Physicians Associate - Emergency Medicine

Job overview

This is a post for Physician Associates (PA) who have successfully passed their preceptorship to join our Emergency Medicine Directorate comprising two Urgent Care Centres and our Emergency Department.

You will be expected to work in the Emergency Department. You will always be supervised by an ED Consultant and in this role you will work with the Emergency Medicine Lead Consultant as the jobs clinician carrying out reviews or assisting with tasks that will facilitate the onward referral or discharge of patients within the Emergency Department. There will also be the opportunity to carry out management plans under the guidance of the Emergency Medicine Consultant working in the Urgent Intervention Area of the Department.

Main duties of the job

As a dependant practitioner, undertake patient consultations, assessments, clinical examinations, order appropriate investigations and interpret investigation findings under the guidance of an Emergency Medicine Consultant appropriate actions. This role includes rotation across all areas of the Emergency Department and working with out multi disciplinary teams.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Participation in the clinical care of patients
• Ensure the provision of a high standard of care at all times
• Exercise a high degree of personal autonomy when assessing and planning care for patients
• As a dependant practitioner, undertake patient consultations, assessments, clinical examinations, order appropriate investigations and interpret investigation findings under the guidance of an Emergency Medicine Consultant
• Adapt specialist clinical knowledge and skills to different clinical settings and influence service delivery and patient care
• Recognise patients with changing health status and undertake appropriate actions
• As part of a multi-disciplinary team, support the delivery of care in a range of settings
• Under clinical supervision, take responsibility for a dedicated patient caseload, where required
• Maintain timely and appropriate documentation
• Within your scope of practice and working as part of multi-disciplinary team, perform delegated diagnostic/therapeutic procedures
• Communicate information to patients and families and within the healthcare team
• Improve the quality of the patient experience by identifying and meeting the individual clinical needs of patients
• Rigorously review with a supervisor, all aspects of the patient’s plan of care and identify and address issues that may result in less than high quality care
• Contribute to the development of efficient pathways of care
• Work flexibly to meet the needs of the service, including out of hours work in the presence of an Emergency Medicine Consultant
• Liaise closely and work collaboratively within the clinical/multi-disciplinary team to ensure good working relationships are in place which maximise benefits to patient care
• Maintain own clinical development by keeping abreast of new treatments and technologies within your role or specialism
• Implement effective systems and processes for infection control management and relevant audit within your clinical area
• Act at all times, in such a way that safeguards the health and wellbeing of children and vulnerable adults at all times, in keeping with ELHT safeguarding policies

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.