Consultant in Stroke Physician

Job overview

Consultant in Stroke Physician

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Stroke Service at The Royal London Hospital as a Consultant Stroke Physician. This substantive post offers the opportunity to work within one of the UK's leading Hyper Acute Stroke Units, delivering high quality care across the stroke pathway.

The successful candidate will provide consultant led hyper acute and acute stroke care, participate in the Trust's thrombolysis and thrombectomy on call rota, and contribute to TIA and outpatient stroke services. The role includes multidisciplinary team working, teaching, audit, research and service development.

Working closely with the Clinical Lead, Clinical Director and wider multidisciplinary team, the post holder will play a key role in supporting innovation and the continued development of stroke services across Barts Health.

We are seeking an enthusiastic and motivated clinician with expertise in stroke medicine who is committed to delivering outstanding patient care and helping shape the future of stroke services within one of the UK's largest and most innovative NHS Trusts.

Potential applicants are encouraged to consider whether they have the skills, experience and enthusiasm to undertake this exciting role within one of the UK's largest and most innovative NHS Trusts.

Main duties of the job

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To provide a Consultant-led comprehensive hyper acute and acute stroke service in partnership with the rest of the Consultant team.

To participate in the Stroke & Thrombolysis and Thrombectomy Consultant on call rota at The Royal London.

To share in the provision of outpatient TIA services together with other members of the consultant team.

To support the Stroke Clinical Lead and Clinical Director in advancing service developments and improvements.

To aid and facilitate the rapid transfer of stroke patients from Barts Health to other Acute Stroke Units along the relevant pathway.

To be actively involved in stroke research by enrolling patients in currently opened trials (national and international research studies as part of the National Stroke Research Network and the NIHR portfolio) as well as promoting new studies on site

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To share responsibility for providing evidence-based standards of care for all inpatients and outpatients.

To have regard at all times to the clinical and quality standards set out in the Patients Charter and the local purchasers’ contracts.

To liaise effectively and on a timely basis with General Practitioners, community services and all healthcare agencies.

To encourage and foster the governance process at clinical, managerial and medical levels and to take part in regional audit in support of evidence-based medicine.

The trust supports the requirements for continuing professional development (CPD) as laid down by the GMC and is committed to providing time and financial support for these activities. The trust also has the required arrangements in place to ensure that all surgeons have an annual appraisal with a trained appraiser and supports doctors going through the revalidation process. The trust also offers a mentorship scheme to all new consultants to help them settle into work as easily as possible which will be available on appointment.

To participate fully in the management of the Department and to liaise closely with the General Managers, Clinical Leads and Clinical Directors.

To take part in continuing medical education activities; there will also be a commitment to undergraduate and post-graduate teaching in the departments, including development and delivery of a teaching programme.