Consultant Therapist - Leeds Stroke Pathway

This is an exciting new and high-profile opportunity to lead the development, implementation and ongoing oversight of the Leeds Integrated Stroke Pathway. The role has been designed to drive innovation and collaboration across organisational boundaries, ensuring patients receive high-quality, coordinated care throughout their stroke recovery journey.

The Consultant Therapist will work jointly across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH), providing strategic and clinical leadership to support integrated working. You will play a key role in shaping service delivery, influencing system-wide improvements, and ensuring best practice is embedded across acute and community settings.

A key focus of this new service will be to support the timely and effective discharge of patients from hospital into appropriate community-based care. This will involve working closely with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient flow, improve outcomes, and reduce delays in care transitions.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting opportunity within an integrated specialist stroke service delivering care across the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) and Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust (LCH) pathway. Hosted by LCH and closely aligned with LTHT, the service is designed to support the timely discharge of acute stroke patients into appropriate community-based care, ensuring continuity and quality of care across organisational boundaries.

The role will focus on driving seamless transitions from acute to community settings, improving clinical outcomes and patient experience by delivering specialist stroke care closer to home. It also contributes to wider system efficiency through reduced acute length of stay and more effective use of resources.

The Consultant Therapist will act as an expert, highly visible autonomous practitioner, providing advanced clinical leadership through hands-on practice, consultation, and oversight of complex stroke cases. You will take clinical responsibility for patients transitioning into community services, lead multidisciplinary team working, and ensure high standards of care delivery across the pathway.

In addition, the role will contribute to service development, education, research, and quality improvement, supporting innovation and shaping stroke services locally, regionally, and nationally.

Working for Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leeds Community Healthcare provides a range of community-based health services across the whole city. We treat people in their homes, local health centres and community hospitals, and work in partnership with other local Trusts, charities and Leeds City Council. We have a strong culture based on deeply-held values, and our focus at all times is on delivering high quality care to the people of Leeds. In our most recent CQC evaluation, we were rated "Good", with our Adult Services rated "Outstanding" for caring.