Physician Associate - Adult Mental Health

Job overview

We are looking for a Physician Associate with a passion for delivering the highest standard of care for individuals that are accessing interventions in our specialist community mental health services.

You will be working as a Physician Associate within our Adult Community Mental Health Services in the East of Hertfordshire, supporting our continuing journey to deliver our CQC outstanding services that remain accredited with the Royal College of Psychiatrists.

In this post, you will be joining our welcoming team in Cheshunt in the South East of Hertfordshire where there are good travel links with London.  This post provides good opportunity to develop your physician associate career working collaboratively within our Adult Mental Health Service to provide holistic, clinical care.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will complement the work of our psychiatric services by:

• supporting physical examination including annual physical health checks for service users with severe mental illness
• supporting diagnosis
• supporting the management of service users with co existing long term conditions such as diabetes
• overseeing the mental health care of service users living in residential care
• analyse test results
• develop care management plans
• health promotion

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Physician Associate roles are likely to include, but not be limited to the following: • Practice under the supervision of a Consultant Psychiatrist • Conduct initial psychiatric assessments, take patient histories and perform  physical examinations • Establish differential diagnosis, making appropriate treatment plans under  supervision of the Consultant Psychiatrist • Participate in multidisciplinary team meetings, handovers and other relevant  clinical meetings • Treat patient and their family members using a high degree of empathy and  advanced communication skills • Respond in a timely way to requests to assess or review patient’s physical and /  or mental health • Record clinical notes about patient contacts and provide advice to staff on further  management / investigations / interventions • Review and summarise patient notes for the purposes of contributing to discharge  summaries and reports. • Undertake assessment and assistance to community staff in the event of medical  emergencies • Work collaboratively with the relevant team i.e. Psychiatrists, Junior Doctors,  Senior Nurses, Administrators, Nursing Staff, Social Workers, Support Workers,  Occupational Therapists, Psychologists to ensure good working relationships • Liaise with primary care and relevant secondary health care providers relating to  a patient’s care or treatment • Liaise with relevant community teams about a patient’s on-going care and  treatment needs