Stroke Specialist Doctor

Transformationunitgm; Ashford; On-site; GBP 96,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job description

Employer: Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type: NHS

Site: St Peters Hospital

Town: Chertsey

Salary: £96,990 - £107,155 plus £149 HCAS per annum

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 02/05/2025 23:59

Interview date: 29/05/2025

Stroke Specialist Doctor

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialist Grade

Job overview

Join the dedicated stroke team at Ashford & St Peter’s as a Specialist Stroke Doctor, providing high-quality, patient-centered care under the supervision and mentorship of experienced doctors, consultants, and a multidisciplinary team. This role involves delivering direct clinical care, assisting in clinical decision-making, and sharing equally in the department's workload to ensure comprehensive senior clinical cover.

Key responsibilities include the assessment and management of patients, covering ward rounds, multi-disciplinary team meetings, and stroke and TIA clinics. The specialist doctor will aid consultants in reviewing potential admissions, developing rapid assessment triage strategies, and ensuring timely investigations and patient disposition. This will serve as part of training and development towards providing thrombolysis.

This position requires a strong general internal medicine knowledge and the role will provide the opportunity to spend one day a week on the general internal medicine rota in A&E, the clinical assessment unit or the short stay unit.

Main duties of the job

• Provide direct clinical care and share in the department’s workload, including taking the lead on Stroke Calls.
• Assist in patient assessments, ward rounds, multi-disciplinary meetings, and radiology meetings.
• Support consultants in reviewing admissions and developing triage strategies, including the use of thrombolysis and CT Perfusion assessment pathways.
• Participate in clinical audits, governance activities, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Engage in professional development, research, and continuing medical education.

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond. Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts including an excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement, on-site nurseries, staff cafes, parking, and salary sacrifice schemes.

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A keen interest in stroke, stroke mimics, and TIA is essential. The role offers opportunities for professional development, including dedicated time for developing special interests and undertaking research within clinical and laboratory service limits. Continuing medical education is supported with appropriate study leave funding.

Responsibilities extend to administrative duties associated with patient care, collaborating with A&E consultants to enhance stroke patient management, and achieving clinical quality targets such as the 4-hour waiting time target. A clear understanding of stroke service commissioning, contracting, and regional strategy is required.

The specialist doctor will also cover colleagues during leave periods, participate in clinical audit activities, and ensure proper patient handover. Active engagement in clinical leadership, improving patient experience, and delivering high-quality care alongside medical, nursing, and management teams is expected.

Additionally, the role involves contributing to the education and professional development of the department's staff, including supervision of junior medical staff and involvement in recruitment, appraisal, and mentoring activities. Teaching certification verification is required for training responsibilities.

Person specification

Qualifications

• MRCP, FRCP or equivalent medical qualification
• Higher degree (PhD; MD) or Mphil
• Desire to work and/or working towards CESR/CCT

Experience

• Completion of at least four years full time postgraduate training
• Eligible for full GMC registration at time of appointment
• Experience in UK General Medicine including Stroke
• Evidence of achievement of Foundation competencies in line with GMC standards in Good Medical Practice

Skills

• Relevant speciality knowledge and demonstrable experience in Stroke Medicine including Hyper Acute patient management, acute patient management, stroke call assessment and management, collaboration with MDT members, and general internal medicine application.
• Up to date provider in ALS or equivalent courses.

Clinical Governance

• Demonstrable experience of clinical governance management including mortality and morbidity, rapid reviews, auditing.

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.