Physician Associate
The closing date is 18 June 2025
Job summary
The Physician Associate posts support a team of consultants, junior doctors and nursing staff and therapists within each department. The post holder must hold ascience-related degree prior to graduating from an established UK Physician Associate Trainingprogramme, which follows the Department of Health's Competence Curriculum Framework,has successfully passed the UK National Physician Associate Examination and is registered with the Managed Voluntary Register for Physician Associates and /or GMC. Consideration will be given toappropriately qualified Physician Associates from other countries as well.This is an innovative idea to give newly qualified or more experienced Physician Associates the chance to work for 1 year or more to put into practice the knowledge and skills they haveacquired in their training. Although this is a neuroscience group there is a lot of acute general medicine available to further PA training. The PAs will rotate through Stroke, Neurology and Rehabilitation. They willhave Educational Supervision and an appraisal at the end of the year. The emphasis will be on ensuring the basic clinical and management skills will be put into practice but there will also be a lot of subspecialty learning available too.
Main duties of the job
- To provide expert assistance to the consultant physicians and specialist registrars in the provision of ahigh quality service to patients in the neurology department including neurosurgery and rehabilitation
- The Physician Associate role is being developed to work alongside the department's doctors.
- The Physician Associate may be asked to rotate to different departments within neuroscience toprovide a wide range of clinical experience, improve their overall skill and ability and the service theyprovide to the departments.
- Physician Associates will represent the department at local and external meetings as appropriate.
About us
St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one oft he UK's largest healthcareorganisations and has recently integrated with Community Services Wandsworth. The Trust shares it's main hospital site in south west London with St. George's University of London and is linked to Kingston Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences. St. George's has an established national and international reputation as a leading hospital for specialist careincluding neuroscience, cardiac care, stroke and cancer. We provide excellent local care to the residents of Wandsworth and regional care as both, a hyper-acute stroke unit and trauma centre.As well as acute hospital services, St. George's provides a wide variety of specialist and community hospital-based care and a full range of community services to children, adults, olderpeople and people with learning disabilities. These services are provided from St George's Hospital, Tooting, Queen Mary's Hospital, Roehampton, 11 health centres and clinics, schools and nurseries, patients' homes and Wandsworth Prison. We employ 8,000 staff, have an annualincome of c£560m, around 1,100 beds and we serve a population of 1.3 million across south west London.We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust - being excellent,kind, responsible and respectful - and behave in a way that reflects these.
Details
Date posted
04 June 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£54,320 to £60,981 a year PA
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
12 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
200-NN-712823-AHP-MK
Job locations
St George's Hospital
Blackshaw Road
London
SW17 0QT
Employer details
Employer name
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
St George's Hospital
Blackshaw Road
London
SW17 0QT
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