Job overview

The Physician Associate role has been developed to work alongside the medical and nursing teams, managing patients with respiratory clinical team. 

You will build on your skills in clerking, assessing and examining patients gained during your Physician Associate training, present cases to more senior members of the team, initiate and interpret investigations, and recommend appropriate management/treatment. You will be expected to liaise with other professionals and specialties as required and complete necessary documentation relating to their patients. You will be supported by a team of consultants, including a specialty registrar and a dedicated supervisor, and you will be fully integrated within your clinical team. There will be opportunities for education and service development and your skills will be vital in helping us achieve our mission of continuing to provide excellent care for patients within both in a inpatient and outpatient setting.  

Main duties of the job

Our priorities in Respiratory are in accordance with the Trust priorities, and these include:

•    To provide excellent urgent and emergency care for our patients 
•    To utilise our respiratory support unit to deliver high-quality, evidence-based care 
•    To ensure that our team have the right skills and experience by championing high-quality multi-professional training and education 
•    To be innovative in our service design, using data to drive forward change 
•    To support team members and ensure they have a sense of belonging and personal development 
•    To support colleagues, including those on the acute assessment unit, who may be managing patients with respiratory disease 

Working for our organisation

About the Trust 

 Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.   

 We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that are PROUD to Care for nearly one million people. Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s,  in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.  

 We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for –  our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment. Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe,  effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection. 

 Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate. We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster  and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.