Job Description

Consultant Stroke Services

NNUHFT is a vibrant, aspirational organisation, working towards becoming a Neurosciences Centre of Excellence to respond to the National Stroke Plan. We are looking to add to our established Stroke Services team by appointing a seventh substantive, whole time (10PA) Consultant position, to support the expansion of the Stroke Directorate, including the development of mechanical Thrombectomy Services.

A candidate who is unable for personal reasons to undertake the duties of a whole-time post will receive equal consideration. If such a candidate is appointed the job content will be modified as appropriate in consultation with consultant colleagues and local management.

We welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion. Additionally, people with disabilities will be offered an interview providing they meet the minimum criteria for the post. The Trust operates job share and flexible working.

The comprehensive stroke service at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of services including hyper-acute, rehabilitation and TIA. The Hospital has 1,000 beds and includes more specialist services such as oncology and radiotherapy, neonatology, orthopaedics, plastic surgery, ophthalmology, rheumatology, paediatric medicine and surgery. This Trust is currently developing a mechanical thrombectomy service which should be operational in 2022.

Our hospital treats more than 700,000 people from Norfolk, neighbouring counties and further afield. Our patients are referred to us by local GP practices, other acute hospitals and primary care trusts across the country.

As a university teaching hospital, the Stroke team actively participates in local and national research projects and we have developed our research and development strategy in partnership with the University of East Anglia and other partners within the Norwich Research Park.

For informal enquiries please contact Dr Naval Shinh, Service Director 01603 289439. To learn more about the Trust, please visit our web site.

We welcome all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender, sexual orientation, race or religion.

The Advisory Appointment Committee will sit on 21st June 2023

NNUHFT provides a large, high volume, stroke service, with 1200 strokes admitted per year. The well-established Stroke Medicine Directorate team are working towards our goal of becoming a Neurosciences Centre of Excellence, with Neurosciences and stroke being one of the Trust’s key strategic priorities. As part of this, one of our key ambitions is to become a consistently SSNAP ‘A’ rated organisation. This work is supported by a dedicated MDT of Neurosciences Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Dieticians and Psychologists.

The NNUHFT manages the Stroke pathway from the emergency admission, through the Hyper Acute stroke Unit (HASU) and Acute Stroke Unit ASU. Our patients have access to both an Early Supportive Discharge (ESD) team and an offsite rehabilitation unit (Beech Ward) which are indirectly managed by the NNUHFT.

You will be based at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital (NNUH) with a rotation to our offsite Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Beech Ward, based at Norwich Community Hospital, part of Norfolk Community Health & Care NHS Trust.

The role is for the provision of consultant medical services to patients admitted onto the Stroke pathway. This includes thrombolysis, HASU ward rounds, ASU ward rounds and rehabilitation ward rounds. Upon commencement, you will agree a personalised job plan, including clinical commitments, as well as the supervision and teaching of junior doctors involved in the care of our patients.

Contributing towards the 7 days a week stroke consultant ward rounds to all of our hyper acute stroke patients. There is an on-call rota specifically for Stroke only, with a frequency of approximately 1 in 7 with prospective cover including thrombolysis. Compensatory time off during the week is factored into this rota.

Teaching responsibilities are shared with the stroke consultant colleagues and specialty trainees and consists of a repeating programme of lectures, seminars and tutorials. You may also participate in the teaching programme for the University of East Anglia (UEA) medical students and other clinical professionals involved with the Stroke pathway. You will be encouraged to participate in ongoing research studies.

All consultants, including the appointee, are involved in implementing the Trust’s Clinical Governance programme. This includes active participation in clinical audit, quality, clinical guidelines/pathways, professional development, appraisal and risk management.

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