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University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
About
University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust was formed on the 1st October 2020 when Royal Bournemouth & Christchurch Hospital NHS Foundation Trust merged with Poole Hospital.
Hospitals covered by the Trust include:
Royal Bournemouth Hospital, Castle Lane East, Bournemouth, Dorset BH7 7DW
Poole Hospital, Longfleet Road, Poole BH15 2JB
Christchurch Hospital, Fairmile Road, Christchurch, Dorset BH23 2JX
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Physician Associate in Stroke Services
Closed for applications on: 8-Apr-2025 09:31
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 8-Apr-2025 09:31
Key details
Location
- Site
- Royal Bournemouth Hospital
- Address
- Castle Lane East
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Postcode
- BH7 7DW
- Major / Minor Region
- Dorset
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 1 year (1-year fixed term contract post with the potential opportunity to extend and/or become permanent in the future.)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Working over 5 days a week with potential to extend to 7 days in the future)
Salary
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Stroke Services Physician Associate
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
The successful candidate will participate in the delivery of excellent care to patients within the Stroke Service with development of the role of a Physician Associate (PA) within the speciality.
All PAs will be given an educational supervisor and supported with work-based assessments for appraisal purposes, all PAs have access to a Study Budget in order to attend National Conferences and courses as part of CPD. There is a regular teaching programme for the PAs in addition to local departmental teaching and we hold a PA forum every 3 months. We have student PAs from Bournemouth University, and you will be asked to assist in their educational while on placement.
The post holder will be responsible to their Educational Supervisor, working closely with the consultants and other allied health professionals within the department, to provide comprehensive and compassionate care to their patients.
The post holder will work with the Consultants, Doctors in training, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, and the wider Stroke Service team, which may, in time, include some weekend working and might include cross-site working until all stroke services are centralised on the RBH site (current timescale is May 2025). This post suits a PA who has been qualified for 1 year +.
Interview date: TBC
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
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The postholder will be working on our 43-bed designated Stroke Unit. They will be able to participate in and support the daily Consultant ward rounds for both the Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU), which take place twice daily, and the Acute Stroke Unit (ASU), which takes place every morning. The post holder will also be expected to support the daily white board round (review of all in-patients) and the weekly Stroke Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT) meeting.
The postholder will work closely with the Stroke Medical Team, The Stroke Unit Nursing Team and our team of Specialist Nurses and Advanced Nurse Practitioners. In addition, they will work as part of the wider Stroke MDT that includes Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dieticians, Orthoptists and Social Workers. There are certainly opportunities to develop the role within our Same Day Emergency Clinic (SDEC), which is a new service being implemented at RBH from March 2025, as well as our Stroke Ambulatory and Follow-up Clinics.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National terms and conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This is a very exciting time to join the Trust, The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals and Poole Hospital, merged to form University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust in 2020, with a plan for all emergency services to be based at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital (RBH) site and all planned care at the Poole Hospital (PH) site by 2030. This provides an exciting backdrop of change and the chance to help develop innovative services and new pathways. Stroke is at the forefront of these changes. All in-patient stroke beds are now based at RBH, within our 43-bed purpose-built stroke unit, of which 8 beds are designated as hyper-acute stroke. Our weekday TIA Rapid Access Neurovascular clinic is currently based at PH, with weekends provided on a shared rota basis in collaboration with Salisbury Hospital. Approval and investment funding has recently been agreed for a new 7-day Neurovascular Same Day Emergency Clinic (SDEC) which will be based at RBH, and plans are progressing to re-locate our weekday TIA service from PH to RBH and embed it within our new Neurovascular SDEC service (current timescale for re-location is May 2025). We also have a comprehensive Stroke Early Supported Discharge service which we’re in the process of expanding to support patients with higher levels of complexity and dependency.
Our Stroke Service comprises of an extremely dynamic, proactive, and dedicated team of Consultant Stroke Physicians, Stroke Consultant Therapist, Stroke Consultant Nurse, Stroke Specialist Nurses, TIA Specialist Nurses, Stroke Outreach Team, Stroke Performance and Delivery Manager and our extremely professional multi-disciplinary team.
The post holder will work with the Consultants, Doctors in training, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, and the wider Stroke Service team, which may, in time, include some weekend working and might include cross-site working until all stroke services are centralised on the RBH site (current timescale is May 2025).
This post suits a PA who has been qualified for 1 year +.
For more detailed information, please see the post job description and person specification.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Postgraduate Diploma in Physician Associate Studies from an accredited UK training program
- • Undergraduate degree in a biomedical sciences/Life sciences/Nursing or Allied Health science
- • Member of the Faculty of Physician Associates at the Royal College of Physician (FRCPA)
- • Member on the UK managed voluntary registry with the FRCPA (and any successor from regulation with the GMC)
- • Current, valid certification of the Physician Associate National Examination
- • Basic Life support
Desirable criteria
- • Immediate or Advanced Life Support
- • MSc in Physician Associate studies
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Knowledge and experience of managing acute conditions
- • Evidence of teaching clinical skills to staff
- • Experience of influencing and persuading others resulting in improvement to clinical practice
- • Ability to exercise sound judgement when faced with conflicting pressures
- • Secondary care experience
- • Has conducted clinical audit/Quality Improvement Projects (QIP)
- • Experience of working as a Physician Associate in the UK
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of mentoring students
- • Evidence of closing the loop in clinical audit
Technical Skills Competencies
Essential criteria
- • Able to take responsibility for the clinical care of patients ensuring the highest standards
- • Ability to undertake a structured clinical assessment
- • Can organise appropriate investigations and interpret the results
- • Good knowledge of IT including Microsoft Office
- • Ability to implement policies and guidelines
- • Can apply research outcomes to clinical problems
- • Inquiring and critical approach to work
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Evidence of continual learning and development
- • Understanding of the current issues within the organisation and wider NHS
- • Understanding of the role of Physician Associates within the organisation
- • Awareness of current developments and initiatives in the speciality
- • Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
- • Knowledge of medical terminology and procedures
Confidentiality
Essential criteria
- • Can maintain confidentiality
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- • Ability to manage high pressure situations in a clinical setting
- • Can prioritise workload
- • Willingness to work flexibly to deliver clinically effective and cost effective healthcare
- • Demonstrates the values and behaviours of the Trust
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of their own strengths and weakness
- Understanding of the Trust values
Language Requirements
Essential criteria
- • Be able to speak English as necessary to undertake the role
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Kamy Thavanesan
- Job title
- Consultant Physician in Stroke and Acute Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
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