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Job overview

This job is for a Consultant (with interest in Stroke Rehabilitation. The job is a full time post comprising of 10 Programmed Activities (PAs).

We are seeking enthusiastic and innovative colleagues to join the current team of five Stroke physicians and a Stroke nurse consultant to help us continue to deliver a high performing stroke service.

Frimley Park Hospital has a well-deserved reputation for good quality stroke care and we have consistently achieved excellent outcomes for our patients.

We have been recognised as providing one of the best stroke services in Surrey and South East Coast. Stroke is a strategic priority for the Trust as we believe our patients deserve the very best.

Main duties of the job

Candidates are expected to have received specialty training in either Geriatrics, GIM, Neurology or Acute Medicine. Stroke subspecialty training is desirable but not essential.

We will consider applicants on the Specialist Register or be within six months of being so at the time of interview as well as those currently in an Associate Specialist role with the appropriate experience.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.