Stroke Consultant Physician

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is the biggest employer in Nottingham with over 19,000 staff

The post is a full time (10 Programmed Activities) Consultant Stroke Physician role, at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, working across all parts of the stroke service. The Stroke service provides 24/7 cover and currently has seven dedicated Stroke consultants , one clinical Academic, contribution from consultant Neurologists and an Acute Medicine consultant.

NUH is the fourth largest acute Trust within the UK, with a busy emergency department at Queens Medical Centre, which is a level 1 Trauma Centre. NUH provide s services to 2.5 million residents of Nottingham and surrounding communities, and specialist services to a further 3-4 million across the region and nationally.

The successful applicant will join an enthusiastic and committed team. The Trust is committed to further development of the Stroke service to maintain its long standing position in the forefront of stroke care provision nationally. The post holder will play a key part in developing the existing stroke pathway, providing consultant input to hyper acute stroke, acute stroke, intensive rehabilitation and continuing stroke rehabilitation.

Please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

You will be joining a dedicated, diverse and dynamic team of professionals providing outstanding stroke care and internationally recognised Stroke research within the NIHR Nottingham Biomedical Research Centre, a partnership between NUH and the University of Nottingham.

The Head of Service is Dr Kailash Krishnan and the specialty sits within the Care Group of Medicine.

- 16 bedded hyper acute stroke unit on the QMC campus
- 28 bedded acute rehabilitation stroke unit on the QMC campus
- 18 bedded long-term rehabilitation stroke unit on the City Campus (with 4 winter pressure beds) and 6 community beds
- A fast track TIA clinic (7 days per week)
- Stroke outpatient clinics
- 24/7 thrombolysis service
- A regional Mechanical Thrombectomy service

The stroke service is well supported by 10.5 WTE Stroke registrars who provide stroke cover in a dedicated 24/7 rota. The pool consists of an academic fellow, Stroke clinical fellow, Neurology registrar, Geriatric registrar and Trust Grade registrars.

SpR’s take part in the integrated GIM on call rota for when they are responsible to the duty general medical consultant.

Junior medical support is provided by 4 x F1, 2 x F2, 3 x Trust Grade F2, 9 x Trust Grade CT1, 1 x ST (1MT1), 4 x VTS-ST2. All junior staff spend four months attached to the stroke unit and rotate across the stroke wards to ensure they experience all elements of the service.

A full range of Stroke emergency and elective patients are admitted to Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust and the appointee will be responsible for the management of those patients admitted under their care.

The following draft Job Plan reflects our best assessment of what the final plan will be, based on 10 PAs. For all new consultants to NUH, we offer 8PA’s DCC and 2 SPA’s for the first year.

PROGRAMMED

ACTIVITIES:

Direct Clinical Care:

2

1

Operating session (including pre/post op)

Ward rounds

1

Out-patient or other clinics

1

Clinical Diagnostic Work

1

Other patient treatment / consultation

Multi-disciplinary meetings

1

1

Travelling time between sites

Other

8

Supporting Professional Activities

Medical Education (Undergraduate)

0.50

1.50

Audit

Research

Clinical Management

Other

2

TOTAL PAs

10

ON-CALL SUPPLEMENT:

Rota Frequency:

1:7.5

Category:

A

On-call Supplement:

3%

This service provided by the Stroke Specialty is provided across both campuses, but the primary base for this…