Overview
We are excited to share an opportunity to join our elderly care and stroke medicine teams at CHFT. The elderly care team consists of 10 consultants and the stroke team consists of 5 including this post. Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care, which means that we look after ourselves and our colleagues in the same way that we care for our patients. If you are kind, compassionate, dynamic, enthusiastic and effective we want to support you through the next stage of your career at consultant level.
Responsibilities
* Provide effective and compassionate care for our Stroke patients across bed base of 48 beds
* Develop their own area of specialist interest and provide sub-specialty expertise.
* Develop and expand the current Stroke service locally and regionally.
* As a core member of the West Yorkshire Associate of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), collaborate closely with the Tertiary service team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.
* Get involved in clinical research, teaching and development.
* Provide expert advice and support regarding complex cases to clinical colleagues in primary and secondary care.
Post holder will be providing assessment of patients suspected to have acute stroke when holding the hot phone including suitability for thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy. Post holder will be doing a TIA clinic for stroke prevention. Postholder will be looking after patients on HASU and ASU, i.e., daily morning ward round during 1 week in 5 weeks by rotation with the other 4 Consultants. The post holder will also be responsible for ongoing rehabilitation of stroke patients in stroke rehab ward. The post holder will be following patients from TIA clinic and discharged patients from ASU and Stroke Rehab ward in a follow-up clinic once a week.
Elderly Care and Transformation
Our Elderly Care services have recently been developed to bring the teams together and improve the care of patients in our local community. Our services are currently evolving, and by joining us at this exciting time it will give you the unique opportunity to lead the development of new services across hospital and community settings. Our future plans and transformation projects include the further development of a Virtual Ward and Frailty SDEC, as well as the reconfiguration of our hospital sites.
The Elderly Care medical team manages a substantive bed base of 103 acute elderly care beds. Consultants currently work in a model consisting of 2 consultants per ward which provides a consistent approach to patient care, as well as the ability to cross-cover periods of leave. In addition, there are 16 separate frailty beds on the acute medical unit at HRI. The team also covers Virtual Ward and Frailty SDEC.
About CHFT
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is an exceptional place to work with many amazing teams of hard working and dedicated staff, delivering high standards of patient care. We were rated by the Care Quality Commission as “Good” in June 2018, with goals to attain an “Outstanding” rating and Teaching Hospital status. We are undergoing a significant reconfiguration of services across our sites following capital funding to invest in local health services at Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. For more information, visit Our Future Plans - CHFT (cht.nhs.uk) or https://future.cht.nhs.uk/.
Contact details
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sumerra Afzal
Job title: HR Assistant
Email: Sumerra.afzal@cht.nhs.uk
Telephone: 01484 355029
Dominic Bryan, General Manager, Medical Specialties
Tel: 01422 222994
Dr Yaqoob Ghumro - Clinical Director - 07913540210
Dr Karthik Viswanathan, Clinical Director, Medical Specialties
Tel: 07747006856
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