Stroke Specialist

The Stroke Service at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust has developed and continues to evolve to meet the needs of the patients who require specialist Stroke care. We are focused on ensuring a high quality seamless patient pathway and patient experience from admission to discharge delivered by a highly skilled, motivated and compassionate clinical team.

Our services include 24/7 Thrombolysis provision, access to Thrombectomy services, Hyper Acute Stroke unit (HASU), Acute Stroke unit (ASU), inpatient Neuro Rehabilitation, Stroke specific Rehabilitation and Community Stroke Rehabilitation (CSRT). All of these areas are led by committed specialist multidisciplinary stroke experts., As part of our commitment to review and improve our stroke services we are looking to expand our hyper-acute stroke team to provide a 24/7 service therefore an exciting position has arisen for band 6 Stroke Specialist to join Portsmouth Stroke Services. We are looking for highly motivated and dynamic individuals who can demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with ensuring that your practice follows the 6C's approach to care with an emphasis on compassionate care. This post is within our Hyper-Acute Stroke Team (HAST), supporting our emergency pathway. We are keen to recruit committed and reliable staff with established or emerging stroke skills, who would demonstrate a coaching approach to developing the staff across the stroke pathway. We would be keen to develop this post into a rotational role with the opportunity to work across HAST and HASU, in order to further develop skills, knowledge and experience. The successful candidate will be required to rotate
onto nights once the team is established to provide the 24/7 cover.

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.