Somerset Public Health Nursing Team is delighted to offer the opportunity to join one of our dynamic Health Visiting Teams in South Somerset, with one 37 hour post available in Yeovil.
The Health Visitor service comprises of a skill mix team that deliver core and targeted health input through the Healthy child programme 0-5 years aged children and their families. You will be part of a busy team, working alongside Health Visitors, Assistant Practitioners, administrators and school nurses.
This is an exciting opportunity for registered nurses who hold the Specialist Public Health Nurse in Health Visiting qualification.
You will need to:
You must be an NMC registered Nurse or Midwife with SCPHN qualification with an interest of addressing the health needs of children aged 0-19 years and their families.
Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a car for work. If necessary, adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010.
We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset. We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:
Job Summary
1. Responsible for ensuring the co-ordination and delivery of skilled, effective care to promote positive health and respond to identified, individual client and population/community needs. This will reflect the prime objective of tackling disadvantage and inequality to impact on the health divide and effectively participate in the mainstream development of Early Help Services to fully embrace the ethos of integrated care delivery.
2. Provide professional and team leadership to manage a defined team delivering care to a geographical caseload/population. Undertake an ongoing community health needs profile of the caseload identifying individual, family and community needs affecting health and social well-being, including Emotional Health Screening, assessing the need for specific services and ensuring that the appropriate level of interaction is provided and co-ordinated.
3. Work with vulnerable children and families in line with national and local policies relating to safeguarding children and provide specialist support and advice to children, families and schools regarding the health and wellbeing needs of children.
4. Work in partnership with other agencies, particularly health services, education and social care. Manage and co-ordinate programmes of intervention for a caseload made up of individual children and families, to plan, implement, monitor and review programmes of intervention based on identified individual health and social needs.
Key Responsibilities
5. Identify those children who are vulnerable and/or at risk from harm. Respond appropriately to incidents of actual or suspected abuse and to ensure that child protection practice is in line with local and national guidelines and policies and prioritise court reports and Child Protection documentation.
6. Attend professionally related working groups as appropriate, which are involved in developing and agreeing local policies, protocols and standard setting to identify and respond to local health needs. Participate in projects, pilots, research and audit as and when required by the Organisation.
7. Maintain a working knowledge of, and participate at a local level in, the delivery of public health targets, local delivery plan, business plan, benchmarking and governance plans and Childrens National Service Framework targets, ensuring that practice reflects their objectives.
8. Responsible for care plans/programmes delegated to members of the health visiting team, providing clear measurable outcomes and developing systems to review the effectiveness of care. Maintain communication through Healthy Child Meetings allocating work to appropriate professionals.
9. Work in partnership with families and other agencies to promote and support a healthy lifestyle and positive parenting. Develop, deliver and evaluate programmes of education and support to targeted individuals and groups within the community.
10. Provide safe and competent advice for individual clients receiving care for a condition for which the Health Visitor takes clinical responsibility. Prescribe from the Nurse Prescribers Formulary for District Nurses and Health Visitors, from the Nurse Prescribers Extended Formulary or to act as a supplementary prescriber, where appropriate qualifications have been achieved.
11. Investigate and report complaints and incidents at a team level (as appropriate) and in accordance with the Organisations complaints and incident reporting policies and complete risk assessment.
12. Offer advice, guidance and support to children and families to develop good practice and publicise the available areas of assistance.
13. Understand, uphold and promote the aims of the councils equality, diversity and inclusion policies; health, safety and wellbeing of self and others; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.
Contacts & Relationships
Communicate in person, face-to-face, in writing and, where appropriate, electronically with all the above contacts.
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Further information specific to this job
The successful candidate has a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of the children and young people they are responsible for or come into contact with.
Somerset County Council is subject to Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English will be an essential requirement for customer-facing roles.
This job requires a criminal background check (DBS) via the disclosure procedure.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. The UK Visas and Immigration department requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (opens in a new window). From 6 April 2017, Tier 2 skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal Records Checks For Overseas Applicants (opens in a new window).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Somerset County Council
Eastland Road
Yeovil
Somerset
BA21 4ET
Website Content Administrator
Location: Somerton, Somerset
Salary: £13,000 - £18,000 per annum
About the Company:
Bentham Ltd are a well-established multi brand ecommerce technology goods supplier. Serving businesses, public sector, education, and private customers with everything from Printer Ink to PCs!
