Stroke Specialist Nurse - ESSD Service

Job overview

Join a New Early Supported Stroke Discharge (ESSD) Team

High Peak & North Dales

Do you have the clinical skills, passion and experience to make a real difference in stroke rehabilitation? Are you excited by the opportunity to help shape a brand-new, community-based service from the very beginning?

About the role

We are looking for an enthusiastic, skilled and motivated Stroke Specialist Nurse to join our newly established Early Supported Stroke Discharge (ESSD) team, delivering care across High Peak and North Dales.

This is a rare opportunity to be part of the development of a new service, working in line with the established and highly regarded ESSD model used across Derbyshire. You will play a key role in enabling people to leave hospital earlier and recover safely and effectively in their own homes, delivering high‑quality, evidence‑based stroke rehabilitation.

What you’ll be part of

• A supportive, friendly and progressive ESSD service

• The wider Stroke and Neurology Service within DCHS

• A multidisciplinary team with a strong commitment to patient‑centred, evidence‑based care

• A service that places training, development and staff wellbeing at its heart

Why join us?

This post is part of exciting county-wide work to improve the stroke pathway across Derbyshire. You will be joining something truly meaningful at a pivotal moment, helping to shape how stroke rehabilitation is delivered to our communities.

Main duties of the job

To provide nursing expertise within the multi-disciplinary ESSD team. This includes acting as an expert practitioner, liaising, guiding and advising the multidisciplinary team and external agencies in the provision of optimum nursing care for stroke patients on the ESSD pathway

To facilitate person centred care, enabling people with stroke to manage their condition effectively and independently, preventing complications and improving quality of life.

To participate in the development of effective, responsive, evidence based and patient centred services.

To assist and or lead on specific projects in agreement with the Team Leader and Operational Lead for the Service.

To work in close collaboration with other teams providing stroke care, and with partners across health and social care in locality, to support the delivery of effective ESSD services.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visa’s and Immigration. After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)”​

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