Consultant Stroke Physician

Job summary

If successful you will be joining an enthusiastic and experienced stroke specialist multidisciplinary team as a Consultant in Stroke Medicine.

Our service admits approximately 800 patients with confirmed stroke each year. An out of hours thrombolysis service in provided in partnership with Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH).

A high risk TIA service runs 5 days a week with dedicated same day carotid Doppler and MRI imaging to provide carotid endarterectomy within 48 hours as needed. Weekend service is provided by NUH.

Inpatient services are based at King's Mill Hospital, offering superb facilities for both stroke inpatients and outpatients services.

An integrated unit on Ward 53 and 54, is for hyper-acute, acute and rehabilitation stroke services. Four monitored beds comprise the hyper-acute bay and senior stroke nurses covering are all NIHSS certified and available 24/7 to admit patients directly from A&E as well as assessing potential thrombolysis patients. 25 beds on the stroke ward are for on-going acute management of our stroke patients and on-going rehabilitation, which includes a therapy treatment area.

There is a dedicated Integrated Community Stroke Service (ICSS) who provides intensive rehabilitation within the community. This is supported by physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, clinical physiology and nurse and rehabilitation support workers. On average 40% of the patients admitted to the stroke unit are discharged to the ICSS.

Main duties of the job

Depending on the skills of the successful candidate an opportunity exists to take part in the acute medical on-call.

We are also able to offer an attractive recruitment package to include:

• An attractive recruitment and retention premium (details to be discussed with individual applicants)
• Named Mentor for the first year of employment to facilitate settling in to the new working environment
• Additional allocation of SPA time within the job plan for the first 2 years in order to allow time for service development (typically 7.5:2.5 split between DCC and SPA time)
• Access to additional study leave funding for the first 2 years of employment

Full and Specialist Registration and a license to practice with the GMC is essential. Those trained in the UK should have evidence of higher specialist training leading to CCT or be within 6 months of confirmed entry from date of interview or eligibility for specialist registration (CESR). The ability to work effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team is also essential.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust providing acute and community healthcare services for 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. We are working closely with partners in health and social care through the Mid Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Partnership to take collective responsibility for managing resources, delivering NHS standards, and improving the health of the population we serve.

We put the patient at the centre of everything that we do, and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically led organisation.

In the past four years our staff engagement scores have been the best for Acute Trusts in the Midlands.