# Clinical Fellowship in Stroke (StR Higher) > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-fellowship-in-stroke-str-higher/a65a91b5-2a4e-4728-86b0-729742e42d02 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-fellowship-in-stroke-str-higher/a65a91b5-2a4e-4728-86b0-729742e42d02.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust - **Location:** Derriford Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Medical doctor - **Speciality:** Stroke Medicine - **Grade:** Senior - **Salary:** £67,325 - £76,582 per annum - **Contract type:** Fixed term: 12 months (With possibility for extension) - **Employment type:** Full time - 40 hours per week (Out of hours required) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-22T22:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-08T10:44:56.923Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Devon/Plymouth/University_Hospitals_Plymouth_NHS_Trust/Neurology_Stroke/Neurology_Stroke-v8352413 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8352413?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.plymouthhospitals.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview At University Hospitals Plymouth we have a Comprehensive Stroke Centre and provide the Mechanical Thrombectomy Service for the Southwest Peninsula. This currently runs 7 days a week but not overnight. We are expanding the service to 24/7 service to the South West Peninsula over the coming months and seeking to expand our workforce to be part of this development. The Senior Clinical Fellow post in Stroke is based in Derriford Hospital in Plymouth. This is a new post which, whilst not a training post, will work with the SpRs in the Peninsula Training Programme and your duties will be similar. Whatever your career aims, this job will enable you to gain specialist experience in Hyper Acute, Acute and Rehab services for stroke. ### Main duties of the job Assessing and initiating treatment, including IV thrombolysis for patients presenting with suspected acute stroke (under consultant supervision) - Providing medical input for patients requiring treatment with mechanical thrombectomy (including receiving referrals from other hospitals) - Involvement on HASU and ASU, directly working with the stroke consultant in the running of the ward - There will also be non-stroke clinical work, comprising approximately 20% of clinical work. This will vary based on the applicant’s medical background and the needs of the hospital. This will involve a proportion of the clinical work being within other departments, including Geriatrics, Neurology, Acute Medicine and Rehabilitation medicine. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities On call : At present the registrars work a 1 in 7 partial shift. There is a requirement to work a 24/7 resident rota to carry the stroke bleep and make thrombolysis and thrombectomy decisions (supported by an on-call Consultant) on a 1:13 basis. When you work weekends and nights you will be rostered with appropriate compensatory rest. In addition to 9-5 ‘day shifts’, there are long day shifts (9am-9pm, which include weekends) and night shifts 9pm-9am. ### Applicant requirements 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. ## Person Specification ### APTITUDE & ABILITIES **Essential** - Demonstrates clarity in written / spoken communication & capacity to adapt language as appropriate to the situation - Able to build rapport, listen, persuade & negotiate - Capacity to use logical / lateral thinking to solve problems / make decisions, indicating an analytical / scientific approach - Capacity to take in others’ perspectives and treat others with understanding; sees patients as people - Demonstrates respect for all **Desirable** - Demonstrates information technology skills - Evidence of achievement outside medicine - Evidence of altruistic behaviour eg voluntary work ### KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE **Essential** - At least 5 years of experience working as a doctor after graduation: this is a post for doctors of ST4 level and above - Evidence of experience in a range of medical specialties, with at least 3 years spent working in medical specialties - Previous experience delivering intravenous thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke **Desirable** - Ability to interpret neuroimaging in the context of acute stroke, including CT angiography, CT perfusion and MRI ### Managing Others & Team Involvement **Essential** - Able to work in multi-professional teams & supervise junior medical staff - Ability to show leadership, make decisions, organise and motivate other team members for the benefit of patients through, for example, audit and quality improvement projects - Capacity to work effectively with others **Desirable** - Evidence of effective leadership in and outside medicine - Evidence of effective multidisciplinary team working and leadership supported by multi-source feedback or other workplace-based assessments - Demonstrates an understanding of NHS management and resources. - Evidence of involvement in management commensurate with experience ### DISPOSITION / ATTITUDE / MOTIVATION **Essential** - Evidence that career progression is consistent with personal circumstances - Evidence that present achievement and performance is commensurate with totality of period of training - At least 24 months experience in medicine or an ACCS program or equivalent (not including Foundation modules) by the time of commencement. ### Education, qualifications & special training **Essential** - MBBS or equivalent medical qualification Eligible for full registration with the GMC at time of appointment and hold a current licence to practic - Evidence of achievement of Foundation competences from a UKFPO affiliated Foundation Programme or equivalent by time of appointment in line with GMC standards/ Good Medical Practice - Evidence of achievement of IMT3 level competencies CT/ST1 competences by the commencement date supported by evidence from work-based assessments of clinical performance (DOPS, Mini-CEX, CBD, ACAT) and Multi-Source Feedback or equivalent, ARCP or Equivalent - Eligibility to work in the UK **Desirable** - MRCP full diploma OR Certification of Completion of training (CCT) in Neurology/ Stroke equivalent from non-UK country ## Documents - [clinical fellowship in stroke (pdf, 504.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10677900) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.