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Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Location:
United Kingdom, Hackney, London

Category:
Health and Beauty

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

105504.00 - 139882.00 GBP / Year

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Job Description:

The appointee will join the Stroke team in order to ensure all stroke patients admitted to HUH receive the highest possible level of care. This will mean providing day to day care for stroke patients and outlying medical patients on the Graham stroke unit and also providing stroke-specific clinical input to general medical wards.

Job Responsibility:

Ensure Stroke Unit and TIA Provider status is maintained
Continue to develop the daily TIA service and maintain appropriate links and referral pathways with local GPs
Work with nursing and therapy colleagues to ensure the stroke unit has sufficient capacity to accommodate all suitable stroke patients on admission to the hospital
Work with the local Hyper Acute Stroke Centre to ensure robust protocols for the transfer of patients following hyperacute treatments and/or stabilisation
Assist the management team with the development of future Consultant and junior doctor roles
Share responsibility for providing evidence-based standards of care for all inpatients and outpatients
Have regard at all times to the clinical and quality standards set out in the Patients Charter and the local purchasers contracts
Liaise effectively and on a timely basis with General Practitioners, community services and all healthcare agencies
Encourage and foster the governance process at clinical, managerial and medical levels and to take part in regional audit in support of evidence-based medicine
Participate fully in the management of the Stroke Departments and to liaise closely with the relevant General Manager and the Clinical Director
Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care
Leadership and proper functioning of the services in his/her charge in line with agreed policies at the Trust
Development of his/her own specialty interests, including active participation in research programmes
Corporate and singular responsibility for the management of the junior medical staff including the approval and monitoring of junior staff rota's and locum appointments

Requirements:

Fully registered with GMC
MRCP (or equivalent)
On specialist register or within 6 months in one of the stroke parent specialities
Stroke experience (at equivalent level to Stroke CCST)
Ability to practice independently in Acute Medicine and Stroke and offer expert clinical opinion on a range of stroke and general medicine related problems
Excellent clinical skills
Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and respond appropriately to service need
Awareness of the overall business environment in which the hospital operates
Understanding of the importance of good clinical coding
Knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks eg EWTD
Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching
Evidence of contribution to effective audit and clinical risk management
Understanding of principles and application of clinical research
Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English
Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience, social skills appropriate to different types of client

Nice to have:

Higher Degree (MSc, MD or PhD)
CCST in Stroke Medicine
Expertise in the leadership of an acute care team or stroke care team
Experience in emergency or critical care medicine
Familiar with current structure of the health service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes
Management of team or programme or project
Experience of educational supervision, teaching skills course/ qualification
Relevant research experience
Publication of peer reviewed papers
Computer skills course/certificate

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
December 12, 2025

Expiration:
February 26, 2026

Employment Type:

Fulltime

Work Type:

On-site work

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