Physician Associate inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
THU 28 NOV 2024
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Omnia Medical Practice in East Birmingham seeks an experienced full-time Physician Associate (PA) to enhance its urgent care services for both pediatric and adult patients. The successful applicant will join a collaborative team of four other PAs and work under the guidance of the Partners and Management Team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Conduct acute patient assessments, history taking, and clinical decision-making to establish diagnoses and management plans.
- Manage both emergency and routine consultations, including long-term condition management and follow-up work.
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary health care team to ensure integrated patient care and support the development of practice policies.
- Participate in continuing professional development (CPD) and utilize evidence-based guidelines for care delivery.
- Document patient care comprehensively and adhere to health and safety and data protection policies.
Qualifications and Skills Required:
- PG Dip in Physician Associate Studies from an accredited UK program.
- Valid certification by the UK Physician Associate National Examination.
- Strong clinical reasoning, decision-making skills, and the ability to work under pressure in a team environment.
- Commitment to ongoing learning and professional development.
Personal Attributes:
- Self-motivated, confident, adaptable, and excellent in communication within a multidisciplinary team.
- Energetic with a caring attitude towards patients.
This role provides an opportunity for direct mentorship and further education within a supportive, quality-driven practice environment.
**PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY**
An exciting opportunity has arisen for the position of Physician Associate to join our welcoming and friendly team at Omnia Medical Practice, a forward thinking practice based in the East of Birmingham.
We are looking to employ an experienced Physician Associate to join our existing team on a full time basis to help us expand and develop our urgent care services both in our pediatric and adult care services.
We already employ an experienced Physician Associate Team and wish to enhance the team under the guidance of the Partners and Management Team.
You will be joining a team of 4 other PA's.
We are looking to build on our existing team of motivated PA's. We feel that there is ample opportunity within the organisation to improve the care of our patients and we believe that the role of the PA is an exciting part of this journey. The successful candidate will have access to direct mentoring and supervision from one of our very experienced Partners and also the PA Team Leader. As we are an educationally focused organisation, we are happy to support further education on an ongoing basis. Day to day the role will consist of acute patient assessment via history taking, the use of long term condition management and also engaging in health promotion and lifestyle advice. The successful candidate will also be given allocated administration time to cover any patient follow up work.
We will ensure that you hare trained in all the competencies that are required for the role.
About us
Job summary
As a PA you will be acting within your professional boundaries, providing care for patients from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care under the supervision of a GP. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the General Practice, in consultation with the duty GP. You will work with the Multi-Disciplinary General Practice team to support the delivery of policy and procedures and meet the needs of patients.
Mentorship and supervision will be provided by designated senior medical personnel. The level and type of supervision will be dependent on the post holders skills and knowledge and determined by the organisations clinical governance arrangements. You will follow recommended annual appraisals and continuing professional development set out by the Faculty of Physician Associates (FPA).
1. SCOPE AND PURPOSE OF THE ROLE
To deliver a high standard of patient care using advanced autonomous clinical skills with in-depth theoretical knowledge and evidence based Practice working under the supervision of a GP
- To manage a clinical caseload and deal with presenting patients needs in a primary care setting
- To provide clinical leadership where appropriate within the Practice and support other members of the team to develop and maintain clinical skills appropriate to your role and expertise.
2. PRIMARY DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Clinical
- Provide first point of contact for patients presenting with undifferentiated, undiagnosed problems, utilising history taking, physical examination, problem-solving and clinical decision-making skills to establish a working diagnosis and management plan working in partnership with patients.
- Undertake surgery based consultations for emergency or routine problems including management of long term conditions. In addition, undertake telephone calls.
- Instigate necessary invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests or investigations and interpret findings/reports within the scope of a PAs Practice. Discuss the result and implications of laboratory investigations with patients.
- Utilise clinical guidelines and promote evidence-based practice .
- Offer a holistic service to patients and their families, developing where appropriate an on-going plan of care/support with an emphasis on prevention and self-care.
- 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 (PPHCT) 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.
Training and development
- Participate in continuing professional development opportunities to keep up-to-date with evidence-based knowledge and competence in all aspects of the role to meet clinical governance guidelines for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and a Personal Development Plan (PDP) utilising a reflective approach to Practice. This requires 50 hours of CPD every year.
- Undertake a variety of research and analysis tasks associated with the improvement of clinical care, medical diagnosis and treatment where appropriate using the following means.
- Audit of clinical practice
- Significant event review / root cause analysis
- Review of relevant literature
- Research unusual symptoms and treatment options through consultation with general practitioners, physicians and other specialists.