Physician Associate

Lisnaskea Medical Practice

PHYSICIAN ASSOCIATE

**Job Title**

Physician Associate

**Line Manager Clinical**

Dr Rachael Wright/Dr Miriam Dolan

**Line Manager Administrative**

Maria Nugent-Murphy, Practice Manager

**Accountable to**

Clinical Director, Lisnaskea CIC

**Hours per week**

37.5

**Job Summary**

The post holder is a Physician Associate (PA) who acts within their professional boundaries, working within a general practice setting within Lisnaskea Medical Practice.

The PA is a key addition to the Lisnaskea Medical Practice clinical team and will work under the mentorship of Dr R Wright/Dr M Dolan with daily support from Consultant GP on duty, contributing to acute and chronic medical care of all patients within the network.

The post holder will be an integral part of the general practice team.

The PA will independently assess diagnose and manage patients with acute and chronic medical conditions, coordinating with other primary and secondary healthcare services as appropriate. There is an expectation that the PA will attend to patients within the practices and also at their own homes or care homes and will coordinate care with other members of the practice team and external providers.

Whilst the PA role is not able to prescribe independently at present, the expectation will be to make recommendations regarding drug treatment and medication reviews.

Appropriate training and mentoring will be provided as necessary.

**Generic Responsibilities**

All staff have a duty to conform to the following:
**Equality, Diversity & Inclusion**

A good attitude and positive action towards ED&I creates and environment where all individuals are able to achieve their full potential. Creating such an environment is important for three reasons: it improves operational effectiveness, it is morally the right thing to do, and it is required by law.

**Safety, Health, Environment and Fire (SHEF)**

Lisnaskea Medical Practice is committed to supporting and promoting opportunities for staff to maintain their health, well-being and safety.

The post holder is to manage and assess risk within the areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients and monitor work areas and practices to ensure they are safe and free from hazards and conform to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.

All personnel have a duty to take reasonable care of health and safety at work for themselves, their team and others and to cooperate with employers to ensure compliance with health and safety requirements. All personnel are to comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Environmental Protection Act 1990, Environment Act 1995, Fire Precautions (workplace) Regulations 1999 and other statutory legislation.

**Confidentiality**

Lisnaskea Medical Practice is committed to maintaining an outstanding confidential service. Patients entrust and permit us to collect and retain sensitive information relating to their health and other matters pertaining to their care. They do so in confidence and have a right to expect all staff will respect their privacy and maintain confidentiality at all times.

It is essential that, if the legal requirements are to be met and the trust of our patients is to be retained, all staff protect patient information and provide a confidential service.

**Quality & Continuous Improvement (QI)**

To preserve and improve the quality of our services, all personnel are required to think not only of what they do but how they achieve it. By continually re-examining our processes, we will be able to develop and improve the overall effectiveness of the way we work.

The responsibility for this rests with everyone working within Lisnaskea Medical Practice to look for opportunities to improve quality and share good practice and to discuss, highlight and work with the team to create opportunities to improve patient care.

Lisnaskea Medical Practice continually strives to improve work processes which deliver healthcare with improved results across all areas of our service provision. We promote a culture of continuous improvement where everyone counts and staff are permitted to make suggestions and contributions to improve our service delivery and enhance patient care.

Staff should interpret national strategies and policies into local implementation strategies that are aligned to the values and culture of general practice.

All staff are to contribute to investigations and root cause analyses whilst participating in serious incident investigations and multidisciplinary case reviews.

**Induction Training**

You will be provided with a full induction programme at Lisnaskea Medical Practice.

Whilst across the healthcare system we aim to standardise this process, inevitably there will be nuances particular to each practice. In any such instance, the practice management team will support you with this.

**Learning and Development**

The effective