Physician Associate

**Job summary**

Full time (or part time mix) vacancy working for the Weymouth and Portland Primary Care Network (PCN) providing care for patients across the locality in a community and practice setting, practice office based. Working under the supervision of the named GP of the patients with additional support from a dedicated GP Mentor/Supervisor.

**Main duties of the job**

**About us**

Two Harbours Healthcare is a not for profit organisation led by local General Practices in Weymouth and Portland. Our goal is to work more closely together (and with stakeholders) to share expertise, resources and provide services for the NHS.

**Job description**

**Job responsibilities**
- Attending patients as first clinician or follow-up, in practices and in patients own home
- Take medical histories from patients
- Carry out physical examinations
- See patients with undifferentiated diagnoses
- Perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures
- Request and interpret diagnostic studies
- Develop and deliver appropriate treatment and management plans
- See patients with long-term chronic conditions
- Formulate differential diagnoses and management plans
- Provide health promotion and disease prevention advice for patients
- Opportunity to develop and shape this service
- Opportunity for further training, e.g. prescribing when it becomes available
- Perform any duty specifically delegated by the Federation Management as being properly the responsibility of this post.

**Person Specification**

**Experience**

**Essential**
- 12 month post-qualification experience
- Working in a healthcare setting as part of a team
- Accurate recording of data

**Desirable**
- Primary or secondary care experience

**Knowledge**

**Essential**
- Good working knowledge of primary care and the challenges facing patient care in the NHS.
- Understanding of medical terminology and knowledge of anatomy & physiology

**Desirable**
- IT GP clinical system, SystmOne

**Skills**

**Essential**
- Understanding and adherence to strict confidentiality
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal
- Good teamworking skills
- Able to analyse & extract relevant information
- Good organizational skills
- Able to use own judgement, resourcefulness and common sense
- Able to work under pressure
- Able to prioritise workload and meet deadlines

**Personal Qualities**

**Essential**
- Self-directed working using initiative
- Innovative approach
- Highly motivated
- Caring, compassionate and confident
- Calm approach, performing under pressure
- Positive attitude
- Pleasant and articulate

**Qualifications**

**Essential**
- Physician Associate Postgraduate Diploma/Masters from an accredited UK University.
- Passed the Physician Associate National Examination.
- Member of the Physician Associate Managed Voluntary
- Register (PAMVR)

**Disclosure and Barring Service Check**

**UK Registration**

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Part-time
Part-time hours: 37.5 per week

**Salary**: £43,742.00-£50,056.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- Sick pay

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 10/08/2023
Reference ID: 2HHPA