Physician Associate

St George's University Hospitals; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A reputable UK healthcare institution is seeking a Physician Associate to support consultants and nursing staff in the neurology department. This role involves rotating through various departments to enhance clinical skills, representing the department at meetings, and ensuring a high-quality service to patients. Candidates must have a science-related degree and be registered with the GMC.

Qualifications

• Must have graduated from a UK Physician Associate Training programme.
• Must pass the UK National Physician Associate Examination.
• Experience in acute general medicine preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert assistance to consultants and registrars.
• Rotate through different departments for diverse experience.
• Represent the department at meetings.

Skills

Clinical skills

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Science-related degree

Registration with GMC

Job description

Overview

The Physician Associate posts support a team of consultants, junior doctors and nursing staff and therapists within each department. The post holder must hold a science-related degree prior to graduating from an established UK Physician Associate Training programme, which follows the Department of Health's Competence Curriculum Framework, has successfully passed the UK National Physician Associate Examination and is registered with the Managed Voluntary Register for Physician Associates and/or GMC. Consideration will be given to appropriately qualified Physician Associates from other countries as well. This is an innovative idea to give newly qualified or more experienced Physician Associates the chance to work for 1 year or more to put into practice the knowledge and skills they have acquired in their training. Although this is a neuroscience group there is a lot of acute general medicine available to further PA training. The PAs will rotate through Stroke, Neurology and Rehabilitation. They will have Educational Supervision and an appraisal at the end of the year. The emphasis will be on ensuring the basic clinical and management skills will be put into practice but there will also be a lot of subspecialty learning available too.

Responsibilities

• To provide expert assistance to the consultant physicians and specialist registrars in the provision of a high quality service to patients in the neurology department including neurosurgery and rehabilitation
• The Physician Associate role is being developed to work alongside the department's doctors.
• The Physician Associate may be asked to rotate to different departments within neuroscience to provide a wide range of clinical experience, improve their overall skill and ability and the service they provide to the departments.
• Physician Associates will represent the department at local and external meetings as appropriate.

About the Trust

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest healthcare organisations and has recently integrated with Community Services Wandsworth. The Trust shares its main hospital site in south west London with St. George's University of London and is linked to Kingston Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences. St. George's has an established national and international reputation as a leading hospital for specialist care including neuroscience, cardiac care, stroke and cancer. We provide excellent local care to the residents of Wandsworth and regional care as both, a hyper-acute stroke unit and trauma centre. As well as acute hospital services, St. George's provides a wide variety of specialist and community hospital-based care and a full range of community services to children, adults, older people and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St George's Hospital, Tooting, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, 11 health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries, patients' homes and Wandsworth Prison. We employ 8,000 staff, have an annual income of £560m, around 1,100 beds and we serve a population of 1.3 million across south west London. We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust - being excellent, kind, responsible and respectful - and behave in a way that reflects these.