Physician Associate in Dartford

Job Responsibilities

• Responsible for attending to patients who wish to be seen by a health care professional; diagnosing and treating patients presenting with minor illness.
• Seeing and advising people in respect of their continuing medical and nursing needs.
• Prioritising and triaging the needs of patients accordingly, making any necessary referrals for investigations in the appropriate manner.
• Work with reference to practice agreed protocols and guidelines.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Controls admission and discharge to own caseload through appropriate comprehensive assessment to include physical, mental, emotional and social health including the use of invasive and non-invasive investigations to establish a diagnosis.
• Prescription of evidence‑based care including medication.
• Developing with the patient and family when appropriate, an ongoing plan for health with an emphasis on prevention and self‑care.
• Follow‑up and evaluation of care.
• Direct referral to and liaison with consultants and other professional agencies.
• Making and accepting referrals within the practice team.
• If qualified to, prescribes according to formulary and competencies.
• Support patients to adopt health promotion strategies that promote healthy lifestyles, and apply principles of self‑care.
• A collaborative, supportive and holistic approach.
• To keep accurate patient records on computer system.

Administrative Responsibilities

• Disseminates learning and information gained to other team members in order to share good practice and inform others about current and future developments/courses.
• Manages and assesses risk within areas of responsibility, ensuring adequate measures are in place to protect staff and patients.
• Participates in the delivery of Chronic Disease Management and in achieving QOF Targets.
• Ensures good communication between you and the team and other members of staff and communicate any changes of ways of working to those affected as appropriate.
• Attends and contributes to Practice Clinical Governance.
• Encourages and ensures team working within the practice.
• To participate in practice clinical audits if required.
• Acts as a resource to other practice members.
• Uses technology and appropriate software as an aid to management in planning, implementation and monitoring of care, presenting and communicating information.
• Reviews and processes data using accurate Read codes in order to ensure easy and accurate information retrieval for monitoring and audit processes.

Person Specification / Experience

• Must have past experience of working in a GP surgery.
• Must be a good team worker.
• Good knowledge of common medical conditions encountered in primary care.
• Communication skills need to be excellent.
• Knowledge of working on the following systems: EMIS, Docman, ICE.
• Must be a Qualified Physician Associate.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.