Physician Associate

Physician Associate

Employer Coastal Medical Partnership Location New Milton Salary Depending on experience Closing date 25 Feb 2024

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Profession Contract Type Hours You need to or to save a job. At Coastal Medical Partnership we aspire to provide great quality care to our patients, and also to look after each other at work, to ensure safe and sustainable Primary Care. We border the beautiful South Coast and the equally beautiful New Forest National Park giving us huge opportunity to empower our patients to improve their health as part of their wellbeing. This is a beautiful part of the world to be a health care professional.

Under supervision of the GP in the practice, the post holder will provide care for the presenting patient from focused history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and evaluation of care. They will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care, including assessment and diagnostic skills, for patients within the service. The post holder will demonstrate critical thinking in the decision-making process. They will work collaboratively with the healthcare team to meet the needs of the patients, supporting the delivery of policy and procedures. The post holder will provide a holistic and clinical service, with support and supervision of GPs, implementing agreed management plans and following approved protocols as appropriate.

Main duties of the job

Under supervision of a GP, you will be required to:

Work clinical sessions consisting of either telephone triage appointments, face to face appointments or both. Triage incoming pathology results and documents.

Respond to medical problems presented by patients, including history taking and examination.

Provide confidence to supervising GP in your findings and in you using your clinical findings to justify the differential diagnosis. Organise investigation, treatment, and referral where appropriate.

Be confident in explaining to patients their clinical management plan and able to modify plan according to age and comorbidity. Develop consultation skills to enable shared patient practitioner decision. Be able to justify choice of medication. Able to understand the impact of comorbidities and other medications. Provide appropriate preventative health care and advice. Provide medical support as required to patients referred by nursing staff.

Adhere to the practice prescribing formulary, local and national guidelines.

Under supervision of the GPs in the practice, make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation. Record clear and contemporaneous IT based consultation notes to agreed standards. (Using GP IT Clinical recording system and agreed templates)

Attend clinical and practice meetings.

About us

Coastal Medical Partnership is an innovative and forward thinking Partnership which also represents a single Primary Care Network. We are in the unusual position of being able to work seamlessly across the network, with no inter Partnership/Practice boundaries. We aspire to provide great quality care to our patients, and also to look after each other at work, to ensure safe and sustainable Primary Care.

Job description
Job responsibilities

Under supervision of a GP, you will be required to:

Work clinical sessions consisting of either telephone triage appointments, face to face appointments or both.

Conduct home visits, acute (on the day) and chronic (holistic assessments).

Triage incoming pathology results and documents.

Act upon alerts (e.g., QOF, local enhanced services etc.) and reminders during a consultation.

Undertake surgeries during extended hours in accordance with the access needs of the practice population and the contractual obligation of the practice.

Respond to medical problems presented by patients, including history taking and examination.

Provide confidence to supervising GP in your findings and in you using your clinical findings to justify the differential diagnosis.

Organise investigation, treatment, and referral where appropriate.

Be confident in explaining to patients their clinical management plan and able to modify plan according to age and comorbidity.

Develop consultation skills to enable shared patient practitioner decision.

Be able to justify choice of medication. Able to understand the impact of comorbidities and other medications, polypharmacy) on agent choice and prognosis.

Provide appropriate preventative health care and advice.

Provide medical support as required to patients referred by nursing staff.

Adhere to the practice prescribing formulary, local and national guidelines.

Under supervision of the GPs in the practice, make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

Record clear and contemporaneous IT based consultation notes to agreed standards. (Using GP IT Clinical recording system and agreed templates)

Collect data for audit purposes.

Attend clinical and practice meetings.

Provide additional enhanced services to the practices that meet the needs of the practices' patient population and maximise the income streams to the practice.

Undertake additional training where necessary to provide these enhanced services.

Awareness of and compliance with all relevant practice policies/guidelines, e.g., prescribing, confidentiality, data protection, health and safety, annual QOF Assessment of the Practice.

Meet timescales/deadlines for audits and written returns to ensure that the Practice meets quality standards and receives the designated funding (e.g., Quarterly Enhanced Services returns, annual QOF audit etc.).

Under supervision of the GPs in the practice, make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.

To work collaboratively with other practice staff, including those who are not directly employed by the practice.

Participate in annual appraisal which will include staff multi source feedback (MSF) and patient survey.

Participate in teaching and training of medical, nursing, paramedic, and physician associate students.

Participate in and support other staff in ensuring the practice meets targets in QoF and Enhanced Services.

Supporting the practice staff and responding to requests for advice and assistance from the practice reception, secretarial and nursing staff.

In the performance of the duties outlined in this job description, the post-holder may have access to confidential information relating to patients and their carers, practice staff and other healthcare workers. They may also have access to information relating to the practice as a business organisation. All such information from any source is to be regarded as strictly confidential.

Information relating to patients, carers, colleagues, other healthcare workers or the business of the practice may only be divulged to authorised persons in accordance with the practice policies and procedures relating to confidentiality and the protection of personal and sensitive data.

This responsibility lasts in perpetuity.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Postgraduate Diploma/Master in Physician Associate from an accredited UK University. Bachelor Degree in Life Science/Biomedical/Nursing or Allied Health Science. Member of Faculty of Physician Associate Managed Voluntary Register (PAMVR). Valid national certification and re-certification every six years as stipulated by PAMVR. For USA trained candidates: Current and valid certification with the National Commission on Certification for Physician Assistants (NCCPA). Good communication and empathy skills with patients. Evidence of willingness to participate in a multi-disciplinary team environment to provide an integrated service. Ability to work as a member of a team, both through communication and sharing workload. Ability to manage high pressure situations e.g. clinical crisis. Ability to prioritise and organise workload and co-ordinate staff. Ability to integrate the care of a patient by many and various other clinical staff. Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare. Desirable
Basic, Intermediate or Advanced Life Support. Evidence of continual learning and development. Understands self (strengths and weaknesses) and impact of behaviour on others. Evidence of innovation. Ability to use word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software and internet browser. Audit and research
Desirable
Critical appraisal skills. Knowledge of Audit principles and evidence of participation in and completion of audit projects. Evidence of knowledge of research methodology. Experience
Desirable
Experience working as a Physician Associate in hospital or in a community setting. Any desirable / additional speciality specific requirements. Understanding current issues within the speciality and the future direction of the speciality. Understanding current issues within the wider NHS. Shows ability to work with and lead others across professions. Teaching and training
Desirable
Experience of and enthusiasm for clinical teaching of multi-disciplinary students and qualified staff when appropriate. Experience in mentoring students. Attendance at relevant teaching course.

Employer details
Employer name

Coastal Medical Partnership

Address

The Arnewood Practice

Avenue Road

New Milton

Hampshire

BH25 5JP

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