Stroke Consultant Physician

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a full-time Consultant Stroke Physician (10 PAs) to work across the stroke service. The post offers joint work across hyper-acute, acute and rehabilitation settings at QMC and the City campus, with 24/7 stroke cover and a regional thrombectomy service.

You will join a multidisciplinary team led by the Head of Service, contributing to service development and extending the existing stroke pathway to maintain national leadership in stroke care.

Responsibilities

• Provide consultant input to hyper-acute stroke, acute stroke, intensive rehabilitation and continuing stroke rehabilitation.
• Contribute to developing the existing stroke pathway and maintaining national leadership in stroke care.

Job description

The post is a full time (10 Programmed Activities) Consultant Stroke Physician role, at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, working across all parts of the stroke service. The Stroke service provides 24/7 cover and currently has seven dedicated Stroke consultants , one clinical Academic, contribution from consultant Neurologists and an Acute Medicine consultant. NUH is the fourth largest acute Trust within the UK, with a busy emergency department at Queens Medical Centre, which is a level 1 Trauma Centre. NUH provide s services to 2.5 million residents of Nottingham and surrounding communities, and specialist services to a further 3-4 million across the region and nationally. The successful applicant will join an enthusiastic and committed team. The Trust is committed to further development of the Stroke service to maintain its long standing position in the forefront of stroke care provision nationally. The post holder will play a key part in developing the existing stroke

pathway, providing consultant input to hyper acute stroke, acute stroke, intensive rehabilitation and continuing stroke rehabilitation.

The Head of Service is Dr Kailash Krishnan and the specialty sits within the Care Group of Medicine.

• 16 bedded hyper acute stroke unit on the QMC campus
• 28 bedded acute rehabilitation stroke unit on the QMC campus
• 18 bedded long-term rehabilitation stroke unit on the City Campus (with 4 winter pressure beds) and 6 community beds
• A fast track TIA clinic (7 days per week)
• Stroke outpatient clinics
• 24/7 thrombolysis service
• A regional Mechanical Thrombectomy service

The stroke service is well supported by 10.5 WTE Stroke registrars who provide stroke cover in a dedicated 24/7 rota. The pool consists of an academic fellow, Stroke clinical fellow, Neurology registrar, Geriatric registrar and Trust Grade registrars.

SpR's take part in the integrated GIM on call rota for when they are responsible to the duty general medical consultant.

Junior medical support is provided by 4 x F1, 2 x F2, 3 x Trust Grade F2, 9 x Trust Grade CT1, 1 x ST (1MT1), 4 x VTS-ST2. All junior staff spend four months attached to the stroke unit and rotate across the stroke wards to ensure they experience all elements of the service.