Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic Physician Associate (PA) looking to work within a friendly city centre hospital? Are you passionate about developing your clinical skills within a diverse, supportive team? If so, we are inviting applications to join our Paediatric Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) Team at Bristol Children's Hospital
The successful applicant will join a dynamic and welcoming multidisciplinary team to provide care for patients and their families requiring allogenic stem cell transplant across Bristol, South West England, Cardiff and Belfast. This will include involvement in the HLA (Human Leukocyte Antigen) typing process, including assessing results, donor co-ordination and co-ordinating the BMT clinical patient protocol
We are mainly a malignant transplant unit, but we also undertake transplant in benign haematological diseases. We are enthusiastic about expanding our transplant indications with novel therapies in the near future (i.e gene therapies, CAR-T)
The successful applicant will be the first PA working within Bristol Children's Hospital. Therefore, alongside support from the Paediatric BMT team, they will also be supported by our Lead PA at Bristol Royal Infirmary (BRI) and join our wider PA team across UHBW. This includes involvement in our trust wide weekly teaching and support in line with our UHBW PA development programme
Applicants must hold a qualification in Physician Associate Studies and be listed on the Physician Associate Managed Voluntary Register
Main duties of the job
- Examination and clinical assessment of healthy related donors and patients to assess fitness for donation or transplant with appropriate escalation if required
- Bone marrow aspirate, biopsy and harvest, lumbar punctures (training available)
- Skin biopsy
- Organisation of central line insertion
- Collating the patient transplant protocol and the schedule for the transplant conditioning
- Updating the referral meeting excel spreadsheet
- Leading the referral meeting
- Communicating with Anthony Nolan and other registries, virology, Stem Cell lab, other labs
- Present new referrals in the BMT MDT
- HTA (Human Tissue Agency) referral for the sibling donors
- Explain the bone marrow procedure and consenting of patients
- European BMT and JACIE consenting
- Participate in the relevant MDTs/meetings
- When prescribing rights are attained, prescribing pre-admission prophylactic drugs
- Cross site co-ordination and chasing of results from partner referral sites (Oxford, Cambridge, Southampton, Belfast, Cambridge)
- Chasing of clinical results and escalation of abnormal results (i.e echo,. ECG, CT reports etc)
- Pre-transplant workup including requesting and taking of blood tests in accordance with agreed timelines
- Involvement in research trials
- Teaching for nurses and doctors in training
- Clinical audit (BMT and JACIE related) and departmental projects
- Review and updating of BMT guidelines and SOPs alongside MDT
- NO on calls
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award-winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description attached to this vacancy.
Hours of work:
Part-time posts will initially be
Monday - off, Tuesday - 0930-1700, Wednesday 0930 - 1700, Thursday 0900 - 1630, Friday 0900 - 1700
Total of 28.5 hours per week, as agreed with the department. Evening and weekend shifts are not required at present but may be introduced in the future to meet service needs
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description attached to this vacancy.
Hours of work:
Part-time posts will initially be
Monday - off, Tuesday - 0930-1700, Wednesday 0930 - 1700, Thursday 0900 - 1630, Friday 0900 - 1700
Total of 28.5 hours per week, as agreed with the department. Evening and weekend shifts are not required at present but may be introduced in the future to meet service needs
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Minimum of a BSc/BA undergraduate degree prior to undertaking PA training
- MSc/PgDip in Physician Associate Studies from a recognised PA training programme
- Current and valid certification or re-certification by the Physician Associate National Exam
- Registered with the UK Physician Associate Managed Voluntary Register (PAMVR)
- Member of the Faculty of Physician Associates
- Evidence of post-qualification learning and development
- Basic Life Support
Desirable
- Paediatric Basic Life Support
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience in working as a fully qualified Physician Associate
- Excellent knowledge of medical science and its application to clinical scenarios
- Able to demonstrate sound clinical judgement
- Experience working cohesively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Experience in clinical audit
- Experience in departmental research
- Baseline knowledge of caring for immunocompromised patients
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to interpret and implement guidelines, policies and procedures
- Ability to prioritise workload safely and effectively
- Experience in working with and contributing to a multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of various healthcare roles and respect for the value of all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Excellent organisational skills
- Competent in using Microsoft Excel
- Ability to effectively communicate highly complex and sensitive information (verbal and written) to colleagues, patients, and relatives
- Safe and competent performance of procedural skills (i.e., venepuncture, cannulation, catheterisation, etc.)
- Confidence and competence in working alongside trust Confidentiality and Safeguarding guidelines
Desirable
- Competence in extended clinical skills (i.e lumbar puncture, ascitic taps/drains etc.)
Aptitudes
Essential
- Enthusiasm to learn
- Awareness of self development needs and motivation to seek development opportunities
- Ability to work within limits of competency and seek help where appropriate
- Caring and empathic attitude towards patients and their relatives
- Flexibility and resilience to change, Honesty and reliability
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Minimum of a BSc/BA undergraduate degree prior to undertaking PA training
- MSc/PgDip in Physician Associate Studies from a recognised PA training programme
- Current and valid certification or re-certification by the Physician Associate National Exam
- Registered with the UK Physician Associate Managed Voluntary Register (PAMVR)
- Member of the Faculty of Physician Associates
- Evidence of post-qualification learning and development
- Basic Life Support
Desirable
- Paediatric Basic Life Support
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Experience in working as a fully qualified Physician Associate
- Excellent knowledge of medical science and its application to clinical scenarios
- Able to demonstrate sound clinical judgement
- Experience working cohesively within a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
- Experience in clinical audit
- Experience in departmental research
- Baseline knowledge of caring for immunocompromised patients
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to interpret and implement guidelines, policies and procedures
- Ability to prioritise workload safely and effectively
- Experience in working with and contributing to a multidisciplinary team
- Understanding of various healthcare roles and respect for the value of all members of the multidisciplinary team
- Excellent organisational skills
- Competent in using Microsoft Excel
- Ability to effectively communicate highly complex and sensitive information (verbal and written) to colleagues, patients, and relatives
- Safe and competent performance of procedural skills (i.e., venepuncture, cannulation, catheterisation, etc.)
- Confidence and competence in working alongside trust Confidentiality and Safeguarding guidelines
Desirable
- Competence in extended clinical skills (i.e lumbar puncture, ascitic taps/drains etc.)
Aptitudes
Essential
- Enthusiasm to learn
- Awareness of self development needs and motivation to seek development opportunities
- Ability to work within limits of competency and seek help where appropriate
- Caring and empathic attitude towards patients and their relatives
- Flexibility and resilience to change, Honesty and reliability
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)
Address
Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Upper Maudlin St.
Bristol
BS2 8BJ
Employer's website
https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
