Consultant Stroke

The stroke unit is currently a combined stroke unit and we will be an Acute Stroke Centre (ASC) from July 2024. The current unit is located on Ebony ward. There are 2 Consultant Stroke physician posts advertised.
There is a team of Junior Doctors and two SpR/ Registrars who form part of the medical workforce.
The post holders will join a team of 6 WTE stroke consultants one of whom is a long term locum., a) Ward rounds: HASU and ASU. They will work alongside 2 other consultants in reviewing new patients, HASU patients for first 72 hours and the ASU patients. They will be involved in daily board rounds and support the Multidisciplinary team with discharge planning
b) Clinics: They will do one stroke clinic every other week. They will do one TIA clinic per week and supervise CNS in TIA clinic. The Clinics usually have the following format- 2 new patients and 4 follow-ups. Daily TIA clinic slots averages 3 new patients. Dedicated CT and MRI slots, and Carotid imaging are available on the same day.
c) MDT: Weekly stroke ward MDT that they will chair in turn.
d) On Calls: They will take part in Regional out of hours on call which is shared with consultants at Maidstone Hospital. This on call is done using Telemedicine. This will be a 1:12 rota and include weekdays and weekends. They will do weekend ward rounds in the stroke unit on a 1:6 rota between 0900-1600 on Saturday and Sunday. The weekend ward rounds are combined with the regional out of hours weekend rota to make it less onerous. There is agreement post week-end combined on-call, that the post holder will have the Monday afternoon free of clinical commitments.
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The Trust provides services at Darent Valley Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital, for a local population of over 500,000 people.
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The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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