Overview
The post will be based at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, working across the Hospital but based on the Hyperacute Stroke Unit (HASU) on Ward 6.
Responsibilities
* Work as a Stroke Nurse Practitioner to triage, assess and organise the care of suspected Stroke and TIA patients.
* Collaborate with the Stroke Consultant, Resident Doctors, Physicians Associate and other Stroke Nurse Practitioners.
* Promote development of evidence based practice with stroke management.
* Work within multidisciplinary/interagency working.
* Assist with TIA clinics and nurse-led stroke review clinics for patients and their carers.
* Work within allocated resources.
* Participate in the delivery of multidisciplinary education and training programmes for stroke.
* Provide knowledge and expertise to support nursing staff, therapists, students and junior doctors.
* Participate in research and audit.
* Participate in ongoing development of services for people with stroke.
* Provide skilled and knowledgeable care to patients with stroke and their carers; provide assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of direct care to patients with stroke.
* Work in an interdisciplinary manner with all members of the interdisciplinary team, and external agencies to provide a high-quality service for patients from stroke disease, and their carers.
* Promote the development of high-quality stroke services within Stroke Northumbria.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape a collective leadership culture within the trust, engaging, enabling and empowering others, using coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and facilitating team working and collaboration.
About the Organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep.
Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
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