We are looking to develop a dedicated inhouse marketing & content team. We need an enthusiastic, committed, and creative content administrator. Your role will be to maintain and update the content of our websites. We run 3 separate brands, specialising in different sectors and product ranges, but sharing some elements of content.
Website Content Administrator Responsibilities:
•Banner and Menu Changes
•On site SEO optimisation
•Adding new products; delisting products
•Updating Images & Cross Sell Links
•Tagging and amending tags
•Auditing the website within guidelines
•Updating products with new content
•Assistance to implement new developments.
Website Content Administrator Requirements:
•Ability to work autonomously, creating new content listings including sales copy as they are confirmed to a high standard and submitting them for approval.
•Exhibit attention to detail, and an appreciation for technical product specific images.
•To have a flair for writing engaging sales copy for just about any product you might imagine! Keeping content relevant, engaging, and informative. Whilst remaining on brand!
•You will be working with the Marketing and Sales Manager, along with purchasing to ensure we have the most up to date, and accurate online listing information.
•High level of computer competency including Experience with Excel. Experience with BigCommerce SaaS ecommerce platform & SEO thory would be advantageous.
•Ability to start quickly! Once finalised we will be looking to have the right candidate start as soon as possible.
Website Content Administrator Benefits:
•Position Full-Time, Permanent
•£13,000 - £18,000 per annum.
•20 Days Holiday per year plus bank holidays.
•Private Health Care Scheme after 6 months
If you think that you are suitable for this Website Content Administrator role, please apply now!
1st Stage Interviews will be via phone call, with 2nd Stage via Zoom Video Call. Position is an Office Based Immediate start in a COVID Safe Office environment NOT open to the public.
This is your opportunity to enjoy working in a traditional family practice, with a friendly, supportive team, who are forward thinking and enthusiastic.
Inspired by GP's behind closed doors?
GSOH?
Looks not important.
Want to work in a fun, happy, resilient friendly team then...
Applications are invited for a GP Partner in our friendly country practice situated in West Dorset, close to the stunning Jurassic coastline.
We are well supported with strong relationships with the community primary care team including a community rehabilitation team, community matron, district nurses, and an integrated care nurse practitioner.
Our practice, and its location, lends itself to a wonderful quality of life. Come and see!
Currently 2 GP partners, 1 Retainer GP
List size 5700
Dispensing practice
7 Weeks holiday
Practice Nurses x2 / HCA x2
Fully computerised (System One)
Consistently high QOF achievement
Local Community Hospital
No Out of Hours responsibility
Job summary and scope
The GP partner is responsible for operational and strategic decision-making and management, and providing
This will include, but is not limited to, leadership and recruitment, development of services, patient
Key responsibilities clinical
Caring for patientsCommunication with patients
Delivering high-quality services
Key responsibilities non-clinical
Management and leadership
Practice-related duties
Other important aspects of the role
Maintaining confidentiality
The GP partner will, as an integral part of and in the course of carrying out his/her role, have access to confidential and sometimes sensitive information relating to patients, carers and family members, as well as similar information about colleagues. The GP partner will also have access to confidential commercial information about the practice and its business.
All such information, in whatever format and howsoever made available, must be treated with the strictest confidence. All such information held both within and outside of the practice will be shared only as necessary, and in accordance with the practices confidentiality/data-sharing policies, and in line with data protection legislation and the Freedom of Information Act.
Equality and diversity
The GP partner will comply with and actively promote the practices own equality and diversity policy, and legislation relating to equality and diversity, including (but not limited to):
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
01308861938
Barton House
Beaminster
Dorset
DT8 3EQ
Our Organisation
Pearson VUE (pearsonvue.com) has been a pioneer in the computer-based testing industry for decades, delivering more than 15 million certification and licensure exams annually in every industry from academia and admissions to IT and healthcare. We are the global leaders in developing and delivering high-stakes exams via the world's most comprehensive network of nearly 20,000 Test Centres in 180 countries. Our leadership in the assessment industry is a result of our collaborative partnerships with a broad range of clients, from leading technology firms to government and regulatory agencies.
