PCN Physician Associate
at The Confederation Hillingdon CIC
Uxbridge UB8, England, United Kingdom -
Start Date | Expiry Date | Salary | Posted On | Experience | Skills | Telecommute | Sponsor Visa |
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Immediate | 05 Feb, 2025 | GBP 52000 Annual | 06 Nov, 2024 | N/A | Good communication skills | No | No |
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Description:
Job responsibilities The following are the core responsibilities of the Physician Associate role. There may be, on occasion, a requirement to carry out other tasks; this will be dependent upon factors such as workload and staffing levels. The Physician Associate will work within their scope of clinical practice and: Work clinical sessions consisting of either telephone triage, face to face, video or e-Consulting appointments or all four. Participate in all treatment and preventative healthcare services in the Practice as delegated and agreed by the supervising GP(s).
Provide direct clinical care to patients using established clinical guidelines. Perform specialised diagnostic physical exams and treatment procedures. Instruct and educate patients in preventative health care. Be confident in explaining to patients their clinical management plan and be able to modify that plan according to their age and co-morbidities.
Identify, signpost or refer patients at risk of developing long-term conditions, preventing adverse effects on the patients’ health. Give confidence to the supervising GP in your use of your clinical findings to justify the differential diagnosis. Organise onward investigation, treatment and referral where appropriate. Ensure continuity of care, arranging follow-up consultations or reviews as necessary.
Provide appropriate preventative health care and advice. Attend regular practice clinical meetings. Support the clinical team with all safeguarding matters, in accordance with local and national policies. Under supervision of the GPs in the practice, make professional, autonomous decisions in relation to presenting problems, whether self-referred or referred from other health care workers within the organisation.
Record clear and contemporaneous IT based consultation notes to agreed standards. Review and act on Laboratory results and Clinical communication from Hospitals and other providers. Develop consultation skills to enable shared patient and practitioner decision-making. Recognise assess and refer where appropriate patients presenting with mental health problems.
Understand practice and local policies for substance abuse and addictive behaviour, referring patients appropriately. Be able to justify choice of medication, and support patients in the use of their prescribed medication (within own scope of practice). Be able to understand the impact of comorbidities and other medications and poly-pharmacy. Deliver integrated patient centred-care through appropriate working with the wider primary care multi-disciplinary team and social care networks.
Conduct home visits and Care Home visits (following adequate training). Act on alerts (e.g. QOF, local enhanced services etc.) and reminders during a consultation. Assist the practices in achieving their clinical targets and objectives in QOF, Local enhanced services etc
Responsibilities:
Please refer the Job description for details
REQUIREMENT SUMMARY
Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)
Hospital/Health Care
Pharma / Biotech / Healthcare / Medical / R&D
Medical
Graduate
Proficient
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Uxbridge UB8, United Kingdom