Job summary
Expected Shortlisting
Date
01/08/2025
Planned Interview
Date
08/08/2025
Are
you a nurse looking for a challenge or a change? Are you looking for a role
which gives you job variety, continuous support, encouragement, and genuine
job satisfaction, then this just could be the job for you.
An
exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join the existing
Brain Attack Team (BATeam) within the Stroke Service at LTHT. Experience in
stroke nursing is not essential, but a willingness to learn and to act FAST
is.
Main duties of the job
You
should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change; our
commitment to you, as forward thinking team, will be individualised clinical
development, access to monthly teachings ensuring you have every opportunity
to enhance your knowledge and skills in stroke. We are able to offer a range
of education and development opportunities, including in-house training and
external courses. You will be expected to participate in audits &
research to help develop and shape the future of stroke care in Leeds and the
UK.
You
will be part of a busy multi-disciplinary team who are dedicated in providing
individualised, evidence based stroke care management. The post holder will
be expected to work both autonomously and closely with stroke clinicians and
across a range of specialities in order to meet the needs of the service.
Ultimately we are searching for a dynamic, highly motivated and passionate
individual committed to high quality patient care. Is this you?
About us
We
admit over 1,300 strokes a year to our hyperacute stroke unit and offer a
challenging and dynamic clinical learning environment dealing with a wide
range of stroke patients, TIAs and mimics. This includes thrombolysis,
thrombectomy and management of primary intracerebral haemorrhage as well as
the delivery of a regional thrombectomy service for West Yorkshire.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'
members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts
are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove
adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the
shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this
process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any
questions.
Leeds
Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk'
members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts
are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove
adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the
shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this
process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any
questions.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are
you a nurse looking for a challenge or a change? Are you looking for a role
which gives you job variety, continuous support, encouragement, and genuine
job satisfaction, then this just could be the job for you.
An
exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join the existing
Brain Attack Team (BATeam) within the Stroke Service at LTHT. Experience in
stroke nursing is not essential, but a willingness to learn and to act FAST
is.
We
admit over 1,300 strokes a year to our hyperacute stroke unit and offer a
challenging and dynamic clinical learning environment dealing with a wide
range of stroke patients, TIAs and mimics. This includes thrombolysis,
thrombectomy and management of primary intracerebral haemorrhage as well as
the delivery of a regional thrombectomy service for West Yorkshire.
You
should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change; our
commitment to you, as forward thinking team, will be individualised clinical
development, access to monthly teachings ensuring you have every opportunity
to enhance your knowledge and skills in stroke. We are able to offer a range
of education and development opportunities, including in-house training and
external courses. You will be expected to participate in audits &
research to help develop and shape the future of stroke care in Leeds and the
UK.
You
will be part of a busy multi-disciplinary team who are dedicated in providing
individualised, evidence based stroke care management. The post holder will
be expected to work both autonomously and closely with stroke clinicians and
across a range of specialities in order to meet the needs of the service.
Ultimately we are searching for a dynamic, highly motivated and passionate
individual committed to high quality patient care. Is this you?
Job description
Job responsibilities
Are
you a nurse looking for a challenge or a change? Are you looking for a role
which gives you job variety, continuous support, encouragement, and genuine
job satisfaction, then this just could be the job for you.
An
exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join the existing
Brain Attack Team (BATeam) within the Stroke Service at LTHT. Experience in
stroke nursing is not essential, but a willingness to learn and to act FAST
is.
We
admit over 1,300 strokes a year to our hyperacute stroke unit and offer a
challenging and dynamic clinical learning environment dealing with a wide
range of stroke patients, TIAs and mimics. This includes thrombolysis,
thrombectomy and management of primary intracerebral haemorrhage as well as
the delivery of a regional thrombectomy service for West Yorkshire.
You
should be motivated, keen to learn and ready to embrace change; our
commitment to you, as forward thinking team, will be individualised clinical
development, access to monthly teachings ensuring you have every opportunity
to enhance your knowledge and skills in stroke. We are able to offer a range
of education and development opportunities, including in-house training and
external courses. You will be expected to participate in audits &
research to help develop and shape the future of stroke care in Leeds and the
UK.
You
will be part of a busy multi-disciplinary team who are dedicated in providing
individualised, evidence based stroke care management. The post holder will
be expected to work both autonomously and closely with stroke clinicians and
across a range of specialities in order to meet the needs of the service.
Ultimately we are searching for a dynamic, highly motivated and passionate
individual committed to high quality patient care. Is this you?
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Lateral thinking Excellent communication skills Wider knowledge of the issues facing healthcare
Desirable
Additional Requirements
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 1 Nurse NMC Registered Adult
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Lateral thinking Excellent communication skills Wider knowledge of the issues facing healthcare
Desirable
Additional Requirements
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
- Level 1 Nurse NMC Registered Adult
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
