Physician Associate (Band 6 / 7)

Working as a Physician Associate within the multi-disciplinary team in medicine at Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, the post holder will work to offer high quality care to our patients., + Under the management of the Consultant, undertake patient consultations, assessments, clinical examinations, order appropriate investigations and interpret investigation findings
+ Form a list of differential diagnoses, recommend management/treatment, has the freedom to act with in sphere of competence as a part of the multi-disciplinary team.
+ Communicate effectively to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information to patients, families/carers, clinicians and any health and social care professional. To ensure delivery of safer care.
+ Manage complex information and or situations requiring analysis, interpretation to assess risk, including clinical reasoning.
+ Manage and prioritise workload, liaising with team members and patients to ensure safe delivery of care.
+ As part of a multi-disciplinary team, support the delivery of care in a range of settings, which may include hospital inpatient wards, outpatient clinics, community clinics, General Practice (GP) surgeries, urgent care facilities, nursing homes, and conducting home visits where required
+ Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, support and contribute to timely discharge planning where appropriate, + Under the management of the Consultant, undertake patient consultations, assessments, clinical examinations, order appropriate investigations and interpret investigation findings
+ Form a list of differential diagnoses, recommend management/treatment, has the freedom to act with in sphere of competence as a part of the multi-disciplinary team.
+ Communicate effectively to provide and receive complex, sensitive or contentious information to patients, families/carers, clinicians and any health and social care professional. To ensure delivery of safer care.
+ Manage complex information and or situations requiring analysis, interpretation to assess risk, including clinical reasoning.
+ Manage and prioritise workload, liaising with team members and patients to ensure safe delivery of care.
+ As part of a multi-disciplinary team, support the delivery of care in a range of settings, which may include hospital inpatient wards, outpatient clinics, community clinics, General Practice (GP) surgeries, urgent care facilities, nursing homes, and conducting home visits where required
+ Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, support and contribute to timely discharge planning where appropriate
+ Within your scope of practice and working as part of multi-disciplinary team, perform delegated diagnostic/therapeutic procedures under clinical supervision, take responsibility for a dedicated patient caseload, where required
+ Liaise closely and work collaboratively within the clinical/multi-disciplinary team to ensure good working relationships are in place which maximise benefits to patient care
+ Maintain timely and appropriate documentation
o Contribute to the development of efficient pathways of care
o Ensure the provision of a high standard of care at all times
+ Build effective networks with other teams and other organisations, working in collaboration to support efficient patient care
+ Comment on policies and processes to inform policy and process development relevant to the clinical department
+ Ability to complete clinical skills requiring dexterity and accuracy when required, ie ABG/Venepuncture.
+ Ensures accurate and contemporaneous notes are completed.
+ To report all actual and potential clinical incidents involved in, in accordance with the Trust's Reporting Procedures for Untoward Events, using the electronic reporting system
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
If you are offered a position which requires you to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, Airedale NHS Foundation Trust will administer the DBS check on your behalf and will recover the cost (Enhanced £41.90, Standard £21.90 or Basic £21.90) from your first full months salary. This is a condition of your employment.
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You are encouraged to participate in the DBS Update Service and pay the £13 cost per year.
We encourage applicants to receive the Covid-19 vaccination but this will not be a condition of deployment with the organisation. We will be asking applicants to share their vaccination status as part of our normal pre employment screening but this will not affect their employment status with the Trust.

At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people's age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Increasing our diversity and supporting our organisation to be more inclusive is a key priority here at Airedale and our teams are at the centre of how we work towards this.
We appreciate all people may have diverse and individual needs and we pride ourselves on supporting all people to thrive and flourish at work. We have frameworks in place that support reasonable adjustments and flexible working for colleagues throughout their working lives which starts at recruitment.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you'll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come. We are also on the journey to a new electronic patient record, part of our wider ambition for our digital future - a future that builds on our significant telemedicine and digital care success. Ultimately, what makes Airedale special is our people. Not just our staff, but our volunteers, patients, visitors, and wider population who make up the Airedale family. This is a Trust that sits at the heart of our community, and our communities are very proud of their Trust., At Airedale we are passionate about our population and meeting its needs. We believe in offering a positive environment for our people as key to delivering that.
We are committed to our core values and behaviours, be a diverse and inclusive employer where a just and learning culture is at its heart.