will include some or all of the following (this list is not exhaustive):
* Mental Health
* Diabetes
* Asthma/COPD
* CHD
Please see the attached job description and person specification (JD) for a full list of duties, tasks, and expectations. Please read this in full before applying.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Willingness to learn and acquire new skills.
* Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the NHS.
* Post-registration study in topics allied to general practice.
Experience
* Evidence of appropriate knowledge base.
* Interest and basic knowledge in long-term conditions.
* Demonstrate an understanding of audit.
* Primary Care Experience.
* Experience of working in a General Practice setting.
* Experience of using a GP Clinical System (EMIS preferred).
* Basic/advanced certificate of life support.
* Awareness of national service framework guidelines.
* Understanding of health and safety issues.
Knowledge and Skills
* Good interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
* Demonstrates motivation, reliability, and commitment to teamwork.
* Knowledge of the needs of patients with long-term conditions.
* Evidence of problem-solving and decision-making skills.
* Aware of accountability of own role and other roles in a nurse-led service.
* Knowledge of health promotion strategies.
* Awareness of clinical governance issues in primary care.
* Knowledge of patient group directions and associated policy.
* Able to use own initiative.
* Able to work under pressure.
* Able to work in a changing environment.
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.
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