Pearson VUE is a business of Pearson, the world's leading learning company with global-reach and market-leading businesses and listed on both the London and New York Stock Exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). Pearson VUE is featured on The Forbes list of Best Employers and The Stonewall Top 100 Employers list, and we are recognised in the Best Employers for Diversity 2019 awards.
We are proud to offer an exceptional work environment where you can enjoy job satisfaction and we are now hiring for a Test Centre Administrator to join our successful team in Yeovil.
Your Opportunity
· This is a 12 month fixed term contract position.
· You will be required to work a minimum of 10.5 hours per week
· The pay rate is £9.30 per hour, paid to you at the end of every month.
When you join us as Test Centre Administrator, you can look forward to working as an important part of our worldwide and life-changing organisation, along with our talented, motivated colleagues who all share our passion for helping customers throughout their learning and assessment journey.
This is a truly exciting opportunity as you’ll be responsible for supporting many different types of interesting and unique test-taking candidates visiting our Pearson VUE Test Centres to complete one of our exams/tests. The Test Centre Administrator is responsible for providing a secure exam/test delivery whilst offering an exceptional customer service in a comfortable, friendly environment.
Your Health, Safety & Wellbeing during COVID-19
As a responsible employer, at Pearson VUE we take the health, safety and wellbeing of our colleagues and test-taking candidates very seriously. At our company-owned test centres, we are following recommendations from the Department of Health and Social Care and World Health Organization for preventing the spread of COVID-19 and protecting test candidates and our staff. Per the recommendations from global health organisations, we are implementing a strict cleaning regimen, which includes providing hand sanitizer to test-taking candidates upon entering the test centre and sanitizing the surface and equipment of each workstation after the end of every appointment. Any equipment used during the check-in process is also sanitized after every use. We are also implementing social distancing guidelines, which suggest two metres of space between individuals. Test centres may need to limit workstation availability to ensure that a safe distance can be maintained between candidates. We will continue to:
· Make hand sanitizer available in the waiting area and prior to entering the testing room.
· Increase our cleaning and disinfecting regimens in between all testing appointments.
· Provide tissues to candidates upon arrival and permit candidates to wear a mask or disposable gloves if they choose.
· Remind candidates to wash their hands or utilize hand sanitizer upon arrival at the test centre.
Your Responsibilities
In this important position, you will be required to:
· Welcome, greet and check-in customers/test-taking candidates.
· Comply with all exam testing security and procedures and follow company policies using careful judgment.
· Verify customer/candidate personal identification documents and explain the exam testing process/rules.
· Proctor / invigilate candidates while they are completing their exam/test.
· Troubleshoot with internal departments, such as our IT department to fix any technical issues in the Test Centre.
· Some housekeeping duties such as vacuuming floors and sanitizing keyboards/workstations after each candidate has finished their exam/test.
This is a fantastic opportunity for you to gain experience working with our diverse professional teams and you’ll have the opportunity to feedback to your Manager, suggesting ways we can improve to avoid any customer issues from happening again. Our ideal applicant will be a true team-player with the availability to work a variety of shifts any day Monday through Sunday. Test Centres are open early in the morning, late at night and weekends, therefore we require a colleague who is flexible.
Our Successful Applicant
This is a wonderful opportunity for you to help people during a very important event in their lives whilst protecting our Pearson VUE exams/test process, therefore we are looking for a friendly and professional team-player with school qualifications in English and Maths. It would be an advantage to have some experience of working with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel and Outlook).
You must be flexible to work different days and times and comfortable in a quiet testing environment, with excellent attention to detail, monitoring for restricted behaviour such as whispering and notice details from a distance. You should be able to sit for long periods of time and escort candidates to and from exam/testing room.
Our Recruitment Process
This is an essential role so please apply now! Complete and submit your application as soon as possible directly on our Pearson Careers website. We are reviewing applications every day and interviews are being scheduled right now, therefore we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.
Wishing you the very best of success with your application!
***IMPORTANT INFORMATION - PLEASE READ CAREFULLY***
Before applying for this position, please ensure that you read the guidance document ‘Applying for a Career with Dorset CCG’ available in the ‘Documents’ section below. This advert may be closed at any time prior to the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received and therefore you are encouraged to submit your application as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. Once your application form has been submitted you will receive an automatic notification from NHS Jobs to confirm that your application has been successfully received by us. All further communication from us regarding your application will be sent via your NHS Jobs account; therefore you should ensure that you regularly check your NHS Jobs account and your emails following your application. We will contact all candidates to confirm the outcome of their application.
