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
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.
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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 excessmileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normalcommute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or Nationalterms and conditions.
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.
This advert closes on Thursday 17 Apr 2025
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