Band 7 Physician Associate - Emergency Medicine

Job summary

The Role

We are looking to appoint enthusiastic and motivated Physician Associates look to start a career in Urgent and Emergency Care. The appointees will join us as part of a significant expansion in our medical and nursing workforce, an investment which is integral to our Urgent and Emergency Care Improvement Program.

The posts will be based in our Emergency Departments but will rotate through Acute Medicine and other Emergency and Acute care specialties over a three year time frame.

Applicants must be registered with the Royal College of Physician's Faculty of Physician Associates.

Our Emergency Departments

Queens Hospital in Romford is a modern DGH also providing regional specialist services in Neurosurgery and Stroke.King George Hospital in Ilford provides DGH services to our local population in a recently refurbished modern emergency department environment.

Together our Emergency Department care for in excess of 180,000 type one patients through well-appointed Resuscitation rooms, Majors Areas, Emergency Decision Unit/SDECs and dedicated Children's Emergency Departments on our two sites. Both departments are supported by co-located Urgent Treatment Centres allowing the Emergency Departments to focus on patients presenting with emergency needs.

Main duties of the job

The new BHRUT Urgent and Emergency Care Physician Associates program is based in BHRUT's Emergency Departments but is designed to give Physician Associates a broad range of experience in Emergency, Urgent and Acute Care.

The key focus for these posts is for the Physician Associate to develop their clinical skills in assessing and managing patients presenting with conditions requiring emergency care. The posts are designed as a three-year rotation at the end of which the Physician Associate will have the option of joining our developing Senior Physician Associate program.

About us

Under the leadership of our Chair Jacqui Smith and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, we provide care for the residents of three of the most diverse London boroughs. More than half of our 7,500 strong workforce are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups and most live in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge. We also provide healthcare services to people in south west Essex, and specialist neurosciences services to the whole of the county.

Our services include all the major specialties of large acute hospitals, operating from two main sites - King George Hospital in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We also provide outpatient services at Brentwood Community Hospital, Barking Hospital, Loxford Polyclinic, and Harold Wood Polyclinic. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London.

As we recover from Covid-19, we're proud to be leading the way nationally in reducing the time our patients wait to get the treatment they need. The pandemic provided the drive forour teams to innovate and change.

We know we have more work to do to improve waiting times for urgent and emergency care, and our performance against the four-hour emergency access standard remains challenged, in comparison to many other London trusts.

We are particularly proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre; Radiotherapy Centre; Hyper Acute Stroke Unit; and dedicated breast care service at King George Hospital. We're also pleased to be part of the NEL Cancer Alliance.

Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Cross site

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM70AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Cross site

Rom Valley Way

Romford

RM70AG

Employer's website

https://www.bhrhospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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