Gastroenterology Physician's Associate

The successful candidate will work with ten other Consultant Gastroenterologists and seven Consultant Hepatologists in providing general and sub-specialty services through the Trust to its surrounding community and other referring hospitals in the region. The Care Group spans the full range of inpatient, outpatient and endoscopy services and is also supported at a clinical level by specialist nurses, at least four clinical SpRs, research SpRs and four nurse endoscopists.
The appointee will have support of the delivery of care for patients with gastrointestinal disease along with nine other colleagues and will deliver 2-3 outpatient clinics per week under the supervision of a named consultant. The casemix could include those referred along the urgent suspected cancer pathway and those referred via the Gastroenterology Clinical Assessment Service (CAS). The post holder may be required to work at either at the St. George's main site, or at the community sites of Queen Mary Hospital, Roehampton, or the Nelson Health Centre, South Wimbledon., The PA role has been developed to work alongside the luminal specialist doctors. They will be trained to assess and examine gastroenterology patients, present them, initiate and interpret investigations, and recommend treatment. They will be expected to liaise with other professionals and specialities as required and complete necessary documentation relating to their patients.
There will also be opportunities to develop specialist skills, such as hydrogen breath tests and capsule endoscopy.
They will be supervised by a designated consultant and will also have individual mentors to overview their career development.
PAs will represent the department at local and external meetings as appropriate., 1. To exercise a high degree of personal autonomy when assessing, managing and planning care for a caseload of specific gastroenterology patients with dyspepsia, upper GI TWR referrals and anaemia.
2. To develop extensive specialist knowledge and experience in gastroenterology, acting as a resource to the clinical team, allied health professionals, and PCT.
3. To contribute to achieving and maintaining targets for TWR referrals to
4. To support our work related to national audits such as the IBD audit
5. To support recruitment into clinical research being carried out in the department

With over 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, we are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Our main site, St George's Hospital in Tooting - one of the country's principal teaching hospitals - is shared with St George's, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George's Hospital also hosts the St George's, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, we provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.