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Physician Associate

companyPenrose Health
locationLondon, UK
PublishedPublished: Published 5 months ago
Permanent
Our Patients Need You!

At Penrose Health, our mission is to provide the best healthcare to our patients. We're a friendly team looking for like-minded people who can help us fulfill this mission and make a real difference to our patients' lives!

The Job

Under the supervision of the practice, Physician Associates will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, in a patient facing role. Independently assessing, diagnosing and managing patients with acute and chronic medical conditions, within their scope of clinical practice.

Day to day responsibilities will include:

Taking patients from initial clinical assessment through to the diagnosis, treatment and evaluation of care. Coordinating with other primary and secondary healthcare services and prescribers as appropriate. Working clinical sessions consisting of a mixture of telephone and face to face appointments, Physician Associates will exercise a high degree of personal autonomy, demonstrating safe, clinical decision making. Utilising the full range of non-drug therapies for all patients, consider pharmacological interventions and make recommendations to prescribers in accordance with national, local and practice protocols. Conducting home visits (acute (on the day) and chronic (holistic assessments) Details

Location: Opportunities available at several of our South London locations (https://www.penrosehealth.co.uk/locations)

Hours: Ideally full time (weekdays) Salary: £42,000 - £50,000 FT depending on experience Benefits: Private medical insurance, sick pay, opportunity for funded professional development, paid professional indemnity, cycle scheme, regular activities and resilience support

The right candidate will demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills for dealing with our diverse patient population and be able to work well in a close-knit team of both clinicians and non-clinicians. Strong clinical knowledge and good organisational and analytical skills are important to ensure successful outcomes. Appropriate training, development and mentorship will be provided.

Minimum requirements: Qualified Physician Associate with valid PAMVR registration. Previous experience working in General Practice preferred but not required.

About us

We're a small group of close-knit surgeries in South East London on a mission to deliver the best healthcare to our patients. We use a multidisciplinary approach – bringing together GPs, Nurses, HCAs, Pharmacists, Paramedics, Mental Health Nurses, Physician Associates and our non-clinical team to deliver an efficient and effective service with best in class outcomes for patients.

With high levels of patient satisfaction (> 4* on Google at all our sites) and low waiting times, we've been able to grow to over 70,000 patients and we continue to grow at a rapid pace.

We serve our patients across 8 CQC 'Good' rated sites in Lambeth, Southwark and Lewisham, with each site having its own dedicated multidisciplinary team. You'll join one of these site-based teams but you'll be part of the larger Penrose Health family as well!

As part of Team Penrose, you'll have the choice of a NOW or NHS pension and you'll benefit from a comprehensive sick pay scheme after your first year with us. We also pay your professional indemnity and you'll have the opportunity for funded professional development in the future.

On top of the employment benefits, we love to have a bit of fun. Previously the whole team has gotten involved in a bake-off, a steps challenge, a pub quiz and a fundraising round. We've also enjoyed ice cream from our regular visiting ice cream van, enjoyed surprise gifts and taken some proper time to celebrate the summer (see below). These are just some (but not all) of the things we do to make this a great place to work!

Have a watch of our group-wide Summer Social Aftermovie here: youtu.be/KiKW1VbQUus

Underneath all of this, you will also find a core strength and camaraderie that exists in each of our surgery teams and across the group – we really are a family.

All our team are enthusiastic, friendly and we want to make a real difference to our patients – come and be a part of the team!