Physician’s Associate

6 months ago


London, United Kingdom Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

The Physician Associate role has been developed to work alongside the medical and nursing teams, managing patients with haematology clinical team.

You will build on your skills in clerking, assessing and examining patients gained during your Physician Associate training, present cases to more senior members of the team, initiate and interpret investigations, and recommend appropriate management/treatment. You will be expected to liaise with other professionals and specialties as required and complete necessary documentation relating to their patients. You will be supported by a team of consultants, including a specialty registrar and a dedicated supervisor, and you will be fully integrated within your clinical team. There will be opportunities for education and service development and your skills will be vital in helping us achieve our mission of continuing to provide excellent care for patients within both in a inpatient and outpatient setting.

**Job Overview**:
Our priorities in Haematology are in accordance with the Trust priorities, and these include:

- To provide planned care such as outpatient clinics and treatment delivery in the haematology day unit in a way that’s safe, efficient and responsive for our patients
- To provide excellent urgent and emergency care, on the wards and on the day unit assessment unit.
- To ensure that the research work we do translates from the bench to the bedside
- To make sure that our team have the right skills and experience through high quality multi professional training
- To be innovative in our service design, using data to drive forward change

We provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.

We have over 6,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.

We’re one of the safest and best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for - our staff say they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.

In 2020 Trust was rated by the Care Quality Commission as Outstanding in the well-led and use of resources domains and Good in the safe, effective, caring, and responsive domains. The Trust as a whole was Good, but the Chelsea site was Outstanding.

Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing around £10 million a year in our estate. We are currently spending £25 million on expanding our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and redevelopment of our children’s unit at West Middlesex - in partnership with our charity, CW+ and generous donors
- To improve the efficiency of the haematology team and support the haematology treatment pathways and clinical workload
- To assess, clerk and review patients that are attend the haematology day unit unwell or pre treatment.
- To participate, and lead where appropriate, in ward rounds
- To perform and assist with practical procedures such as venepuncture, cannulas, blood gases, urinary catheters, paracentesis, pleural procedures, lumbar punctures, and support the booking of procedures and investigations as appropriate. Potential for training in bone marrow sampling.
- To participate in multidisciplinary meetings.
- To support our medical specialty colleagues by identifying and referring suitable patients for haematology review.
- To facilitate the safe and timely discharge of haematology patients
- To contribute to the achievement and maintenance of key acute haematology performance indicators
- To act as a consistent member of the haematology team and to help in handover processes and continuity of care for our patients
- To participate in teaching and quality improvement projects - developing and embedding new and innovative practices and policies


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