Patient Safety and Risk Support Officer
Band 4 – Part time (30 hours/week)- Vespasian House/ remote working
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual to join the Patient Safety and Risk team within the Nursing and Quality Directorate at NHS Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group.
Well-developed administrative and organisational skills are essential; additionally, current IT skills are vital, with a good working knowledge of Microsoft Outlook, Word, Power Point and Excel.
The role requires excellent time management and communication skills and an adaptable and collaborative approach to producing work within the required time scales. Applicants must also possess a professional manner incorporating confidence, politeness, assertiveness and diplomacy, demonstrate exceptional attention to detail, be able to work autonomously and prioritise their workload to meet deadlines. The post holder will be fully supported by colleagues within the Patient Safety and Risk team, whilst having responsibility for the delivery of their designated workload.
The successful candidate will ideally have previous experience in the NHS, however this is not essential. Experience of working to Standard Operating Procedures and the use of electronic incident management systems is also preferable.
Due to the nature of the role, the post holder will be exposed on a frequent, indirect basis to emotional and distressing circumstances.
This role is usually based at Vespasian House in Dorchester, but due to the current climate, the team is working remotely, with full IT equipment provided. The required hours are 30 hours/week – this can be worked over four days or five days.
Shortlisting: 22nd/23rd March
Interview: 30/31st March
For further information, please contact Natasha Sage:
T: 01305 213528
E: natasha.sage@dorsetccg.nhs.uk
Our Mission
Using our clinical understanding, we strive to lead continuous improvements to health and care services in Dorset. Our key mission is to support people in Dorset to lead healthier lives, for longer.
This mission sets out our ultimate purpose. It defines what we must aim to achieve every day, through every decision and every interaction we have as an organisation. It also incorporates our vision statement. Our mission statement is explained as follows:
As a clinical commissioning group we have a responsibility as leaders within the health economy. Our unique position as clinicians also allows us to view things differently.
We already have an excellent health service in Dorset but, excellent services can still, and must, be improved to reflect a continually changing economy and society. By using our clinical understanding and different perspective we can drive continuous improvements, not just in health care but across all services within Dorset.
We have exciting opportunities within the Integrated Urgent Care Service to recruit Driver/Operational Assistants based at our Bridgwater Treatment Centre.
This position attracts a base hourly rate of £8.82 and you will also receive the following enhancements:
£0.55 per hour for hours worked weekdays between 18.00 and 23.00 hours
£1.20 per hour for hours worked between 23.00 and 08.00 hours and weekends.
A training rate will also be applicable.
Over a four week rolling rota the successful candidates will be contracted to work set hours per week and cover both weekdays and weekends, evenings and overnight. There may be opportunities to pick up extra sessions during weekday evenings and weekends (at appropriate role / shift pay rates) to cover for annual leave and sickness.
Please see attached sheet for the rotas available.
The non-clinical role requires you to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team speaking to patients, carers and healthcare professionals who require urgent healthcare advice and support during the out of hours period.
You are required to have excellent logistical and organisational skills in order to ensure the co-ordination of workload within the Locality.
Roles involve:
Administration / receptionist-type duties, such as booking patients in on the computer system
Liaising with our Clinical Assessment Centre, Doctors and Nurses to ensure the smooth running of the service
Driving company vehicles to transport GPs and equipment to patients' homes
Checking drugs stock
Other similar duties.
Candidates must be flexible and able to travel to the place of work during the evenings and weekends.
If you have an excellent telephone manner, accurate record keeping, outstanding customer service skills, good IT knowledge and would like to work as part of the team, this job may be for you.
Benefits of working for us include:
22 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays)
NHS Pension
Cycle to work scheme
1 Paid Volunteering day per year
Access to a free 24 hour Employee Assistance Programme
Discounts at Retailers via Perkbox
Devon Doctors has been delivering urgent primary care in Devon to an exceptional standard for twenty two years. Our sister companies, Access Health, Somerset OOH and Access Dental also offer a range of dentistry and primary care services across the Peninsula.
We are committed to being an inclusive employer with a diverse workforce. We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds, cultures and experiences to contribute to the diversity of our organisation.
