Address
SalaryFixed-Term: 12 months due to funding
Following the successful introduction of Physician Associates into the Emergency Surgery team, applications are invited for a Physician’s Associate (PA) in Emergency, General Surgery & Urology based at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. The successful candidates will work within the wider general surgical team, and be involved in both elective and emergency work.
Key working relationships:
- Consultants
- Nurse Leaders
- Operational Managers
- Junior doctors
Our priorities within General Surgery are in accordance with the Trust priorities, and these include:
- To provide excellent urgent and emergency care
- To provide planned care such as Ambulatory care and Hot clinics in a way that’s safe and efficient for patients
- To make sure that our team have the right skills and experience through high quality multi professional training
- To be innovative in our service design, using data to drive forward change
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
- To improve the efficiency of the emergency General Surgery team and support the emergency surgery pathways and clinical workload
- To assess, clerk and review patients that are referred to surgery via the Emergency Department or General Practice
- To participate, and lead where appropriate, in ward rounds
- To perform and assist with practical procedures such as venepuncture, cannulas, blood gases, urinary catheters, incision and drainage, and support the booking of procedures and investigations as appropriate
- To participate in multidisciplinary meetings
- To support our general surgical colleagues by identifying and referring suitable patients for review in the Surgical Same Day Emergency Care unit
- To facilitate the safe and timely discharge of patients
- To contribute to the achievement and maintenance of key performance indicators
- To act as a consistent member of the team and to help in handover processes and continuity of care for our patients
- To participate in teaching and quality improvement projects – developing and embedding new and innovative practices and policies
- To provide excellent urgent and emergency care
- To provide planned care such as Ambulatory care and Hot clinics in a way that’s safe and efficient for patient
- To make sure that our team have the right skills and experience through high quality multi professional training
- To be innovative in our service design, using data to drive forward change
