Practice Nurse

The long-established Rycote Partnership of Thame are excited to be taking on Chiltern and Brook surgeries in Watlington & Chalgrove, creating The Rycote Group. We are seeking to appoint new practice nurses to bolster our team, joining 7 that already work across the three sites. You will join an expanded MDT team alongside GPs, Nurse Practitioners, HCAs, paramedics, pharmacists and social prescribers.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced practice nurse to help shape the structure and culture of the new organisation or for a dedicated nurse looking for a new challenge.

The Rycote Group is committed to delivering the best possible care and to ensuring that patients physical, psychological and social needs are met. Our care is defined by the values that all staff share and is summed up in the term "Excellent Care by Working Together".

Being part of a team that looks after nearly 8000 patients in Watlington and Chalgrove you will also benefit from being part of the wider group that looks after approximately 22,000 patients in south Oxfordshire. The Rycote Partnership has a long history of teaching and training (or GPs and nurses) and this role offers a great opportunity to be involved in this, as well as being supported and mentored in your own professional development.

The successful applicant will ideally be an experienced practice nurse with training in the management of chronic disease(s). Additional training will be available for the right candidate.

The successful applicant will:

• Plan and provide appropriate nursing care in conjunction with other nurses, medical staff and the wider MDT team
• Carry out investigations, assess and deliver evidence based practice in accordance with practice policy and protocols
• Offer advice and health education to ensure disease treatment is complimented by health promotion
• Provide wound management including both chronic and postoperative wounds
• Record Doppler studies, measurement and fitting of compression hosiery
• Administer adult and childhood immunisations, and other injections under Patient Group Directions

Provide contraceptive advice and cervical screening

Provide travel health advice and immunisations

Undertake diagnostic, health screening, health surveillance and therapeutic interventions within a broader health promotion/public health strategy

Participate in the delivery of various chronic diseases where appropriately trained including asthma, COPD, hypertension and diabetes

Ensure that current evidence based approaches to patient care are standard practice and participate in the development of practice protocols to advance nursing roles, enhance safety and improve patient care

Provide mentorship and support to Nurse Associates and HCAs

The partnership of the new Rycote Group comprises 5 clinical partners and a managing partner. We have a supportive and non-hierarchical approach, with partners taking a full share of clinical work and an ethos of staff supporting each other. We are committed to patient-centred care and do our best to combine modern healthcare with traditional values. We offer a mix of telephone, face-to-face and online consultations bringing together the best of the old and new.

The Chiltern and Brook Surgeries (along with the Rycote Practice) are rated good by CQC and achieve some of the highest patient satisfaction scores in the region. The Rycote Group use EMIS Web and are very high QoF achievers.

There is a strong MDT, with GPs, nurses, healthcare assistants, paramedic, pharmacist and a social care support team, offering a holistic approach to looking after our patients and this appointment is designed to strengthen this team. The clinical team is assisted by excellent reception and administrative teams.

Nestled in at the foot of the Chiltern Hills, there is beautiful countryside on the doorstep, and excellent road links via the M40. Watlington is a historic market town, renowned for its thriving independent high street, and is a great place to live and work. Chalgrove is 10 minutes away and is also surrounded by picturesque scenery.

Job Summary:

• Plan and provide appropriate nursing care to patients of all ages, in conjunction with other nurses and medical staff
• Carry out investigations, assess and deliver evidence based practice in accordance with practice policy and protocols
• Offer advice and health education to ensure disease treatment is complimented by health promotion
• Maintain a safe and effective practice at all times and bring any deficits in care to the attention of the Nurse Lead so that they can be addressed
• Participate in the development of practice protocols to advance nursing roles, enhance safety and improve patient care
• Mentor and supervise HCAs
• Provide support to the wider MDT team to suppot high quality, patient-centred care to patients

Clinical Responsibilities

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate the needs of patients to include treatment, preventative care, appropriate screening and…