The post holder is a key member of the Treatment Centre (TC) operational team working with the duty clinician/s to ensure that face-to-face and / or telephone consultations are undertaken promptly. The post holder will give general administrative support throughout their period of duty when in the TC (and where it is a dual role) the Mobile; liaising with others within the organisation to ensure that the needs of the patients are met in line with the Putting Patient First ethos of the organisation.
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.
Devon Doctors
Bower Lane
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA64GU
https://www.devondoctors.co.uk/
Are you looking for that next step to develop your career and use your clinical skills for the benefit of patients? Have you considered a lifestyle in the South West with its beautiful coastline, stunning countryside and mix of vibrant cities, towns and villages?
We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to join the CLICK Primary Care Network (PCN). Our PCN cares for a population of over 48,000 people in Somerset covering the areas of Chard, Ilminster and Langport.
Although the Primary Care Network is new, the 7 practices involved have a history of working together as a Federation and recently participated in NHS Englands Clinical Pharmacists in General Practice programme. As a Federation, our multidisciplinary team were nominated as finalists for the Excellence in Primary Care NHS70 Parliamentary Awards 2018.
This role is pivotal to improving quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice. Ideallywill be a prescriber or completing their training to become a prescriber and will work alongside general practice teams.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in patient facing roles to clinically assess and treat patients, using your expert knowledge of medicines to add value to and improve patient care and patient outcomes. See the job description and person specification for more details.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the start of a revolution in primary care, changing how we do things with a new team of experienced clinicians possessing different skills and working collaboratively with our GPs to provide care centred on meeting the needs of our patients across practice boundaries. Join us on our journey and help us shape the next 5 years.
CLICK PCN consists of seven GP Practices: Chard: Essex House, Springmead and Tawstock; Langport; Ilminster: The Meadows, Summervale and Churchview and together our dedicated teams care for around 48,442 patients. We are a friendly, forward-looking PCN who values the work-life balance we are able to provide allowing us to enjoy the beautiful countryside of Somerset. We are looking for self-starters who are able to work well as part of a team as well as on their own initiative. The ability to work well under pressure is also an important consideration for any successful candidate If you are a positive, confident and organised individual who adopts a flexible can do attitude to your work coupled with a focus on high quality service then one of these roles within a fast-paced and continuously developing environment could be just right for you.
The post holder will work within their clinical competencies as part of a multi-disciplinary team to provide expertise in clinical medicines management, provide face to face structured medication reviews, manage long term conditions, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s) that make up the PCN.
The post holder will perform face to face medication review of patients with polypharmacy especially for older people, people in residential care homes and those with multiple co-morbidities. The post holder will provide leadership on quality improvement and clinical audit and well as managing some aspects of the Quality and Outcomes Framework and the development and implementation of the Network Service Specifications from 2020 and 2021.
The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to manage repeat prescription authorisations and reauthorisation, acute prescription request, management of medicines on transfer of care and systems for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines management while addressing both the public health and social care needs of patients in the GP practice(s).
This role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver an excellent service within general practice.
The post holder will be a prescriber or completing their training to become a prescriber and will work alongside the general practice teams.
Key relationships:
The patients, Doctors, prescribers and practice teams within the Primary Care Network
Somerset CCG Practice Support Pharmacists and Medicines Management Team
Local Community Pharmacists
Other professionals, other NHS/private organisations eg CCG and the general public
Key duties and responsibilities
1. Patient facing medicines support
Hold clinics for patients requiring facetoface structured medication reviews i.e. a review of the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicine taking. Provide telephone support for patients with questions, queries and concerns about their medicines.
2. Medication Review
Undertake structured medication reviews with patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests.
3. Risk Stratification
Design, develop and implementation of computer searches to identify cohorts of patients at high risk of harm from medicines. Responsibility for management of risk stratification tools on behalf of the practice. Work with patients and the primary care team to minimise risks through medicines optimisation.
4. Long-term condition clinics
See patients in multimorbidity clinics and in partnership with primary healthcare colleagues and implement improvements to patients medicines, including de-prescribing. Manage own case load, run own long-term condition clinics where responsible for prescribing as an independent prescriber for conditions where medicines have a large component (e.g. medicine optimisation for stable angina symptom control, warfarin monitoring and dose adjustment for patients requiring longterm anticoagulants). Review the ongoing need for each medicine, a review of monitoring needs and an opportunity to support patients with their medicines taking.
