Treatment Room Nurse

Symphony Healthcare Services Limited is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Treatment Room Nurse to join our dedicated Nursing Team on a permanent basis. As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in ensuring that our practice provides optimum care to our patients.

• Assist the practice team in delivering effective management of patients and their needs.
• Manage the nursing care of patients with chronic disease, employing recall systems suitable to the practice needs.
• Contribute to the development of policies, protocols, and guidelines within the practice.
• Aid the practice team in implementing new initiatives in the delivery of chronic disease management services.
• Encourage the development of integrated services within Primary Care to include integrated practice-based teams and multidisciplinary working.
• Recognize the opportunities for working in partnership with the Primary Healthcare team.
• Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients with a known long-term condition.
• Prioritize health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent, or emergency situations.

The successful candidate will possess some or all of the following clinical skills:

• Wound care, dressings, and general treatment room skills.
• Urinalysis.
• Spirometry.
• Contraceptive advice, Family planning, Sexual Health.
• Cytology.
• Warfarin (INR) monitoring.
• Assist with Coil removal.
• Maintaining Thyroxine register.
• Ear Syringing.
• ECG.
• BT, BP, and Weight.
• Diet and Lifestyle advice.
• Immunisations (childhood, flu, pneumonia, pertussis, shingles, etc.).
• Injections (B12, Triptorelin, Zoladex, and Depo, etc.).
• Travel Vaccinations.
• Stock checking and ordering of vaccines.

The successful candidate will also possess some or all of the following Chronic Disease Management skills:

• Hypertension.
• Mental Health.
• Diabetes.
• Asthma/COPD.
• CHD.

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications and experience:

• Registered Nurse.
• Willingness to learn and acquire new skills.
• Insight and understanding of current issues in nursing and the NHS.

Desirable qualifications and experience include:

• Post-registration study in topics allied to General Practice.
• Suitable post-registration 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 the national service framework guidelines.
• Understanding of health and safety issues.
• Undertaken mentorship training.

The successful candidate will possess the following 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.
• Excellent communication skills.
• 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.