Consultant In Stroke Medicine
Northumbria Healthcare Nhs Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Consultant in Stroke Medicine to join a high-performing service. The role covers HASU and Stroke Recovery Units with patient-centered rehabilitation across NSECH and satellite sites, delivering hyperacute and outpatient care.
The post offers flexible working patterns, with potential part-time arrangement and a focus on clinical leadership, education, and service development within a forward-thinking NHS trust.
Qualifications
- MRCP (UK) or equivalent required.
- Fully registered on the GMC Specialist Register or eligible within 6 months of CCT.
- Extensive experience in hyperacute/acute and rehabilitation stroke medicine.
- Full accreditation in a parent specialty (geriatrics, acute medicine, neurology, clinical pharmacology) with appropriate Royal College.
- Dual accreditation in a parent specialty and stroke medicine is desirable.
- Higher degree advantageous.
- Experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
Responsibilities
- Provide HASU resident consultant cover 12 hours with overnight on-call from home.
- Lead assessment and management of patients with suspected stroke and TIA.
- Oversee care of all inpatients within the unit.
- Support neurovascular outpatient care including rapid-access assessment and follow-up.
Skills
Education
Job description
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint a Consultant in Stroke Medicine (full-time or part-time) to join our team of eight consultants delivering high-quality specialist stroke care to around 1,100 stroke admissions annually.
The successful candidate will contribute to the delivery of hyperacute stroke services and rapid-access ambulatory neurovascular assessment through our innovative Brainsafe pathway at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH). They will also play a key role in providing subacute stroke care, inpatient rehabilitation and neurovascular outpatient services across our sites at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham General Hospitals.
The service benefits from rapid access to comprehensive neurovascular imaging, including CT, CT angiography (CTA), CT perfusion (CTP), MRI and carotid Doppler ultrasound, enabling timely diagnosis and treatment decisions.
This post offers an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking, high-performing stroke service with a strong track record of innovation, service development and quality improvement.
Opportunities to develop additional clinical responsibilities will be supported and can be tailored to the successful candidate's specialty background, expertise and professional interests.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
During HASU weeks, the post holder provides
- 12 hour resident cover with overnight on-call support from home.
- senior clinical leadership for the assessment and management of patients presenting with suspected stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA).
- oversees the care of all inpatients within the unit
- works closely with Stroke Nurse Practitioners assessing patients presenting through the Emergency Department.
During Stroke Recovery Unit weeks the post holder provides
- senior clinical leadership for in-patient stroke care and rehabilitation
- multidisciplinary team leadership
- Neurovascular outpatient care including both rapid-access assessment and longer-term follow-up for patients recovering from stroke and TIA.
The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops.
A typical week consists of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs), including an allocation of 1.5 for Supported Professional Activities (SPAs). Additional SPAs will be available for extra managerial, teaching, research or educational supervision activities, dependent upon service need and negotiated through job planning. Weekend duties are included in the 10 PAs and result in the equivalent time off in lieu. Overnight on call from home is remunerated by the higher band (5%) intensity payment. A proposed job plan has been outlined in Appendix 2 and will be agreed on commencement of appointment.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
The service manages approximately 1,100 stroke admissions annually. On a typical day, the stroke team assesses around three new stroke admissions, two to three stroke mimics and two to three high-risk TIA presentations.
Our dedicated Hyperacute Stroke Unit (HASU) at NSECH comprises 11 monitored beds and serves as the regional front door for acute stroke assessment and treatment. Patients are typically managed within the HASU for 24 to 48 hours before transfer to one of the Trusts Stroke Recovery Units. During HASU weeks, the post holder will provide resident consultant cover between 08:00 and 20:00, with overnight on-call support from home. Supported by our highly experienced 24/7 Stroke Nurse Practitioner team, the consultant will provide senior clinical leadership for the assessment and management of patients presenting with suspected stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA).
Within each HASU shift, the post holder will oversee the care of all inpatients within the unit, supported by resident medical staff and a Physician Associate, while working closely with Stroke Nurse Practitioners to assess patients presenting through the Emergency Department. The service benefits from rapid access to comprehensive neurovascular imaging, including CT, CT angiography (CTA), CT perfusion (CTP), MRI and carotid Doppler ultrasound, enabling timely diagnosis and treatment decisions.
Outside HASU commitments, the post holder will provide consultant leadership on one of the Trusts Stroke Recovery Units, supporting the delivery of high-quality inpatient stroke care and rehabilitation within a well-established multidisciplinary team. Neurovascular outpatient activity takes place across the Trusts base sites and includes both rapid-access assessment and longer-term follow up for patients recovering from stroke and TIA. Each Stroke Recovery Unit is supported by resident medical staff and an experienced multidisciplinary team, ensuring comprehensive, patient-centred care throughout the recovery pathway.
The post will be flexibly time-tabled to meet the demands of the service and the timing of sessions may change as the service develops.
A typical week would consist of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs), including an allocation of 1.5 for Supported Professional Activities (SPAs). Additional SPAs will be available for extra managerial, teaching, research or educational supervision activities, dependent upon service need and negotiated through job planning. Weekend duties are included in the 10 PAs and result in the equivalent time off in lieu. Weekend HASU working is shared equitably across the consultant team and operates in line with the established weekday model. Overnight on call from home is remunerated by the higher band (5%) intensity payment. A proposed job plan has been outlined in Appendix 2 and will be agreed on commencement of appointment.
- MRCP (UK) or equivalent
- Fully registered on the UK General Medical Council's Specialist Register or Specialist Registrars may apply if within 6 months of CCT at date of application
- Extensive experience in hyperacute / acute and rehab stroke medicine
- Full accreditation in a parent specialty (e.g. geriatrics, acute medicine, neurology, clinical pharmacology) with the appropriate Royal College
- Full GMC Registration
- Dual accreditation in a parent specialty and stroke medicine
- Higher degree
- Clinical training and experience in the relevant specialty, equivalent to that required to gain entry to the UK Certificate of Completed Training (CCT).
- Experience of and commitment to teaching undergraduate and postgraduate medical staff.
- Experience of and commitment to medical audit
- Demonstrable evidence of lifelong learning.
- Experience of audit management
- Educational Qualification
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).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer name: Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Wansbeck General Hospital, Woodhorn Lane, Ashington, NE63 9JJ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
For questions about the job, contact:
Consultant in Stroke Medicine & Head of Service
Dr Mark Garside
mark.garside@nhct.nhs.uk
07976739503
Date posted: 25 September 2026
Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
Grade: Consultant
Salary: £113,565 to £150,569 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 319-8266144RW
Job locations: Wansbeck General Hospital, Woodhorn Lane, Ashington, NE63 9JJ, United Kingdom
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).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
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