5. Unplanned Hospital Admissions
Devise and implement practice searches to identify cohorts of patients most likely to be at risk of an unplanned admission and readmissions from medicines. Work with case managers, multidisciplinary (health and social care) review teams, hospital colleagues and virtual ward teams to manage medicines-related risk for readmission and patient harm. Put in place changes to reduce the prescribing of these medicines to high-risk patient groups.
6. Repeat Prescribing
Produce and implement a practice repeat prescribing policy. Manage the repeat prescribing reauthorisation process by reviewing patient requests for repeat prescriptions and reviewing medicines reaching review dates; make necessary changes as an independent prescriber, and ensure patients are booked in for necessary monitoring tests where required.
7. Triage
Ensure that patients are referred to the appropriate clinician for the appropriate level of care within an appropriate period of time e.g. pathology results, common/minor ailments, acute conditions, long term conditions.
8. Medicines Safety and Quality Improvement
Identify and provide leadership on areas of prescribing requiring improvement. Conduct own audits and improvement projects and work with colleagues. Present results and provide leadership on suggested change. Demonstrate continuous QI activity focused upon prescribing safety as specified in the QOF guidance. This work for example might include the PINCER tool. Contribute to national and local research initiatives.
9. Care home medication reviews
Manage own caseload of care home residents. Undertake clinical medication reviews with patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy and implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and order relevant monitoring tests. Work with care home staff to improve safety of medicines ordering and administration.
10. Domiciliary clinical medication reviews
Manage own caseload of vulnerable housebound patients at risk of hospital admission and harm from poor use of medicines. Implement own prescribing changes (as an independent prescriber) and ordering of monitoring tests. Attend and refer patients to multidisciplinary case conferences.
11. Service development
Develop and manage new services that are built around new medicines or NICE guidance, where new medicine/recommendations allow the development of a new care pathway (e.g. new oral anticoagulants for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation.)
12. Care Quality Commission
Provide leadership to the practice manager and GPs to ensure the practice is compliant with CQC standards where medicines are involved.
13. Population and Public Health
To devise and manage population and public health campaigns to run within the network. To provide specialist knowledge on immunisation programmes.
14. Cost saving programmes
Make recommendations for, and manage pharmacy technicians to, make changes to medicines (switches) designed to save on medicine costs where a medicine or product with lower acquisition cost is now available.
15. Medicine information to practice staff and patients
Answer all medicinerelated enquiries from GPs, other practice staff and patients with queries about medicines. Suggesting and recommending solutions. Provide follow up for patients to monitor the effect of any changes.
16. Information management
Analyse, interpret and present medicines data to highlight issues and risks to support decision making.
17. Training
Provide education and training to primary healthcare team on therapeutics and medicines optimisation. Provide training to visiting medical, nursing and other healthcare students where appropriate.
18. Management of medicines at discharge from hospital
To reconcile medicines following discharge from hospitals, intermediate care and into care homes, including identifying and rectifying unexplained changes, manage these changes without referral to a GP, perform a clinical medication review, produce a post discharge medicines care plan including dose titration and booking of follow up tests and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge and working with patients and community pharmacists to ensure patients receive the medicines they need post discharge.
Set up and manage systems to ensure continuity of medicines supply to high-risk groups of patients (e.g. those with medicine compliance aids or those in care homes).
Work in partnership with hospital colleagues (e.g. care of the elderly doctors and clinical pharmacists) to proactively manage patients at high risk of medicine related problems before they are discharged to ensure continuity of care.
19. Implementation of local and national guidelines and formulary recommendations
Provide appropriate advice to practices prescribing against the local health communitys RAG list for medicines that should be prescribed by hospital doctors (red drugs) or subject to shared care (amber drugs). Liaise directly with hospital colleagues where prescribing needs to be returned to specialists. Suggest and develop computer decision support tools to help remind prescribers about the agreed formulary choice and local recommendations. Provide newsletters on important prescribing messages to improve prescribers knowledge and work with the team to develop and implement other techniques known to influence implementation of evidence such as audit and feedback.
