Trust Grade Registrar Stroke Medicine

Job description

Job summary

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 EDThe 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.

About us

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country with a budget of over £1billion and over 19,000 staff. We provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottinghamshire.

NUH has a national and international reputation for the quality of our patient care and for research, education and innovation.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including:

• Access to the Staff Wellbeing programme including our free 24 hour staff advice and emotional support service, financial advice service, a staff physiotherapy service and staff support networks
• On site day nursery
• Amazon parcel collection points
• Secure cycle facilities
• Access to Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Cycle to work and travel passes
• NHS discounts

Job description

Job 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 description
Job 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

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

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

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

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

Person Specification
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

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

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. .
UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
Address

QMC and City

Nottingham

NG5 1PB

United Kingdom

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