Physician Associate Role

4 weeks ago

Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom The Birches Medical Centre Full time

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Physician Associate to join our team at The Birches Medical Centre. As a Physician Associate, you will play a vital role in providing high-quality patient care, working closely with our experienced clinicians to deliver exceptional healthcare services.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provide first point of contact care for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, utilising history-taking, physical examinations, and clinical decision-making skills to establish a working diagnosis and management plan in partnership with the patient.
  • Support the management of patients' conditions through offering specialised clinics, following appropriate training, including family planning, cervical screening, baby checks, COPD, asthma, diabetes, and anticoagulation.
  • Provide health/disease promotion and prevention advice, alongside analysing and actioning diagnostic test results.
  • Develop integrated patient-centred care through appropriate working with the wider primary care multi-disciplinary team and social care networks.
  • Utilise clinical guidelines and promote evidence-based practice, partaking in clinical audits, significant event reviews, and other research and analysis tasks.
  • Undertake home visits when required.
  • Develop and agree a personal development plan (PDP) utilising a reflective approach to practice, operating under appropriate clinical supervision.
  • Receive referrals and directed patients from triage services and other clinicians.
  • Manage a caseload of complex patients and potential care institutions.
  • Plan, implement, and evaluate treatment/interventions for patients with acute and chronic physical and psychological conditions.
  • Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent, or emergency situations, including initiation of effective emergency care.
  • Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles and apply principles of self-care.
  • Review the latest guidance, ensuring the organisation conforms to NICE, CQC, etc.
  • Provide targeted support and proactive reviews for vulnerable, complex patients, and those at risk of admission and re-admission to secondary care.
  • Be responsive to the changing needs of patients and service provision in terms of scope and nature of clinical practice.
  • Prioritise, organise, and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality.
  • Undertake clinical responsibilities as required by the organisation within scope of practice defined by RCP/GMC.
  • Identify and be proactive in own training needs and development and as agreed with clinical mentor.
  • Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the GMC.
  • Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultations, consistent with legislation, policies, and procedures.
  • Support in the delivery of enhanced services and other service requirements on behalf of the organisation.
  • Support virtual and remote models of consultation and support, including e-consultations, telehealth, and telemedicine.
  • Participate in the management of patient complaints when requested to do so and participate in the identification of any necessary learning brought about through incidents and near-miss events.
  • Develop yourself and the role through participation in clinical supervision, training, and service redesign activities.
  • Contribute to a patient safety culture through the reporting and investigation of significant events and patient safety incidents and to undertake proactive measures to improve patient safety.
  • Actively signpost patients to the correct healthcare professional.
  • Undertake all mandatory training and induction programmes.
  • Contribute to and embrace the spectrum of clinical governance.
  • Attend a formal appraisal with your manager at least every 12 months. Once a performance/training objective has been set, progress will be reviewed on a regular basis so that new objectives can be agreed.
  • Contribute to public health campaigns (COVID-19 and flu clinics) through advice or direct care.
  • Maintain a clean, tidy, effective working area.
  • Taking medical histories and actively listening to key points of information that may be essential to accurately progress within the consultation.
  • Performing appropriate examinations, conducting an initial pre-assessment, and developing to a more complex evaluation in order to progress to diagnosing illnesses.
  • Analysing a variety of different test results with appropriate follow-up with the Clinical Team or patient themselves, applying holistic managements where appropriate.
  • Develop personal management plans to increase in practice improvements and implement next steps with the team or exclusively as required.
  • Working under the support and supervision of one of our experienced clinicians to build and achieve exceptional clinical knowledge and apply these within working hours.

What We Offer

We are a small but passionate close-knit surgery located in Kesgrave and Martlesham, both surrounded by affluent and prosperous areas on the outskirts of Ipswich. Our staff and patients are held with the utmost importance, and we strive daily to look after them to the highest possible standard. All staff from clinical to non-clinical are offered a well-balanced workload and have full access to a supportive team both in and out of their specialist area.

We are proud to be a teaching practice, hosting teaching days with highly experienced GPs for medical students from the University of East Anglia in Norwich and the University of Cambridge. Additionally, we are a GP training practice and have GP Registrars regularly working and learning as part of our team.

Person Specification

Qualifications

  • Physician Associate Managed Voluntary Register (PAMVR) or equivalent qualifications (evidence required).

Experience

  • Experience of working within Primary Care or GP Practice Specialism or extra qualifications such as long-term condition management, is desirable but not essential.
  • Other related experience, areas of expertise, and skill sets also desirable but not essential.

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