20. Medicines safety
Horizon scan to identify national and local policy and guidance that affects patient safety through the use of medicines, including MHRA alerts, product withdrawals and emerging evidence from clinical trials. Manage the process of implementing changes to medicines and guidance for practitioners.
21. Development and Management of the Primary Care Network Pharmacy Team
In conjunction with the Clinical Director and PCN Manager, develop and recruit a PCN Pharmacy Team taking account of skill mix requirements and financial constraints. As Line Manager to the team, undertake supervision and management of the team including training and development needs, annual appraisals, rota and other issues as arise taking account of PCN and practice policies.
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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Langport Surgery
North Street
Langport
Somerset
TA10 9RH
Creech Medical Centre
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is currently looking for salaried GP’s to join Creech Medical Centre. We are located in the Village of Creech St Michael, 3 miles east of Taunton. Our mission is to provide the local community with an excellent level of primary care services, that are sustainable and appropriate, delivered in a safe environment by a well led and responsive healthcare team. You will be joining a supportive team of GPs, practice nurses, community psychiatric nurse, MSK practitioner, wellbeing advisor, midwife, district nurse, paramedic practitioners, and practice staff.
We can offer you flexible working options up to 8 full time GP sessions working across local practices, competitive remuneration package, and opportunities for cross working and joint training, the opportunity to develop specialist skills, along with the opportunity to have the support of a larger organization to develop your career.
Our practice is currently rated Good by the CQC, we are the only Trust to offer Primary Care, Mental Health and Acute services offering you a chance to build a portfolio career. We offer a supportive and collaborative team environment, where we encourage learning, development and personal growth.
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust is the first NHS trust on the English mainland to provide community, mental health and acute hospital services. We work with health and social care partners in Somerset to ensure that we deliver outstanding services that meet the needs of our population.
Our trust was formed on 1 April 2020 when Somerset Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust merged. We provide community and mental health services across the whole of Somerset and acute hospital services in the north, west and centre of the county and beyond.
Location
Straddled between areas of outstanding natural beauty and the idyllic rolling hills of Exmoor, featuring national hotspots for cycling, surfing, and climbing such as Cheddar Gorge, there’s plenty to keep you occupied alongside the abundance of music festivals and local traditions. Somerset offers you the chance to live near some of the UK’s most desirable locations; from the beaches in North Devon and Cornwall, to the cosmopolitan centres of Bristol, Bath and Exeter, whilst also being less than 2 hours from London. The County town of Taunton has diverse shopping, restaurants, and regularly hosts international music and sporting fixtures.
The South West of England is a highly desirable place to live. Compared to other regions, house prices in the area are quite reasonable. Rural properties in many of the pretty villages in South Somerset and North Dorset are within easy commute to the hospital. Many properties have land or large gardens attached.
If you’ve got family commitments, or are looking to settle down, Somerset offers some of the best schools in the country ranging from Public institutions such as Millfield, Queens College, Taunton School, Kings College, Wellington, and Blundell’s, to award winning state schools such as Richard Huish College which has been ranked in the top 10 of A-level providers nationally for the last eight years, through to secondary’s ranking in the top 5% nationally such as The Castle school in Taunton.
For further information:
Please contact Dominique Pearson-Smith, Practice Manager dominique.pearson-smith@nhs.net
or Nandini Mcculloch – Admin Manager nandini.mcculloch1@nhs.net
If you would like to discuss the application process for this role please contact Jordan Pollard, Medical Recruitment Consultant on 07765898212 or Jordan.Pollard@somersetft.nhs.uk
If you are successful for interview, you will be required to bring ID, proof of essential qualifications / relevant documents with you (More details will follow)
Our values are simple: Outstanding Care, Working Together, Listening and Leading
We recognise that our staff are our most valuable resource, we are proud of the excellent levels of service our Trust provides to our service users and the dedication and conscientious of our staff. With this in mind, we offer a range of staff benefits - please visit our website.
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Job Type
Full Time
Posted
6 days ago
Somerset Public Health Nursing Team is delighted to offer the opportunity to join one of our dynamic Health Visiting Teams in South Somerset, with one 37 hour post available in Yeovil.
The Health Visitor service comprises of a skill mix team that deliver core and targeted health input through the Healthy child programme 0-5 years aged children and their families. You will be part of a busy team, working alongside Health Visitors, Assistant Practitioners, administrators and school nurses.
