Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine - Chelmsford, United Kingdom - Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

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Chelmsford, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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This Consultant Physician in Stroke Medicine substantive post is designed to complete our cohesive Consultant team of four, in delivering comprehensive Acute and Rehabilitation Stroke and TIA Services.

You will provide individualised care based on multi-disciplinary holistic assessment of the individual care needs of people who present with stroke., training in Neurology and or Geriatrics would be as welcome and there is scope to adjust job plans to match your interests to the needs of the service and you will become a part of very active Stroke Research Unit with a reputation as the top recruiter in many trials.

We currently have a 24/7 Consultant rota, but are looking to share a Stroke rota amongst the Essex Success Regime Hospitals as the Trust has a single independent Specialist Hyper Acute Stroke Unit in one geographical location and a Specialist Stroke team which has led to a 50% reduction in mortality and dependency and almost all stroke inpatients spending all their hospital stay on the Stroke Unit, we offer a 7 days/week 9.00am consultant - led multidisciplinary ward round for all new suspected Stroke/TIA admissions and a daily review of all other patients on Stroke Unit.

The JD is currently with the Royal College for approval.

Your role will involve multidisciplinary Rehabilitation of Stroke patients on the Stroke ward including meetings with relatives, weekly Outpatient clinics providing for new referrals and medical follow up for recently discharged stroke patients and other patients, strong links with diagnostic imaging, Vascular Surgery, Cardiology and Neurology and on-going educational programme for all disciplines within the department and lectures to GPs and other interested groups.

You will provide comprehensive Stroke Thrombolysis service, a best-endeavour Stroke Thrombectomy service and a Rapid Assessment Clinic for TIA/Minor Stroke patients held five days a week where suspected new stroke/TIA patients are seen per week.

You will also be involved in our service for high risk TIA patients at weekends and bank holidays, the seven day a week service includes same day CT or MRI scan and Carotid Doppler and we are currently achieving our performance targets for high risk and low risk patients whilst looking to adapt this service in view of the latest RCP guidelines.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be.

Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for you job and the support to succeed and progress.

Are you looking for a new challenge with opportunities to strengthen and improve our service, then we would like to hear from you?

Please see the attached Job Description for further details of this exciting role.