Wirral University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to appoint an ambitious, highly motivated, and dynamic substantive Consultant Stroke Physician to join our Stroke Department.
Responsibilities
* Provide a comprehensive Stroke Service in collaboration with other Stroke Physicians.
* Perform daily acute stroke ward rounds during the acute stroke physician of the week (1 week in 7).
* Deliver the senior medical component of the hyperacute stroke thrombolysis service and triage for the TIA Rapid Assessment service during the stroke week.
* Cover out‑of‑hours hyperacute stroke rota, assessing stroke thrombolysis and providing remote hyperacute assessment/advice on a 1 in 7 basis; compensatory rest taken the following day.
* Oversee ongoing care of inpatients: undertake Arrowe Park Hospital Step Down Stroke ward rounds twice weekly (average 8 patients, advice for 18 beds), and Clatterbridge Hospital Stroke Rehabilitation Unit (average 5 beds).
* Run 1–2 rapid access TIA / Stroke review clinics per week with same‑day Doppler, CT and MRI imaging; usual clinic template is 3 new / 6 follow‑ups.
* Support the delivery of an inpatient (1 in 6) consultant of the week model on HASU, shared responsibility for stroke rehabilitation patients and outpatient rapid access clinics.
Opportunities for progression and development in research, education, or leadership and management are available.
This is a full‑time position (10 programmed activities) with potential job plans outlined and negotiable with the successful candidate.
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