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Job summary

Main area
Stroke Medicine
Grade
NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (or your visa end date if you require sponsorship, whichever comes sooner)
Hours
Full time - 10 sessions per week (0.60 WTE HUH AND 0.4 WTE Barts)
Job ref
293-Consultant-314-A
Employer
Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Homerton University Hospital
Town
Hackney
Salary
£105,504 - £139,882 0.60 WTE HUH AND 0.4 WTE Barts
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/09/2025 23:59

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Locum Stroke Consultant

NHS Medical & Dental: Locum Consultant

 

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Job overview

The appointee will join the Stroke team in order to ensure all stroke patients admitted to HUH receive the highest possible level of care. This will mean providing day to day care for stroke patients and outlying medical patients on the Graham stroke unit and also providing stroke-specific clinical input to general medical wards. 

The inpatient component of the service is based on the Graham Stroke Unit (Acute Stroke Unit). There are strong therapy links with the Regional Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (RNRU) and the HTNRU for patients with complex needs who require further inpatient rehabilitation. The Stroke Unit is conforming to national clinical Standards and participating in the SSNAP (national audit for stroke and TIA). In addition to meeting the acute stroke and rehabilitation needs of the City and Hackney population, Graham Stroke Unit is also commissioned to provide further stroke rehab (in up to 6 beds) for patients with a Haringey primary care provider. 

 

 

Main duties of the job

The post-holder will be required to:

ensure Stroke Unit and TIA Provider status is maintained

continue to develop the daily TIA service and maintain appropriate links and referral pathways with local GPs

work with nursing and therapy colleagues to ensure the stroke unit has sufficient capacity to accommodate all suitable stroke patients on admission to the hospital

work with the local Hyper Acute Stroke Centre to ensure robust protocols for the transfer of patients following hyperacute treatments and/or stabilisation

assist the management team with the development of future Consultant and junior doctor roles

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Working for our organisation

Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (HUH) is an acute hospital located in the East London Borough of Hackney. We are a merged hospital and community service Trust.  The current Chairman is Sir John Gieve, and the Chief Executive is Ms Louise Ashley.

The hospital building opened in 1986, with Homerton Hospital Trust established in 1994. The hospital received university status in 2001. We provide training for medical students from Barts and The Royal London, Queen Mary College, University of London and nursing and allied health professions training for students from City University and the University of East London. 

Homerton became one of the first ten NHS foundation trusts in the country in April 2004. This allows the Trust to secure certain freedoms to facilitate innovation in the way services are developed and provided. As well as our Trust Board, we also have a Council of Governors comprised of governors representing the local community.   

Employing over 4000 people, the hospital has approximately 500 beds and also manages a 50-bed nursing home, Mary Seacole Nursing Home, in Shoreditch, East London. In 2019/20, the Trust admitted nearly 80,000 people, saw over 380,000 people in outpatient clinics and over 128,650 people were treated in the accident and emergency department.

Please refer to the job description for more details.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

General Duties

·         To share responsibility for providing evidence-based standards of care for all inpatients and outpatients.

·         To have regard at all times to the clinical and quality standards set out in the Patients Charter and the local purchasers’ contracts.

·         To liaise effectively and on a timely basis with General Practitioners, community services and all healthcare agencies.

·         To encourage and foster the governance process at clinical, managerial and medical levels and to take part in regional audit in support of evidence-based medicine.

·         To participate fully in the management of the Stroke Departments and to liaise closely with the relevant General Manager and the Clinical Director.

·         Continuing responsibility for the care of patients in his/her charge, including all administrative duties associated with patient care.

·         Leadership and proper functioning of the services in his/her charge in line with agreed policies at the Trust.

·     Development of his/her own specialty interests, including active participation in research programmes.

Corporate and singular responsibility for the management of the junior medical staff including the approval and monitoring of junior staff rota's and locum appointments

Please refer to the job description for more details.

Person specification

Qualifications & Higher qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Fully registered with GMC
  • MRCP (or equivalent)
  • On specialist register or within 6 months in one of the stroke parent specialities.
  • Stroke experience (at equivalent level to Stroke CCST)
Desirable criteria
  • Higher Degree (MSc, MD or PhD)
  • CCST in Stroke Medicine

Relevant experience in speciality/sub speciality

Essential criteria
  • Ability to practice independently in Acute Medicine and Stroke and offer expert clinical opinion on a range of stroke and general medicine related problems
Desirable criteria
  • Expertise in the leadership of an acute care team or stroke care team
  • Experience in emergency or critical care medicine

Clinical skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent clinical skills

Leadership and professionalism

Essential criteria
  • Ability to take responsibility, lead, make decisions and respond appropriately to service need
Desirable criteria
  • Familiar with current structure of the health service and conversant with recent initiatives and changes

Management skills

Essential criteria
  • Awareness of the overall business environment in which the hospital operates
  • Understanding of the importance of good clinical coding
  • Knowledge of relevant regulatory frameworks eg EWTD
Desirable criteria
  • Management of team or programme or project

Teaching & training

Essential criteria
  • Experience of undergraduate and post-graduate teaching
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of educational supervision, teaching skills course/ qualification

Clinical Governance

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of contribution to effective audit and clinical risk management

Research

Essential criteria
  • Understanding of principles and application of clinical research
Desirable criteria
  • Relevant research experience
  • Publication of peer reviewed papers

Communication skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to communicate with clarity and intelligently in written and spoken English
  • IT skills and computer literacy
Desirable criteria
  • Computer skills course/certificate

Patient focused skills

Essential criteria
  • Empathy, understanding, listening skills, patience, social skills appropriate to different types of client

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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EMRS HR
Job title
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Email address
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