Job summary
Join Our Visionary Stroke Team - Consultant Opportunity
Location: Humber Health Partnership (HUTH site based)Specialty: Stroke MedicineContract: Full-time | 10 PAs (8 DCC + 2 SPA)On-call: Flexible, remote access-enabled, with compensatory time off
Shape the Future of Stroke Care
Are you a dynamic and forward-thinking clinician ready to make a real impact? The Humber Health Partnership is seeking Consultant Stroke Physicians to join our expanding, innovative stroke service. This is your chance to be part of a high-performing team delivering cutting-edge hyperacute stroke care across one of the largest NHS partnerships in the country.
Main duties of the job
What You'll Do
Lead the assessment and management of stroke patients across the care pathway
Participate in hyperacute stroke treatments including: - Thrombolysis - Mechanical thrombectomy - Intracerebral haemorrhage management
Contribute to clinical trials and research, including hyperacute stroke studies
Provide on-call support with flexible, mostly remote coverage via telemedicine
Supervise and mentor junior doctors and medical students
Academic & Leadership Opportunities
Teach within the Hull York Medical School (HYMS) curriculum
Supervise trainees from FY1 to specialty registrar level
Take on a management or educational leadership role with full training and support
Additional SPA time available for research, education, or service development
About us
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- oFull registration with the GMC
- oOn the GMC Specialist Register (or expected inclusion within 6-months) for Stroke
Desirable
Qualifications and training
Essential
- oCCT/CESR in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine or Geriatric medicine or Neurology
- oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
- oMRCP (UK) or equivalent qualification
- oValid ALS certificate
Desirable
- oCCT in stroke Medicine subspecialty training
- oPostgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
Teaching, audit and research
Essential
- oExperience of supervising junior medical staff
- oCommitted to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- oEvidence of participation in audit
- oAbility to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care of individual patients.
Desirable
- oEvidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- oExperience of teaching/training in clinical courses: e.g. IMPACT Course Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- oOriginal peer-reviewed research publications
Qualifications and training
Essential
- oCCT/CESR in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine or Geriatric medicine or Neurology
- oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
- oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
- oMRCP (UK) or equivalent qualification
- oValid ALS certificate
Desirable
- oCCT in stroke Medicine subspecialty training
- oPostgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD.
Clinical Experience
Essential
- oDemonstrable commitment to Acute Medicine and stroke medicine
- oAbility to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
- oAbility to offer sound clinical opinion on stroke management including thrombolysis, thrombectomy and TIAs
- oAbility to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Desirable
- oExperience of delivering acute medical care in large, high throughput Assessment/ Admissions Units in the UK
- oExperience in Ambulatory Care
Management and Administrative Experience
Essential
- oAbility to manage and lead medical teams
- oAbility to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- oAbility to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable
- oAbility to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oAble to work flexibly in a changing health service.
- oDemonstrate a good manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears.
- oAbility to work in a multidisciplinary team.
- oAbility to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals
- oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable
- oAbility to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines.
Person Specification
Professional Registration
Essential
- oFull registration with the GMC
- oOn the GMC Specialist Register (or expected inclusion within 6-months) for Stroke
Desirable
Qualifications and training
Essential
- oCCT/CESR in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine or Geriatric medicine or Neurology
- oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
- oMRCP (UK) or equivalent qualification
- oValid ALS certificate
Desirable
- oCCT in stroke Medicine subspecialty training
- oPostgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD
Teaching, audit and research
Essential
- oExperience of supervising junior medical staff
- oCommitted to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
- oEvidence of participation in audit
- oAbility to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care of individual patients.
Desirable
- oEvidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
- oExperience of teaching/training in clinical courses: e.g. IMPACT Course Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
- oOriginal peer-reviewed research publications
Qualifications and training
Essential
- oCCT/CESR in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine or Geriatric medicine or Neurology
- oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
- oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
- oMRCP (UK) or equivalent qualification
- oValid ALS certificate
Desirable
- oCCT in stroke Medicine subspecialty training
- oPostgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD.
Clinical Experience
Essential
- oDemonstrable commitment to Acute Medicine and stroke medicine
- oAbility to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
- oAbility to offer sound clinical opinion on stroke management including thrombolysis, thrombectomy and TIAs
- oAbility to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
Desirable
- oExperience of delivering acute medical care in large, high throughput Assessment/ Admissions Units in the UK
- oExperience in Ambulatory Care
Management and Administrative Experience
Essential
- oAbility to manage and lead medical teams
- oAbility to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
- oAbility to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
Desirable
- oAbility to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery
Personal Attributes
Essential
- oAble to work flexibly in a changing health service.
- oDemonstrate a good manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears.
- oAbility to work in a multidisciplinary team.
- oAbility to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals
- oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
Desirable
- oAbility to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
