Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialist

Integrated Care System; Derby; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization is hiring a Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialist to provide expert nursing care and support for Stroke patients at the Royal Derby Hospital. The role demands a registered nurse with acute experience and emphasizes leadership, communication, and clinical decision-making. This position offers development opportunities and is subject to a Disclosure and Barring Service check.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Qualifications

• A candidate must be a Registered Nurse with current acute experience.
• Knowledge of up-to-date national and local guidelines is essential.
• Autonomous working and clinical decision-making skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Provide an expert specialist nursing service for Stroke patients.
• Assess patients with suspected Stroke and refer to appropriate area.
• Support junior members of the team.

Skills

Stroke and/or Emergency Department Experience

Leadership in clinical setting at B6 or above

Excellent communication

Current acute experience

Education

NMC Registered Nurse

Tools

ILS

Job description

Go back University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialist

The closing date is 20 August 2025

An opportunity has arisen for 2 experienced nurses to join our well established Stroke team at the Royal Derby Hospital. This team is a valuable source of knowledge and resource in Stroke across the trust, assessing, managing, treating and advising on Acute Stroke Care in numerous different settings.

The candidate would be expected to work alongside the Stroke MDT to support and deliver a continually expanding high standard of expert knowledge and care to Stroke patients who enter the trust. It is essential that the candidate is a Registered Nurse with current acute experience. A knowledge of up to date national and local guidelines is essential, as well as being an excellent communicator and team member. The role will involve autonomous working and clinical decision making, implementing trust guidelines as well as providing expert support, knowledge and advice on potentially complex Stroke patients to medical and nursing staff across the trust.

They will be given the support and guidance to fulfil this role and it provides an excellent opportunity for personal development into a specialist nurse role, through competency packages, nurse prescribing and clinical decision making modules supported.

Main duties of the job

To work within agreed role responsibilities escalating clinical issues for appropriate medical review. To provide an expert specialist nursing service.

Receives and prioritises direct referrals to Stroke across the trust. Assess patients with suspected Stroke and refer to appropriate area. Provide expert nursing advice and support to patient and carers. To support junior members of the team.

Closing Date of Applications: 20 August 2025

Interview Date: 03 September 2025

About us

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

Job responsibilities

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Your application (for shortlisting purposes) is assessed based on the Person Specification in the job advert (below).

Person Specification

• NMC Registered Nurse
• Stroke and/ or Emergency Department Experience
• ILS
• Leadership in clinical setting at B6 or above

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.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust