Job requirements
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Essential
6 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Broad experience in Stroke, Acute and General Medicine
- Experience
Experienced and competent in Stroke thrombolysis
- Experience
Experience of audit
- Education and Qualifications
CCT/equivalent in Geriatric medicine/Neurology/ Acute medicine (or within six months of CCT) or on the Specialist Register
- Education and Qualifications
The candidate should have full GMC Registration with a licence to practice
- Education and Qualifications
MRCP or equivalent
Desirable
7 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Experience
Undertaken a management course
- Experience
Understanding of the NHS and its organisation
- Experience
Completed publications in appropriate journal(s)
- Experience
Previous experience in HASU/ASU
- Education and Qualifications
Higher degree e.g. PhD or MD
- Education and Qualifications
Research experience
- Education and Qualifications
Formal Stroke Fellowship Experience
Job overview
The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Foundation Trust wishes to appoint a Consultant Stroke Physician and Geriatrician. The trust has worked with the Imperial College Hospital NHS trust to create a joint post between the Acute Stroke Unit (ASU) at West Middlesex Hospital and the Hyper-Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) at Charing Cross Hospital. The appointment will be of 10PAs and will include 2 PAs at Charing Cross Hospital HASU with participation in the HASU on call rota. This post will be based at the West Middlesex University Hospital site in Redlees ward and will be responsible consultant for Acute Stroke Unit patients and non- stroke patients on the ward.
The appointee will provide inpatient stroke advice and outpatient services in 5 days a week TIA clinics and stroke follow up clinic, which are well supported by radiology and cardiac investigation departments in the hospital. The appointee will participate in the Regional HASU stroke rota that is 1:16 being resident on call 0900-2000 (Monday – Sunday) with on call from home for nights on call with the expectation to come in for thrombectomy patients.
Main duties of the job
This is a joint Consultant Stroke and Care of the Elderly Medicine post between the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trusts Acute Stroke Unit (ASU) at West Middlesex University Hospital and the Hyper-Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust. The appointment will be 10PAs and includes 2 PAs at HASU with participation in the 1:16 HASU on call rota. Along with 2 other consultants, the applicant will over the 5 day TIA service at West Middlesex, which is well supported by administration team and the radiology department. The ward base would be on the Redlees ward, which has 22 ASU beds and 2 non stroke beds and the consultants have responsibility to cover all the patients on the ward.
The Applicants are invited to join a dynamic and forward-looking department of the Stroke and Care of the Elderly medicine. The successful candidate will join a team of eight existing consultants in the Care of the Elderly department at West Middlesex site, and will provide inpatient and outpatient services in Stroke, Care of the Elderly and General Internal Medicine in a busy, but well supported general hospital. The new consultant will work closely with Dr Ravneeta Singh and Dr Crina Diaconu, to ensure that there is a Stroke Physician presence on the West Middlesex site at all times.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
General Responsibilities as Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine
Please refer to our detailed job description for more information.
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.
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This advert is for Locum Consultant in Stroke Medicine with Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Isleworth, England. It is listed as a Consultant Medical doctor Stroke Medicine role. The advertised salary is Negotiable. The contract type is 12 months (12 months fixed term contract). The application deadline is 10 Sep 2026.
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