Stroke Consultant Physician
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, The Park, City of Nottingham
Stroke Consultant Physician
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Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, The Park, City of Nottingham
- Full time
- Permanent
- Onsite working
Posted 1 day ago, 7 Nov | Get your application in today.
Closing date: Closing date not specified
Job ref: 0ab25729c2b5448abcdeb8a7a28eafe2
Location ref: The Park, City of Nottingham
Full Job Description
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.
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.