Stroke Trainee/ Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Band 7/8A

United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals Nhs Trust; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 49,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Research opportunities

Education and training for MDT

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust in Lincolnshire is seeking a Trainee or Qualified Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the stroke ACP team. You will autonomously assess patients with suspected stroke, order investigations, and plan treatments in line with current guidelines.

The role supports expansion of acute stroke services and opportunities to participate in stroke research and quality improvement projects.

Qualifications

• Essential: Substantial post registration relevant experience.
• Essential: NIHSS qualification.
• Essential: Post registration qualification or training relevant to speciality [Degree].
• Essential: MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice.
• Essential: Registered Independent Non‑Medical Prescriber.
• Essential: Dysphagia Assessment Skills.
• Essential: Evidence of teaching, supervision and assessment skills.
• Essential: ALS Provider.
• Essential: First degree (BSc) in an appropriate healthcare field.

Responsibilities

• Triage all stroke and TIA referrals.
• Autonomously perform initial assessments of patients with suspected stroke.
• Select and request investigations; interpret results to plan treatment per guidelines.
• Identify patients eligible for reperfusion therapies and facilitate access.
• Perform specialist stroke assessments (e.g., NIHSS, dysphagia).
• Work to SSNAP standards to ensure high quality care.
• Contribute to MDT working environment.
• Provide specialist stroke education and training to the stroke MDT and other clinical staff.

Skills

Dignity in care

Values & behaviours

Education

NIHSS qualification

Post-registration qualification

MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice

RN/Healthcare professional registration

Dysphagia assessment skills

Job description

Closing date: 26 October 2026

Job summary

Due to the career progression of the current post-holder, we are excited to offer an opportunity for either a Trainee or Qualified ACP to join our dynamic and expanding stroke ACP team.

The successful candidate will work autonomously to complete initial assessments, select appropriate investigations and interpret the results of these to plan treatments for patients presenting with suspected stroke, contributing to the delivery of high quality, evidence based care across the stroke pathway.

The successful candidate will be part of a forward-thinking team at an exciting time for stroke services, with the ongoing expansion of acute stroke service provision.

We are an active research site, offering opportunities to participate in a range of stroke research studies, including supporting participant recruitment.

The team has a strong focus on innovation and quality improvement, with recent collaboration with NHS Elect to explore new ways of increasing reperfusion rates for eligible stroke patients, as well as several other active quality improvement projects working across emergency care pathways.

Informal visits are welcome.

Main duties of the job

• Effectively triage all stroke and TIA referrals
• Autonomously perform initial assessments of patients presenting with suspected stroke
• Appropriately select and request investigations, interpreting the results to formulate treatment plans in line with current clinical guidelines.
• Identify patients eligible for reperfusion therapies and facilitate the patients' access to these treatments/interventions, contributing to timely decision making.
• Perform specialist stroke assessments such as a National Institute of Health Stroke Scale [NIHSS] and dysphagia assessments.
• Work in line with SSNAP standards to ensure high quality evidence based care
• Actively contribute to the MDT working environment
• Provide specialist stroke education and training to members of the stroke MDT and across other clinical specialities.

About us

Lincoln Hospital is a thriving university city and with the opening of the medical school, it provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust has been granted teaching hospital status, after demonstrating evidence to significant teaching commitment. From now on it will be known as United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the communities in the South Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialties and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.

Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area. It provides ambulatory paediatric and accident and emergency services.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) have come together in a Group arrangement, with the goal of improving the care provided to patients across the county.

This will not constitute a formal merger of the two organisations, but will bring the Trusts together under a single Board and Executive Leadership Team, with the goal of improving the care that is provided to patients both in the community and in hospitals across Lincolnshire. Both Trusts will retain their separate statutory names and legal obligations.

The Group will be known as Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group (LCHG).

Details

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £49,387 to £64,750 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time

Job locations: Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 5QY, United Kingdom

Person Specification

Previous Experience

• Essential: Substantial post registration relevant experience
• Desirable: Management and leadership experience
• Desirable: Completed portfolio of supervised practice in stroke

Knowledge/skills/aptitudes

• Essential: Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda
• Essential: Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework

Qualifications

• Essential: Current Professional registration within area of practice
• Essential: NIHSS qualification
• Essential: Post registration qualification or training relevant to speciality [Degree]
• Essential: MSc in advanced clinical practice
• Essential: Registered Independent Non-Medical Prescriber
• Essential: Dysphagia Assessment Skills
• Essential: Evidence of teaching, supervision and assessment skills
• Essential: ALS Provider
• Essential: First degree ie BSc in appropriate field of healthcare to carry out job role such as Nursing, Paramedic, Physio etc. Exclusion OT and Social Work
• Desirable: Mentor/assessor qualification
• Desirable: Instructor on ALS

Specific Requirements

• Essential: Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex health conditions and ensure effective interventions are actioned in a timely manner.
• Essential: Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures and guidelines
• Essential: Able to work with undifferentiated and undiagnosed healthcare problems.
• Essential: Participation in research or audit projects
• Essential: Active involvement in departmental operational development
• Essential: Ability to schedule academic workload and work commitments
• Essential: Able to identify learning opportunities
• Essential: Able to organise own learning and development
• Essential: Ability to provide education, complete research and audit
• Essential: Able to undertake required clinical duties/procedures
• Essential: Ability to manoeuvre patients and perform clinical examinations as required
• Essential: Ability to undertake computer and other equipment skills

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.

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. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

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

Employer details

Employer name: United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: Lincoln County Hospital, Greetwell Road, Lincoln, LN2 5QY, United Kingdom

Employer's website: Apply through our website

For questions about the job, contact: Lead Stroke Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Nicola Hewett, [e-mail], 07955297700