Stroke Specialist Nurse

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Peterborough seeks a Band 6 Stroke Nurse Specialist to join their Integrated Stroke Service. Responsibilities include managing complex stroke patients, providing high-quality rehabilitation, and ensuring patient-centered care across various settings. Applicants must have relevant nursing qualifications, experience, and a valid UK driving license. This role offers opportunities for professional development in a multidisciplinary team environment.

Qualifications

• Must have relevant post-graduate clinical experience in Stroke & rehabilitation.
• Experience of developing & delivering training to colleagues is required.
• Documented evidence of own continuing professional development is necessary.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist stroke nursing assessments and develop care plans.
• Manage a caseload of complex stroke patients.
• Support and train colleagues in conducting reviews.

Skills

Advanced communication skills

Ability to work flexibly as part of a team

Good time management

Knowledge in stroke rehabilitation

Education

Degree or equivalent in Nursing

Current NMC Registration

Documented evidence of continuing professional development

Tools

SystmOne

Job description

Go back Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust

Stroke Specialist Nurse

The closing date is 17 December 2025

We are currently seeking a passionate Band 6 Stroke Nurse Specialist to join our Integrated Stroke Early Supported Discharge & Community Neuro Rehabilitation Service. Our integrated service provides stroke rehabilitation and community neurorehabilitation support to service users with complex needs.

As a Stroke Nurse Specialist, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a multidisciplinary team of highly skilled & experienced professionals, including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychologists, Neuro Rehab Assistants, and other healthcare professionals.

You will be responsible for managing a clinical caseload across Cambridgeshire & playing a key role in shaping the service, as well as supporting the development of your colleagues. You will carry out comprehensive nursing assessments and deliver evidence-based interventions. You'll work closely with the wider Multidisciplinary Team to ensure coordinated, patient-centred care.

You should feel confident working across different settings, including patients' homes, inpatient wards, or community gyms, and be comfortable using virtual consultations to support your caseload. A smartphone and laptop will be provided to assist you in your role.

If you are flexible, adaptable, and able to travel independently across your work locality--and have access to a car for work purposes--we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.

• Provide high-quality specialist stroke advice & rehabilitation to stroke patients, supporting their independence and recovery.
• Manage a caseload of complex stroke patients, ensuring effective case management.
• Offer specialist assessments and guidance on diagnosis, medications, investigations, recovery, prevention, and rehabilitation.
• Advocate for patients, ensuring they receive necessary care and treatment.
• Support and train colleagues in conducting six-month reviews and contribute to ongoing training initiatives.
• Maintain compliance with local and national clinical standards (RCP & NICE).
• Utilise outcome measures and service data to demonstrate clinical effectiveness.
• Ensure high standards of governance, clinical safety, and patient experience.
• Identify and mitigate risks within the service.
• Continue professional development and training.

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About us

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high‑calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under‑represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities

• Conduct specialist stroke nursing assessments and develop evidence-based care plans.
• Provide individualised patient‑centred information on stroke diagnosis, investigations, and treatments.
• Offer secondary prevention advice and support interdisciplinary rehabilitation planning.
• Work collaboratively with acute stroke services, primary care, and community colleagues.
• Manage complex cases involving comorbidities and liaise with relevant professionals for optimal patient outcomes.
• Deliver emotional support and conduct mood assessments (e.g., PHQ‑9, GAD‑7).
• Identify rehabilitation goals using a multidisciplinary approach.
• Provide guidance on neuropathic pain, vision assessment, spasticity, and cognitive effects of stroke.
• Provide continence initial assessment & advice post stroke and make specialist referrals where necessary.
• Work across various settings, including patient homes, inpatient rehabilitation beds, care homes, and community locations.

Person Specification

Education / Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent e.g. Diploma entry level qualification into the Nursing profession.
• Current NMC Registration
• Professional knowledge and training that is stroke/neurological specific.
• Documented evidence of own continuing professional development
• Willingness to undertake Fieldwork/Practice Educator qualification.
• Member RCN

Experience

• Relevant post‑graduate clinical experience in Stroke & rehabilitation
• Clinical experience working in stroke (acute/ rehabilitation)
• Clinical Supervisor
• Proven record of NHS experience in a variety of settings
• Involvement in regional or national clinical bodies e.g. clinical interest groups, conferences.
• Experience of being involved in research study.
• Experience of developing & delivering training to colleagues

Skills & Abilities

• Ability to review clinical pathways and implement change.
• Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
• Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.
• Advanced communication skills and report writing using standard keyboard skills using packages such as word.
• Able to assess plan and implement care.
• Good time management and prioritisation skills
• Able to impart skills/knowledge to others within formal/informal settings.
• Support junior staff and non‑registered staff
• Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
• Recognises the limits of own knowledge & ability within the role and seeks and uses professional support appropriately.
• Understands the principle of confidentiality
• Knowledge of relevant outcome measures
• Knowledge in stroke rehabilitation /neurology
• SystmOne
• Awareness of equipment providers e.g.: NRS.
• Evidence of presenting at a local or regional level or willingness to develop skills.

Physical Requirements

• The ability to kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments.
• The ability to use moving and handling equipment to manoeuvre patients.
• Must have access to a personal car and the ability to drive independently around the locality, due to the radius covered and lack of public transport in some area

Other

• Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings.
• Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems.
• In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down and has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress.
• Recognise and upholds Trusts PRIDE values
• Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
• Willingness to be flexible in in approach and attitude.
• Flexibility to work over seven days per week

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.

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust