Locum Consultant in Stroke

NHS; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Hertfordshire is seeking a Locum Consultant in Stroke to enhance their medical services. The role involves delivering high-quality care, collaborating with specialists, and leading education efforts. Ideal candidates should have GMC registration and experience in Stroke Medicine. This position supports a commitment to patient-centered care and continuous medical education.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum of GMC registration required to practice.
• Experience in Stroke Medicine essential.
• Evidence of teaching and supervising in clinical settings.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high-quality patient-centered care.
• Engage in multidisciplinary team meetings.
• Participate in strategic planning.

Skills

Engagement with clinical governance

Ability to teach clinical skills

Critical appraisal of evidence

Education

Full GMC registration with a licence to practice

College Membership (MRCP)

Postgraduate academic degree

Job description

Go back East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Locum Consultant in Stroke

The closing date is 05 October 2025

Our complete commitment to developing careers means we're looking for proactive, motivated, forward thinking, and dynamic individuals to join our clinical team. This post is an important part of our ongoing development of medical services at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, offering the successful applicant the opportunity to work closely with the existing Stroke physicians to provide a high standard of care across the Trust. We are seeking a locum consultant with enthusiasm, commitment, and drive to work closely with colleagues throughout the organisation and within the community to help lead the organisation.

This is an excellent opportunity within the Stroke department at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust. The department has just been designated a hub (HASU) and will progress from receiving around seven hundred attendances per annum to around eleven hundred.

Responsibilities

• Maintenance of high-quality patient centered care.
• Shared responsibility for the day-to-day management of the service and participation in strategic planning.
• Teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service.
• Active involvement in multidisciplinary team meetings and directorate clinical governance activity.
• Active participation in continuing medical education.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder. Please see attached job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
• College Membership (MRCP) or qualification of an equivalent level
• Advanced Life Support or demonstration of ability to achieve ALS immediately upon appointment
• Postgraduate academic degree
• College Fellowship

Previous Experience

• Broad range of experience in Stroke Medicine in particular: Experience of GIM, Geriatric Medicine and Neurology, Acute and Hyperacute Stroke
• Fully competent in Stroke Thrombolysis
• Delivered thrombolysis to a minimum of 20 patients
• Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training and other colleagues
• Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Can evidence leading on patient safety issues and achieving a change in practice
• Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic principles of audit, evidence based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Demonstrable experience and participation in research

Skills

• Able to evidence engagement with clinical governance and the identification of errors and the learning from errors.
• Evidence engagement with appraisal and revalidation
• Able to show situational awareness and application of good decision making
• Ability to effectively teach clinical skills
• Ability to critically appraise published evidence

Knowledge

• Demonstrate understanding of basic principles of audit, evidence-based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Comprehensive knowledge and insight regarding all the domains within the GMC standards of Good Medical Practice

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.

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust