Physician's Associate in ENT

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the ENT Department at the Royal Berkshire Hospital as a Head and Neck Physician Associate. The ENT department has moved to split site working and has significantly increased its workforce as a result of continued service demand. This unlocks new opportunities for another Physician Associate to join the team as a valued and vital member of the department. You would have a role in the delivery of both acute and elective services for ENT. The department has employed a PA since 2019, with a second PA joining in January 2023; the role has been shown to significantly increase continiuity of care to patients and colleagues.

Main duties of the job

This PA role will have a particular focus on Head and Neck cancer care, supporting the 2 week wait pathway. This will support improved care delivery targets and patient pathway flow. They will be supporting cancer triaging, monitoring and patient diagnosis. The successful applicant will work alongside a team of consultants and a multi-disciplinary team.

In the acute service, the PA will be attached to the Surgeon of the Week on call and together they will form the backbone of this acute ENT service including supporting the ENT Assessment Unit. This will allow doctors in training to be released to perform tasks and roles which add greater educational value, as well as service roles benefiting both them and the department. The PA's will also add much needed continuity to the ever changing team of junior doctors as they rotate through ENT and the RBH.

The post holder will be required to attend clinical governance and other team meetings pertinent to the role. The job will involve a good mix of acute and elective work to ensure balance. There will be plenty of scope for career development in the fields of teaching and research both in which the ENT department currently excels.

About us

The Royal Berkshire Hospital achieved Foundation Trust status on 1st June 2006. It was the first Foundation Trust in the South Central Strategic Health Authority. The Trust has a successful track record of delivering high quality acute medical and surgical services for 500,000 patients across West Berkshire. The Trust is one of the largest general hospital Trusts in the country and is Reading's biggest employer.

The hospital provides all those services normally associated with a very large District General Hospital. The hospital provides services on a single site for all the major specialities including Accident and Emergency, Trauma and Orthopaedics, Intensive Care, Gynaecology and Obstetrics, Genitourinary Medicine, Ophthalmology, ENT, Maxillo-Facial surgery, paediatrics (including a NICU), general medicine (including all major medical specialities including CCU, Renal Unit, ITU and gastroenterology), radiotherapy and oncology, and all the general surgical specialities.

The trust provides several services Berkshire-wide (eg Ophthalmology, renal). Following the principle of care closer to home, the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust offers services from many locations, including King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, Windsor dialysis unit, West Berkshire Community Hospital, Royal Berkshire Bracknell Healthspace, Townlands Hospital, Henley and there are visiting clinics in Wallingford and Wantage.

Employer details

Employer name

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust

Craven Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust

Craven Road

Reading

RG1 5AN

Employer's website

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

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