Stroke Consultant Welcome Bonus £20K

Job overview

Stroke Consultant -Welcome Bonus £20K

We would invite applicants who are looking to join an innovative and dynamic small team of stroke physicians to look after the second busiest stroke service in the Anglian region.

For further information on the post please see the below link -

https://view.pagetiger.com/cdivekj/1

Main duties of the job

The postholder will participate in:

• This is a full time substantive post and will complete the team at the Ipswich Hospital site as part of the ESNEFT strategy for Stroke. It is specific to the Ipswich site.
• 7 day inpatient stroke rota ( hyperacute and acute care) – 28 inpatient beds
• Daily TIA clinics and weekly outpatient clinics reviewing new referrals and stroke follow ups
• Leading and developing the educational requirement of the stroke service
• There is the option to participate in additional activity including participating in the acute medicine on call rota, or as an alternative the regional telemedicine rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

There will be a rolling weekly one in four rota with four components:

• Care of HASU patients and acute stroke calls
• Care of ASU patients
• TIA clinics Monday to Friday
• Outpatients clinics
• Weekend work will including HASU ward round, TIA clinic and ward reviews

Days off in lieu will follow a weekends or bank holidays on duty

The successful applicant will be expected to join a rota (one in six with prospective cover) to provide weekend and bank holiday Stroke Unit ward rounds and assessment of high risk TIA referrals. There is participation from an acute medicine and elderly care colleague in this rota.

Programmed activities This is a 10 PA contract based on the recommendations from the BMA . This is split into 8.5 PA’s direct clinical care and 1.5 supporting PA’s.

Direct clinical care 8.5PAs on average per week (includes clinical activity, clinically related activity and predictable emergency work). Supporting professional activities 1.5 PAs on average per week (includes CPD, audit, teaching, appraisal)