This is an exciting opportunity for registered nurses who hold the Specialist Public Health Nurse in Health Visiting qualification.
You will need to:
You must be an NMC registered Nurse or Midwife with SCPHN qualification with an interest of addressing the health needs of children aged 0-19 years and their families.
Applicants must have a full valid driving licence and have access to a car for work. If necessary, adjustments can be considered in line with the Equality Act 2010.
We are proud to offer an environment that is supportive and rewarding, working as part of a team who are passionate about the work they do to improve the lives of people in Somerset. We offer great training and development opportunities, with supportive management. As well as this, we have some fantastic employee benefits available:
Job Summary
1. Responsible for ensuring the co-ordination and delivery of skilled, effective care to promote positive health and respond to identified, individual client and population/community needs. This will reflect the prime objective of tackling disadvantage and inequality to impact on the health divide and effectively participate in the mainstream development of Early Help Services to fully embrace the ethos of integrated care delivery.
2. Provide professional and team leadership to manage a defined team delivering care to a geographical caseload/population. Undertake an ongoing community health needs profile of the caseload identifying individual, family and community needs affecting health and social well-being, including Emotional Health Screening, assessing the need for specific services and ensuring that the appropriate level of interaction is provided and co-ordinated.
3. Work with vulnerable children and families in line with national and local policies relating to safeguarding children and provide specialist support and advice to children, families and schools regarding the health and wellbeing needs of children.
4. Work in partnership with other agencies, particularly health services, education and social care. Manage and co-ordinate programmes of intervention for a caseload made up of individual children and families, to plan, implement, monitor and review programmes of intervention based on identified individual health and social needs.
Key Responsibilities
5. Identify those children who are vulnerable and/or at risk from harm. Respond appropriately to incidents of actual or suspected abuse and to ensure that child protection practice is in line with local and national guidelines and policies and prioritise court reports and Child Protection documentation.
6. Attend professionally related working groups as appropriate, which are involved in developing and agreeing local policies, protocols and standard setting to identify and respond to local health needs. Participate in projects, pilots, research and audit as and when required by the Organisation.
7. Maintain a working knowledge of, and participate at a local level in, the delivery of public health targets, local delivery plan, business plan, benchmarking and governance plans and Childrens National Service Framework targets, ensuring that practice reflects their objectives.
8. Responsible for care plans/programmes delegated to members of the health visiting team, providing clear measurable outcomes and developing systems to review the effectiveness of care. Maintain communication through Healthy Child Meetings allocating work to appropriate professionals.
9. Work in partnership with families and other agencies to promote and support a healthy lifestyle and positive parenting. Develop, deliver and evaluate programmes of education and support to targeted individuals and groups within the community.
10. Provide safe and competent advice for individual clients receiving care for a condition for which the Health Visitor takes clinical responsibility. Prescribe from the Nurse Prescribers Formulary for District Nurses and Health Visitors, from the Nurse Prescribers Extended Formulary or to act as a supplementary prescriber, where appropriate qualifications have been achieved.
11. Investigate and report complaints and incidents at a team level (as appropriate) and in accordance with the Organisations complaints and incident reporting policies and complete risk assessment.
12. Offer advice, guidance and support to children and families to develop good practice and publicise the available areas of assistance.
13. Understand, uphold and promote the aims of the councils equality, diversity and inclusion policies; health, safety and wellbeing of self and others; and Organisational values in everything you do. Equality and Diversity practice covers both interaction with staff, service users and communities and includes challenging discrimination and promoting equality of opportunity for all.
Contacts & Relationships
Communicate in person, face-to-face, in writing and, where appropriate, electronically with all the above contacts.
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Further information specific to this job
The successful candidate has a responsibility for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of the children and young people they are responsible for or come into contact with.
Somerset County Council is subject to Part 7 of the Immigration Act (2016) and therefore the ability to speak fluent English will be an essential requirement for customer-facing roles.
This job requires a criminal background check (DBS) via the disclosure procedure.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. The UK Visas and Immigration department requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (opens in a new window). From 6 April 2017, Tier 2 skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal Records Checks For Overseas Applicants (opens in a new window).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Somerset County Council
Eastland Road
Yeovil
Somerset
BA21 4ET