Consultant in Stroke Medicine

Job summary

Join Our Visionary Stroke Team - Consultant Opportunity

Location: Humber Health Partnership (HUTH site based)Specialty: Stroke MedicineContract: Full-time | 10 PAs (8 DCC + 2 SPA)On-call: Flexible, remote access-enabled, with compensatory time off

Shape the Future of Stroke Care

Are you a dynamic and forward-thinking clinician ready to make a real impact? The Humber Health Partnership is seeking Consultant Stroke Physicians to join our expanding, innovative stroke service. This is your chance to be part of a high-performing team delivering cutting-edge hyperacute stroke care across one of the largest NHS partnerships in the country.

Main duties of the job

What You'll Do

• Lead the assessment and management of stroke patients across the care pathway
• Participate in hyperacute stroke treatments including:ThrombolysisMechanical thrombectomyIntracerebral haemorrhage management
• Contribute to clinical trials and research, including hyperacute stroke studies
• Provide on-call support with flexible, mostly remote coverage via telemedicine
• Supervise and mentor junior doctors and medical students

Academic & Leadership Opportunities

• Teach within the Hull York Medical School (HYMS) curriculum
• Supervise trainees from FY1 to specialty registrar level
• Take on a management or educational leadership role with full training and support
• Additional SPA time available for research, education, or service development

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For further details regarding this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person specification

Professional Registration

Essential

• oFull registration with the GMC
• oOn the GMC Specialist Register (or expected inclusion within 6-months) for Stroke

Desirable

• oGIM/AIM

Qualifications and training

Essential

• oCCT/CESR in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine or Geriatric medicine or Neurology
• oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
• oMRCP (UK) or equivalent qualification
• oValid ALS certificate

Desirable

• oCCT in stroke Medicine subspecialty training
• oPostgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD

Teaching, audit and research

Essential

• oExperience of supervising junior medical staff
• oCommitted to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
• oEvidence of participation in audit
• oAbility to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care of individual patients.

Desirable

• oEvidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
• oExperience of teaching/training in clinical courses: e.g. IMPACT Course Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
• oOriginal peer-reviewed research publications

Qualifications and training

Essential

• oCCT/CESR in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine or Geriatric medicine or Neurology
• oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
• oDedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
• oMRCP (UK) or equivalent qualification
• oValid ALS certificate

Desirable

• oCCT in stroke Medicine subspecialty training
• oPostgraduate degree: e.g. MD, PhD.

Clinical Experience

Essential

• oDemonstrable commitment to Acute Medicine and stroke medicine
• oAbility to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
• oAbility to offer sound clinical opinion on stroke management including thrombolysis, thrombectomy and TIAs
• oAbility to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients

Desirable

• oExperience of delivering acute medical care in large, high throughput Assessment/ Admissions Units in the UK
• oExperience in Ambulatory Care

Management and Administrative Experience

Essential

• oAbility to manage and lead medical teams
• oAbility to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
• oAbility to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload

Desirable

• oAbility to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery

Personal Attributes

Essential

• oAble to work flexibly in a changing health service.
• oDemonstrate a good manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears.
• oAbility to work in a multidisciplinary team.
• oAbility to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals
• oWillingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels

Desirable

• oAbility to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines.