Physician Associate

Job summary

We have an opportunity for a Physician Associate to join the team at a GP practice in Wallington. Manor Practice is a well-established GP surgery with a reputation for providing patient-focused care to approximately 9000 patients across two sites. A forward-thinking organisation with a multi-professional workforce striving to provide high quality care, education and training. Manor Practice is accredited as a training practice and believes in building for the future, having a strong track record of training a range of both health professionals and non-clinical staff.

This is a great opportunity to work within an innovative and fast expanding Primary Care Network in Sutton, Surrey. Sutton Primary Care Networks (PCNs) was formed from the merger of 23 high achieving GP practices and our services are offered from different GP Practices in and around Sutton, Cheam, Wallington and Carshalton. We aim to provide the best quality care for the local community.

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to provide safe and evidence-based clinical care to patients, working alongside others in the clinical team including GPs and Practice Nurses to include clinical assessment, history-taking, diagnosis, assessment, treatment and evaluation of care. The post holder will demonstrate critical-thinking in the decision-making process and they will work with the entire clinical team to meet the needs of patients. The post holder will work with the supervision and support of GPs and others as appropriate, implementing agreed management plans and following approved protocols where necessary

As a PA you will be acting within your professional boundaries, providing care for patients from initial history taking, clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of their care under the supervision of a GP. You will demonstrate safe, clinical decision-making and expert care for patients within the general practice multi-disciplinary team, in consultation with a GP.

Mentorship and supervision will be provided by one of the GP Trainers, supported by the whole clinical team, while providing patient care at our PCN site(s). The level and type of supervision will be dependent on the post holders skills and knowledge and determined by the organisations clinical governance arrangements. You will follow recommended annual appraisals and continuing professional development set out by the Faculty of Physician Associates (FPA).

About us

Sutton Primary Care Networks (PCNs) Sutton has a population of approximately 200000 residents registered to 23 practices and there are currently 4 Primary Care Networks (PCNs); Carshalton, Cheam & South Sutton, Central Sutton and Wallington PCN; each serving a population of approximately 50000 patients. Primary care networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan. Bringing general practices together to work at scale has been a policy priority for some years for a range of reasons, including improving the ability of practices to recruit and retain staff; to manage financial and estates pressures; to provide a wider range of services to patients and to more easily integrate with the wider health and care system. Sutton PCN is forward-looking, friendly and focused on providing a wide range of excellent healthcare services to patients in Sutton and the surrounding area. There are also currently 9 PCN Clinical Directors. We merged as we could see the benefits of working together in a larger GP partnership and we are delighted to be realising some of those benefits now. Because of our scale, not only are we more resilient and efficient but we are able to invest in continuous quality improvement, enhanced care, new services and training and developing our workforce. We value the diversity of our colleagues and actively champion an inclusive culture and are committed to helping our colleagues achieve a work/life balance.