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We are recruiting a Consultant Stroke Physician and will also consider experienced Stroke Specialists to join a progressive and expanding Stroke Service in South West England.

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of a well-established multidisciplinary stroke team delivering high-quality hyperacute, acute, rehabilitation and community stroke services. The service is undergoing a major transformation, including the launch of a new 12-bed Hyperacute Stroke Unit (HASU) and continued investment in the stroke workforce, research, diagnostics, and service development.

You will work alongside an experienced team of Stroke Consultants and Specialist Doctors, contributing to innovative patient-centred stroke care while helping shape the future of stroke services across the region.

Flexible and part-time working applications are welcomed.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver consultant-led hyperacute, acute and rehabilitation stroke care.
• Lead daily Hyperacute Stroke Unit (HASU) ward rounds.
• Participate in 24/7 thrombolysis services supported by regional telemedicine networks.
• Assess and manage patients presenting with acute stroke, TIA and cerebrovascular disease.
• Run rapid-access TIA clinics in accordance with national stroke standards.
• Support inpatient stroke rehabilitation services and Early Supported Discharge pathways.
• Provide outpatient stroke follow-up and specialist stroke clinics.
• Work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality stroke care.
• Participate in the weekend HASU on-call rota.
• Supervise and support junior doctors, specialist trainees and medical students.
• Participate in clinical governance, audit, quality improvement and service development.
• Contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching programmes.
• Support and participate in stroke research and clinical trials.
• Develop and implement evidence-based improvements across stroke services.
• Work across hospital sites where required.

Person Specification

Essential

Qualifications

• MRCP or equivalent.
• Full GMC Registration with a licence to practise.
• Entry onto the GMC Specialist Register via CCT, CESR or equivalent (or within six months of CCT).

Experience

• Broad clinical experience in General Medicine.
• Extensive experience in acute stroke management.
• Experience in thrombolysis services.
• Experience managing Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) patients.
• Experience in stroke rehabilitation and stroke follow-up services.
• Ability to independently manage complex stroke patients.
• Strong understanding of clinical governance and patient safety.
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary team-working skills.
• Ability to lead service development and quality improvement initiatives.
• Experience teaching junior doctors, medical students and multidisciplinary teams.
• Participation in clinical audit.
• Ability to work effectively within a busy acute hospital environment.
• Ability to travel between hospital sites where required.

Desirable

• Higher research degree (MD, PhD or equivalent).
• Experience working as a Locum Consultant.
• Involvement in stroke research or multicentre clinical trials.
• Evidence of leadership and management training.
• Experience in service redesign or stroke pathway development.
• Quality improvement project involvement.
• Evidence of published research.
• Teaching qualifications or educational supervision experience.
• Evidence of management, appraisal or service leadership.