Physician Associate

Job summary

We are seeking a motivated Physician Associate to join the Interventional Radiology team at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust on a 12-month fixed-term basis to provide maternity cover.

This role offers the opportunity to work within a busy and innovative specialty at a major trauma centre, supporting inpatient, outpatient, and trauma services.

The post holder will work closely with consultants, junior doctors, nurses and allied health professionals to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across a wide range of IR procedures and pathways.

Main duties of the job

- Work under consultant supervision to provide essential clinical and operational support within the Interventional Radiology (IR) department.

- Assist with procedures, including patient consenting, pre- and post-procedure care, and follow-up.

- Organise daily and future procedure lists, ensuring appropriate documentation is completed (including discharge summaries and sample requests).

- Support patient referrals and enquiries, liaising with multidisciplinary teams to maintain smooth pathways of care.

- Contribute to the preparation of morbidity and mortality (M&M) meetings.

- Assist in managing the workload associated with vascular access and interventional oncology cases.

- Promote continuity of care, efficient patient flow, and the overall safety and effectiveness of the IR service.

About us

St. George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one oft he UK's largest healthcare organisations 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 care including 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, older people 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 annual income of £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.