Stroke Consultant Physician

NHS; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) invites applications for a Consultant Stroke Physician to join a 10 programmed activities post across the stroke service, providing leadership in hyper-acute, acute and rehabilitation care.

The role operates within a 24/7 thrombolysis and regional thrombectomy network, with rotations between City Campus and Queen’s Medical Centre and a development plan including 8 PA clinical and 2 SPA in the first year.

Qualifications

• MRCP required or equivalent.
• Higher professional qualification.
• Evidence of clinical audit activity and teaching ability.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients admitted under the stroke service across hyper-acute, acute and rehabilitation pathways.
• Lead and develop the stroke pathway with the 24/7 thrombolysis service and thrombectomy network.
• Contribute to education, audit, and research through NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre and NUH/University of Nottingham.
• Travel between City Campus and Queen’s Medical Centre as required.

Skills

Stroke medicine

Thrombolysis

Leadership

Teaching

Auditing

Communication

Education

MRCP

Higher professional degree

Job description

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

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.

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

You will be joining a dedicated, diverse and dynamic team of professionals providing outstanding stroke care and internationally recognised Stroke research within the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, a partnership between NUH and the University of Nottingham.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full range of Stroke emergency and elective patients are admitted to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the appointee will be responsible for the management of those patients admitted under their care.

The following draft Job Plan reflects our best assessment of what the final plan will be, based on 10 PAs. For all new consultants to NUH, we offer 8PA’s DCC and 2 SPA’s for the first year.

Person specification

• Full GMC registration
• CCT expected within 6 months of interview date OR via CESR route, must have confirmation of RCP approval to be entered onto the Specialist Register
• Eligible to be included on the specialist registrar

Professional Qualifications

• MRCP
• Higher professional degree

Teaching, Audit & Research

• Evidence of participation in Clinical Audit
• Able to teach and support junior staff effectively
• Original Research Publications Higher teaching degree or qualification or training

Personal Skills/Qualities

• Able to work flexibly in a changing health service
• Able to use the Trust’s IT support systems

Clinical Skills/Experience

• Extensive experience in Stroke Medicine
• Experience in hyper acute stroke care and trained and experienced in thrombolysis
• Comprehensive knowledge of current issues in general internal medicine.
• Evidenced technical skills as described in the job description
• Specific training in communication skills
• Specific training in patient safety and/or human factors

Management Skills

• Able to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery.
• Able to work in a team.
• Proven leadership skills, able to lead a team effectively.
• Higher management degree or qualification or training
• Experience of change management

Practical Requirements

• Ability to travel between City Hospital Campus and Queen’s Medical Centre campus

Please note that this post does not attract relocation expenses.

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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Kailash Krishnan Job title Consultant Stroke Physician and Head of Service Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01159691169 Additional information

Candidates are encouraged to make arrangements to visit the Trust, and should contact Dr Krishnan in the first instance if they wish to do so.