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An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Locum Consultant in Stroke Medicine to join a growing, innovative stroke service delivering comprehensive hyper-acute, acute, and stroke rehabilitation care.

The service provides a full stroke pathway, including 24/7 thrombolysis, thrombectomy referral pathways through regional neuroscience centres, rapid-access TIA clinics, and multidisciplinary stroke rehabilitation services.

The stroke team works closely with Emergency Medicine, Radiology, Neurology, Geriatric Medicine, and Vascular Surgery to deliver coordinated, evidence-based stroke care across the patient pathway.

This role forms part of an expanding stroke service and offers opportunities to contribute to service development, teaching, research and stroke pathway innovation.

Main Duties of the Job

Clinical Responsibilities

• Deliver consultant-level care across hyper-acute stroke, acute stroke and rehabilitation pathways.
• Participate in daily multidisciplinary team ward rounds alongside stroke physicians, therapists, specialist nurses and advanced practitioners.
• Deliver rapid assessment and treatment of patients presenting with acute stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA)
• Provide decision-making for thrombolysis and stroke pathway management.
• Contribute to rapid-access TIA clinics that offer same-day or next-day assessments.
• Maintain clinical responsibility for patients under their care across inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Participate in the consultant on-call rota (1:6)
• Work collaboratively with regional centres to facilitate mechanical thrombectomy pathways.

Service Development

• Contribute to the development and delivery of high-quality specialist stroke services.
• Participate in national stroke audit programmes, including quality improvement initiatives.
• Support service redesign projects such as TIA service improvements, stroke rehabilitation pathways and digital stroke services

Teaching & Training

• Provide supervision and teaching to junior doctors and postgraduate trainees.
• Participate in medical student education.
• Contribute to departmental teaching programmes and clinical training activities.

Clinical Governance

• Participate in clinical governance, audit and quality improvement activities.
• Maintain ongoing professional development through CPD, appraisal and revalidation.
• Contribute to the implementation of best clinical practice and evidence-based care.

Job Plan

A 10 Programmed Activity (PA) job plan will be offered.

Direct Clinical Care

• Hyper-acute stroke sessions
• Acute stroke ward rounds
• Rapid-access TIA clinics
• Thrombolysis cover

Supporting Professional Activities

• 1.5 SPAs minimum for governance, education, research and service development
• Additional SPA sessions may be negotiated.

Flexible job plans may support clinical interests, including:

• Stroke research leadership
• Education and training roles
• Stroke rehabilitation pathway development
• Digital innovation in stroke services
• Imaging and thrombectomy pathway collaboration

Hybrid roles combining stroke medicine with Elderly Care, Acute Medicine or Neurology may also be considered.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MBBS or equivalent medical qualification
• Full GMC registration with a licence to practise
• MRCP (UK) or equivalent
• Entry on the GMC Specialist Register in one of the following (or within 6 months of CCT):
  • Stroke Medicine
  • Geriatric Medicine
  • Acute Medicine
  • General Medicine
  • Neurology
• BLS or ALS certification

Desirable

• MD or equivalent higher degree
• Evidence of research in the relevant speciality

Experience

Essential

• Minimum 1 year NHS experience
• Minimum 6 months of UK experience at Consultant level in Stroke Medicine
• Demonstrated ability to provide independent consultant-level clinical decision-making
• Experience managing acute stroke patients and stroke pathways
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary clinical team

Desirable

• Experience in developing stroke services or clinical pathways
• Experience supporting thrombectomy referral pathways

Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Strong clinical expertise in stroke medicine
• Ability to deliver high-quality patient-centred care
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary teamwork skills
• Knowledge of clinical governance and audit practices
• Ability to supervise and support junior medical staff

Additional Requirements

Essential

• Ability to work within a consultant on-call rota (1:6)
• Ability to work full-time or less than full-time
• CV must demonstrate the experience and competencies required for consultant-level stroke medicine practice