Locum Consultant in Stroke

NHS; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 109,000 - 146,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Stevenage is seeking a locum consultant to join their Stroke department. The role involves maintaining patient-centered care and participating in strategic planning. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in Stroke Medicine and essential qualifications including GMC registration. The position offers a salary range of £109,725 to £145,478 annually with full-time hours.

Benefits

Flexible working patterns

Support for continuous education

Qualifications

• Essential: Broad range of experience in Stroke Medicine.
• Essential: Competent in Stroke Thrombolysis.
• Desirable: Postgraduate academic degree.

Responsibilities

• Maintain high-quality patient centered care.
• Participate in strategic planning and management.
• Conduct teaching and training within the multidisciplinary service.

Skills

Stroke Medicine experience

Clinical governance engagement

Ability to teach clinical skills

Situational awareness

Education

Full GMC registration

College Membership (MRCP)

Advanced Life Support qualification

Job description

Overview

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
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

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.

Details

• Date posted: 23 September 2025
• Pay scheme: Hospital medical and dental staff
• Grade: Consultant
• Salary: £109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum
• Contract: Locum
• Duration: 1 year
• Working pattern: Full-time
• Reference number: 361-M&D-7465393
• Job locations: Lister Hospital, Coreys Mill Lane, Stevenage, SG1 4AB

Job responsibilities

In the overview above you have read an offer of the role and general information about main duties. Please see the attached job description for full duties, responsibilities, and reporting relationships.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

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

Desirable: Postgraduate academic degree; College Fellowship

Previous Experience

• Essential: Broad range of experience in Stroke Medicine (GIM, Geriatric Medicine, Neurology, Acute and Hyperacute Stroke)
• Essential: Fully competent in Stroke Thrombolysis; delivered thrombolysis to a minimum of 20 patients
• Essential: Experience of supervising undergraduates, doctors in training, and other colleagues
• Essential: Ability to offer and be accountable for full and independent expert diagnostic opinion
• Essential: Evidence of leading on patient safety issues and achieving changes in practice
• Essential: Published papers and original work in peer reviewed journals
• Essential: Understanding of audit, evidence-based practice, and clinical quality improvement initiatives
• Essential: 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 of 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

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check: This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the DBS.

Certificate of Sponsorship: 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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

Lister Hospital, Coreys Mill Lane, Stevenage, SG1 4AB

Employer's website: https://www.enherts-tr.nhs.uk/