Physician Associate (Home Visiting Service) and overflow clinic

NHS Jobs; Barnsley; Hybrid; GBP 36,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

NHS Jobs in Barnsley is seeking a Physician Associate to support a home visiting service under GP supervision, conducting focused history taking, clinical assessments and developing management plans in a community setting.

You will work with the primary care team to deliver patient-centred care, supporting clinics for conditions such as COPD, diabetes and family planning, and ensure safe handover and integration with social care networks. The role emphasises evidence-based practice and audits.

Qualifications

• Provide care to patients via home visiting service under GP supervision.
• Carry out focused history taking, physical examinations and establish management plans.
• Work with the primary care team to deliver patient-centred care and follow approved protocols.
• Participate in clinical audits, significant event reviews and other quality improvement tasks.

Responsibilities

• Provide care to patients via home visiting service.
• Provide first point of contact care with history taking and clinical assessment to form diagnoses and management plans.
• Support management of patients with conditions through clinics such as family planning, COPD, diabetes, anticoagulation (as trained).
• Refer patients to other services using appropriate referral pathways.
• Ensure safe handover of care within and outside the practice.

Job description

Physician Associate (Home Visiting Service) and overflow clinic

JOB PURPOSE Under the supervision of a GP, provide care for the presenting patient including focused history taking, clinical assessment, diagnoses, treatment, and evaluation of care within a home visiting setting. Work collaboratively with the healthcare team and its member practices to meet the needs of the patients, supporting delivery of appropriate care. Provide a home visiting service with the support and supervision of experienced GPs, implementing agreed management plans and following approved protocols. The job description and person specification are an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The job holder will carry out any other duties as may reasonable be required by their line manager.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES

• To undertake your work and provide care to patients via our home visiting service.
• Provide first point of contact care for patients presenting with medical problems by utilising history-taking, physical examinations, and clinical decision-making skills to establish a working diagnosis and management plan in partnership with the patient (and their carers where applicable).
• Support the management of patients conditions through offering specialised clinics following appropriate training including (but not limited to) family planning, 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 wording with the wider primary care multi-disciplinary team and social care networks.
• Utilise clinical guidelines and promote evidence-based practice and partake in clinical audits, significant event reviews and other research and analysis tasks.
• Manage a clinical caseload and deal with presenting patients needs in a home visiting setting.
• Refer patients directly to other services or agencies using appropriate referral pathways.
• Ensure safe handover of care within and outside the practice as appropriate.
• Work directly with members of the practice primary health care team and support integrated patient centred care through appropriate working with wider primary care / social care networks.
• Identify community health needs and participate in the development of patient/family-centred strategies to address them.
• Contribute to the practice quality targets to consistently achieve high standards of safe, evidence-based, cost-effective patient care and service delivery.