Practice Nurse with Chronic Disease Management - Yeovil GP Surgeries

Symphony Healthcare Services have a vacancy for a Practice Nurse, with experience in chronic disease management to work across Oaklands Surgery, Ryalls Park Medical Centre and Yeovil Health Centre in Yeovil, Somerset. Both are part of the Yeovil Primary Care Network of practices.

We pride ourselves on providing excellent employee benefits, including competitive pay, professional development opportunities, and a supportive work environment. If you are passionate about patient care and eager to become a valued member of our healthcare team, we would love to hear from you.

This is a permanent, part-time post of 30 hours per week. Days and hours of work will be discussed at interview stage. The rate of pay is £17.40 - £22.17 per hour (starting salary will be based on previous experience and specific qualifications), with the option to join the NHS or NEST pension scheme, plus other great employee benefits.

As a Symphony Practice Nurse, you will provide and maintain a high standard of chronic disease management, which includes diagnosis, monitoring and development of individual management plans and agreeing these as appropriate with the patient and other health professionals.

• Be responsible for managing and running long-term condition clinics for your speciality.
• Be proactive in QoF and enhanced services management by completing annual reviews using specific templates and patient platforms.
• Review patients who present to the service on the day needing an acute review.
• Process pathology, workflow, tasks and assisting with audits as required.
• Refer directly to other services/agencies and members of multidisciplinary teams when needed e.g. social prescribers and health and well-being coaches.
• Supervise and provide training to other members of staff.

Please read the attached job description in full before applying.

Symphony Healthcare Services (Symphony) was established in 2016 as part of the award-winning Symphony Programme Vanguard, developing new models of care. We now support 20 practices across Somerset providing care for 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).

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 our core.

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

Symphony offers a fantastic range of employee benefits, along with flexible working from day of employment and an agile approach to home / office-based working.

We look forward to hearing from you.

You will be an experienced Nurse, who, acting within their professional boundaries, will deliver high quality care for patients with a range of chronic diseases in the community setting. You will work with patients and their families to develop personalised goals, manage their condition themselves and lead as independent a life as possible.

You will work in partnership with the patient, their family and carers, to develop a personalised plan of care and will be responsible for monitoring and amending plans to meet the changing needs of the patient including referral to partner organisations such as palliative care, social care and social prescribing teams.

You will also work as part of a Multi-disciplinary team but will be responsible for a designated caseload of patients registered to the practice. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, and work collaboratively to meet the needs of patients and their family.

Please see attached job description for a full list of tasks, duties and responsibilities.

• Qualifications

• Registered first level nurse
• NMC PIN / Registration
• Qualifications in chronic disease management
• Evidence of appropriate continuing personal development
• Mentor / teaching qualification
• Clinical Supervision Training and experience

• At least 2 years recent nursing experience of working with patients with chronic conditions
• Audit
• QI
• Health-needs assessment
• Research

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

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.