# Trust Grade Registrar Stroke Medicine

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- **Town:** Nottingham
- **Region:** Midlands
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Medical doctor
- **Speciality:** Stroke Medicine
- **Grade:** Senior
- **Salary:** £65,048 plus out of hours supplement
- **Contract type:** 12 months (12 months fixed term contract)
- **Employment type:** Full time, Part time, 40 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-06-11T08:00:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-05-28T08:31:22.118Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Nottinghamshire/Nottingham/Nottingham_University_Hospitals_NHS_Trust/Stroke/Stroke-v7964742
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7964742?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nuh.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are looking for a new Trust Grade doctor to join us at NUH within our Stroke team, at CT3+ level .  The post is available for 12 months initially with the possibility to extend if mutually agreed.

This role is for you if you have full MRCP plus experience in specialities including Geriatric Medicine, Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics or General (Internal) Medicine and to those who intend to make a career in Stroke Medicine.

There will be opportunities to undertake audits, to be involved in governance activities and to take part in service improvement projects to enhance your CV. There is also the opportunity to get involved in seeing patients in the TIA clinics and receiving potential Stroke patients in ED  The post will be working across all stroke areas particularly on the hyper-acute stroke admissions ward, providing support and advice to junior doctors, as well as the ED team.

NUH stroke services also provides 5 days a week 0800-1700 hrs Mechanical Thrombectomy service for the East Midlands .

### Main duties of the job

Please also familiarise yourself with the job description and person specification.

The Stroke service is across the two sites, both City hospital & QMC and consists of a hyper-acute ward,  and acute ward based at QMC and rehabilitation ward at City campus, as well as a daily Fast Track TIA clinic.  We had 1800 admissions to our stroke unit last year, with a further 600 patients reviewed at the TIA clinic.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note previous applicants need not apply

This is a service post so does not have educational approval, but successful applicants will be provided with training and educational opportunities, tailored to meet individual needs. Where service provision allows, successful applicants are encouraged to attend educational teaching sessions.

Post holders will be expected to keep themselves up to date with current knowledge and practice, to attend clinical meetings within departments and to participate in audit and in service training of other professionals. Mutually acceptable arrangements will be put into place to ensure that the individual is able to attend meetings and training as required / appropriate.  The successful candidates will be expected to maintain an educational portfolio and will have named Educational and Clinical Supervision.

Post holders can expect:

- To build upon postgraduate clinical experience (or equivalent)
- To develop further expertise in the identification and management of acute stroke (e.g. thrombolysis, mechanical thrombectomy, assessment for decompressive hemicraniectomy) and its complications
- To gain experience and familiarity in identifying and managing a wide variety of other medical conditions (e.g. stroke mimics), including making appropriate decisions regarding the need for admission, the development of strategies which might provide an alternative to admission and identifying where early discharge would be safe and appropriate
- To further develop skills of history taking, physical examination, appropriate investigation and rational prescribing
- To increasingly work towards independent practice at Registrar level, leading ward rounds, assessing patients, making decisions etc. with Consultant support and supervision available at all times

## Job Details

We are looking for a new Trust Grade doctor to join us at NUH within our Stroke team, at CT3+ level . The post is available for 12 months initially with the possibility to extend if mutually agreed.

This role is for you if you have full MRCP plus experience in specialities including Geriatric Medicine, Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics or General (Internal) Medicine and to those who intend to make a career in Stroke Medicine.

There will be opportunities to undertake audits, to be involved in governance activities and to take part in service improvement projects to enhance your CV. There is also the opportunity to get involved in seeing patients in the TIA clinics and receiving potential Stroke patients in ED The post will be working across all stroke areas particularly on the hyper-acute stroke admissions ward, providing support and advice to junior doctors, as well as the ED team.

NUH stroke services also provides 5 days a week 0800-1700 hrs Mechanical Thrombectomy service for the East Midlands .

## Job Description

Please also familiarise yourself with the job description and person specification.

The Stroke service is across the two sites, both City hospital & QMC and consists of a hyper-acute ward, and acute ward based at QMC and rehabilitation ward at City campus, as well as a daily Fast Track TIA clinic. We had 1800 admissions to our stroke unit last year, with a further 600 patients reviewed at the TIA clinic.

## Responsibilities

Please note previous applicants need not apply

This is a service post so does not have educational approval, but successful applicants will be provided with training and educational opportunities, tailored to meet individual needs. Where service provision allows, successful applicants are encouraged to attend educational teaching sessions.

Post holders will be expected to keep themselves up to date with current knowledge and practice, to attend clinical meetings within departments and to participate in audit and in service training of other professionals. Mutually acceptable arrangements will be put into place to ensure that the individual is able to attend meetings and training as required / appropriate. The successful candidates will be expected to maintain an educational portfolio and will have named Educational and Clinical Supervision.

Post holders can expect:

To build upon postgraduate clinical experience (or equivalent)

To develop further expertise in the identification and management of acute stroke (e.g. thrombolysis, mechanical thrombectomy, assessment for decompressive hemicraniectomy) and its complications

To gain experience and familiarity in identifying and managing a wide variety of other medical conditions (e.g. stroke mimics), including making appropriate decisions regarding the need for admission, the development of strategies which might provide an alternative to admission and identifying where early discharge would be safe and appropriate

To further develop skills of history taking, physical examination, appropriate investigation and rational prescribing

To increasingly work towards independent practice at Registrar level, leading ward rounds, assessing patients, making decisions etc. with Consultant support and supervision available at all times

## Person Specification

### Experience

**Essential**

- Good and wide ranging recent experience of clinical medicine in acute inpatient setting in a large acute hospital
- Evidence of completion of key competencies equivalent to at least ST3 level.
- Experience of working out of hours with limited support

**Desirable**

- NHS experience at ST3/CT3 level

### Training & Qualifications

**Essential**

- GMC Registration with licence to practice
- Full ALS Certification
- Full MRCP
- MBBS or equivalent
- IELTS core minimum 7.5 with no individual area going under 7.5 OR minimum grade B in all four sub tests of the OET

### Planning and organisational skills

**Essential**

- Evidence of active involvement in design and running of relevant clinical audit
- Experience of presenting case reports, audit or research results
- Experience of supervising junior colleagues

### Communication and Relationship Skills

**Essential**

- Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

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