Consultant Stroke

Job overview

Consultant Physician in  Stroke Medicine

Permanent

Full time- 10PA's

Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust is delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious, dynamic individual to join our committed and well integrated multidisciplinary team, providing high standard care to the local community as a  Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine.

Main duties of the job

Dartford & Gravesham NHS Trust hosts one of the 2 acute stroke centres in West Kent.

Darent Valley hospital has a 40 bed combined stroke unit. The Hyper-acute stroke unit (HASU) is located on Spruce ward with 14 monitored beds. There 26 additional beds on both Spruce & Ebony ward which form the acute stroke unit (ASU). DVH opened its combined HASU & ASU on 27 September 2024.

We have introduced a new model of working for stroke consultants from January 2025. There is a dedicated stroke consultant to cover front door referrals along with another covering HASU.

• They will also be expected to do a ward round on the HASU on a 1:7 rotation between 0900-1600 on Saturday and Sunday. The weekend ward rounds are separate from the weekend regional OOH weekend rota to make it less onerous.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will join a team of 7 stroke consultants. They will take part in

• a)       Front door responsibility- they would be working for 4 days, with an off day in between, when they would be seeing stroke referrals from ED & AMU. They would be supported by 2 stroke CNS and an allocated stroke SHO. b)      HASU Ward rounds: we have a 14-bedded HASU with centralised physiological monitoring, experienced stroke nurses and 7 day access to physiotherapy and OT assessments.They will be working on the HASU for a week supported by a registrar grade doctor and several trainee grade & locally employed resident doctors. The HASU consultant would reviewing all new patients and acute stroke patients for first 72 hours. There is full team handover at the start of each day (Board Round) and dedicated consultant handover to the nurse in charge & therapists at the end of each HASU ward round. c)        ASU Ward rounds: ASU is co-located with the HASU on a ward with 26 beds. There is a daily ASU ward rounds (2 consultants) with a full team handover at the start of each day and dedicated consultant handover to the nurse in charge at the end of each ward round.