Physician Associate

PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY.
Are you a Physician Associate looking to join a forward thinking Primary Care Network?
Do you share our values of being ‘ inspiring , caring , and working as one team ’?
Do you want to work in a pioneering, integrated healthcare model that joins Primary and Secondary care to improve the healthcare of Sandwell residents?
Then join us at Your Health Partnership Primary Care Network !
This exciting opportunity will allow the successful candidates to work alongside other members of the primary care team to support our 55,000 patients across 8 sites (including the APMS) within our extensive and diverse network of GP surgeries.
We are seeking to recruit an experienced Physician Associate to join our well established team with over 10 Physician Associates.

• Please note- this is a 12 month fixed term maternity cover post*

Physician Associates are a highly valued group of clinicians at YHP, and we strive to offer a variety to the role which incudes working within our acute hub setting alongside other clinical staff, telephone consultations, long term condition clinics and working alongside the home visiting team.
General Practice is constantly changing and it's an exciting time to join us and become part of our ever growing, supportive, and forward thinking Primary Care Network. Your Health Partnership have been Physician Associate pioneers for over 10 years and highly value the role, which is seen as a fundamental part of developing the future of primary care services.
YHP is a cutting-edge Primary Care Network working as part of Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals Trust.
We welcome applications from Physician Associates with a passion for General Practice. The successful applicant will need to share the same values of YHP and work as part of a large multi-disciplinary team which includes GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Clinical Pharmacists, Social Prescribers as well as our existing team of Physician Associates. The Physician Associates are supported by a Lead Physician Associate and a Supervising GP.
In conjunction with a thorough induction programme and training, support is provided for continued professional development and team development opportunities, which are strongly encouraged. The Trust also has a very good reputation for undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, with strong links to the University of Birmingham and Health Education West Midlands.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails