Locum Stroke Consultant | Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The appointee will join the Stroke team in order to ensure all stroke patients admitted to HUH receive the highest possible level of care. This will mean providing day to day care for stroke patients and outlying medical patients on the Graham stroke unit and also providing stroke-specific clinical input to general medical wards.

The inpatient component of the service is based on the Graham Stroke Unit (Acute Stroke Unit). There are strong therapy links with the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU) and the HTNRU for patients with complex needs who require further inpatient rehabilitation. The Stroke Unit is conforming to national clinical Standards and participating in the SSNAP (national audit for stroke and TIA). In addition to meeting the acute stroke and rehabilitation needs of the City and Hackney population, Graham Stroke Unit is also commissioned to provide further stroke rehab (in up to 6 beds) for patients with a Haringey primary care provider.

The post-holder will be required to:

ensure Stroke Unit and TIA Provider status is maintained

continue to develop the daily TIA service and maintain appropriate links and referral pathways with local GPs

work with nursing and therapy colleagues to ensure the stroke unit has sufficient capacity to accommodate all suitable stroke patients on admission to the hospital

work with the local Hyper Acute Stroke Centre to ensure robust protocols for the transfer of patients following hyperacute treatments and/or stabilisation

assist the management team with the development of future Consultant and junior doctor roles, · To share responsibility for providing evidence-based standards of care for all inpatients and outpatients.

· To have regard at all times to the clinical and quality standards set out in the Patients Charter and the local purchasers' contracts.

· To liaise effectively and on a timely basis with General Practitioners, community services and all healthcare agencies.

· To encourage and foster the governance process at clinical, managerial and medical levels and to take part in regional audit in support of evidence-based medicine.

· To participate fully in the management of the Stroke Departments and to liaise closely with the relevant General Manager and the Clinical Director.

· Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care.

· Leadership and proper functioning of the services in his/her charge in line with agreed policies at the Trust.

· Development of his/her own specialty interests, including active participation in research programmes.

Corporate and singular responsibility for the management of the junior medical staff including the approval and monitoring of junior staff rota's and locum appointments

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Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (HUH) is an acute hospital located in theEastLondon Borough of Hackney.We are a merged hospital and community service Trust. The current Chairman is Sir John Gieve,and the Chief Executive is Ms Louise Ashley.

The hospital building opened in 1986, with Homerton Hospital Trust established in 1994. The hospital received university status in 2001. We provide training for medical students from Barts and The Royal London, Queen Mary College, University of London and nursing and allied health professions training for students from City University and the University of East London.

Homerton became one of the first ten NHS foundation trusts in the country in April 2004. This allows the Trust to secure certain freedoms to facilitate innovation in the way services are developed and provided. As well as our Trust Board, we also have a Council of Governors comprised of governors representing the local community.

Employing over 4000 people, the hospital has approximately 500 beds and also manages a 50-bed nursing home, Mary Seacole Nursing Home, in Shoreditch, East London. In 2019/20, the Trust admitted nearly 80,000 people, saw over 380,000 people in outpatient clinics and over 128,650 people were treated in the accident and emergency department.