Lead Nurse in General Practice - South Petherton & Martock, Somerset

Lead Nurse in General Practice - South Petherton & Martock, Somerset

An exciting opportunity has arisen with Symphony Healthcare Services (SHS) to join forward-thinking practices at Martock and South Petherton Surgeries.

As a Symphony Healthcare (SHS) Lead Nurse, you would 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.

You would be able to run a full Practice Nurse clinic. This would include but is not limited to providing general nurse appointment cover and Chronic Disease Management. You will also demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making, assessment, and expert care.

Please note that this post will be based from both South Petherton Medical Centre and Martock Surgery.

This is a permanent post of 30 hours per week, working Monday to Friday. Working pattern to be discussed at interview.

The annual salary for this post is £46,955, plus many excellent employee benefits (see attached poster for more information).

Main duties of the job

As a SHS Lead Nurse you will:

• Create a development and training plan for the nursing team as a whole, to ensure that the needs of the Practice are covered and all areas have appropriate skill mixes.
• Maximise the performance of individuals and the efficiency and effectiveness of the team, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality service for patients.
• Contribute to the development of the practice by participating in all clinical and managerial meetings and helping to construct practice development plans as required.

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.

SHS 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.

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 (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

Additional

• Ability to work core hours.
• Flexibility for cover.
• Full Driving licence and car/transport.

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.
• 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 the national service framework guidelines.
• Understanding of health and safety issues.

Knowledge

• Good interpersonal skills, both verbal and written.
• Evidence of problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrates motivation, reliability and commitment to team working.
• Knowledge of needs of patients with long-term conditions.
• 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.

Martock & South Petherton Practice Manager