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Physician Associate
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Horley, United Kingdom Townhill Medical Practice Full time**JOB DESCRIPTION** **Title**: **Physician Associate** **Salary**: **Responsible to**: **Lead Clinician** **Accountable to**: **PCN Manager** **1. Job Role/Purpose**: - The post holder will work collaboratively with other members of the Primary Care Team and within the policies and procedures of Modality Partnership and will have the following duties...
Physician Associate
3 months ago
Horley, Surrey, United Kingdom
Townhill Medical Practice
Full time
JOB DESCRIPTION
Title:
Physician Associate
Salary:
Responsible to:
Lead Clinician
Accountable to:
PCN Manager
1.
Job Role/Purpose:
- The post holder will work collaboratively with other members of the Primary Care Team and within the policies and procedures of Modality Partnership and will have the following duties and responsibilities under the broad headings below
2.
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
- Participate in all treatment and preventative healthcare services in the practice as delegated and agreed by the supervising clinicians(s)
- Deliver clinical care according to NSF, NICE guidelines and evidencebased care
- Consult and refer patients to other appropriate healthcare professionals both internally and externally as required
- Interview patients, take medical histories, perform physical examinations, analyse, diagnose and explain medical problems during surgery consultations and home visits
- Recommend and explain appropriate diagnostic tests and treatment
- Request and interpret results of laboratory investigations when necessary
- Instruct and educate patients in preventative health care
- Conduct telephone consultations which may involve discussing the result and implications of laboratory investigations with patients as well as dealing appropriately with routine and emergency problems
- Fully document all aspects of patient care and complete all required paperwork for legal and administrative purposes
- Contribute to the clinical development of the practice by developing a special interest and to help establish appropriate systems to manage common chronic medical conditions, ensuring compliance with NSF guidelines, QOF and other quality initiatives as required
- Participate fully in the clinicians' duty rota including the provision of home visits when appropriate.
Delivering a quality service
- Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the NCCPA
- Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedure
- Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
- Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
- Utilise the audit cycle as a means of evaluating the quality of the work of self and the team, implementing improvements where required
- In partnership with other clinical teams, collaborate on improving the quality of health care responding to local and national policies and initiatives as appropriate
- Evaluate patients' response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care
- Support and participate in shared learning across the practice and wider organisation
- Use a structured framework (eg rootcause analysis) to manage, review and identify learning from patient complaints, clinical incidents and nearmiss events
- Assess the impact of policy implementation on care delivery
Leadership - personal and people development
- Ensure continuing education, training and development is undertaken to meet clinical governance guidelines for Continuing Professional Development and a Personal Development Plan. To ensure personal development also meets the needs of Practice Development where appropriate
- Keep up to date with relevant medical research and evidencebased medical practice by attending continuing education courses and professional meetings, reading journals etc.
- Take the national recertification exam every six years in accordance with the NCCPA (National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants)
- Perform a variety of research and analysis tasks associated with improvement of clinical care, medical diagnosis and treatment where appropriate using the following means:
- Audit of clinical practice
- Review of relevant literature
- Research unusual symptoms and treatment options through consultation with General Practitioners, Physicians and other specialists
- Assist in clinical instruction and supervision of medical and nursing students as well other learners that may periodically be attached to the practice, including the educational development and mentoring of UKtrained Physician Assistants
- Attend regular multidisciplinary meetings organised by the Practice in order to discuss and learn from recent significant events relating to clinical practice occurring within the Practice and in order to keep uptodate with all practice issues and developments, clinical commissioning and other relevant local and national arrangements and to discuss specific issues with relevant colleagues regularly
- Attend regular educational meetings organised by the practice in order to update clinical knowledge, practice policy and guidelines and disseminate other useful information relevant to the provision of adequate healthcare for patients
- Regularly reflect on own practice (and keep a record of lea
