Consultant in Stroke Medicine

Overview

Consultant in Stroke Medicine

The closing date is 20 October 2025

Join Our Visionary Stroke Team - Consultant Opportunity

Location: Humber Health Partnership (HUTH site based) Specialty: Stroke Medicine Contract: Full-time 10 PAs (8 DCC + 2 SPA) On-call: Flexible, remote access-enabled, with compensatory time off

Main duties of the job

What You'll Do

• Lead the assessment and management of stroke patients across the care pathway
• Participate in hyperacute stroke treatments including: thrombolysis, mechanical thrombectomy, intracerebral haemorrhage management
• Contribute to clinical trials and research, including hyperacute stroke studies
• Provide on-call support with flexible, mostly remote coverage via telemedicine
• Supervise and mentor junior doctors and medical students

Academic & Leadership Opportunities

• Teach within the Hull York Medical School (HYMS) curriculum
• Supervise trainees from FY1 to specialty registrar level
• Take on a management or educational leadership role with full training and support
• Additional SPA time available for research, education, or service development

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For further details regarding this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification Professional Registration

• Full registration with the GMC
• On the GMC Specialist Register (or expected inclusion within 6 months) for Stroke
• GIM/AIM

Qualifications and training

• CCT/CESR in Acute Medicine or General Internal Medicine or Geriatric medicine or Neurology
• Dedicated stroke experience including thrombolysis at a registrar level
• Valid ALS certificate
• CCT in stroke Medicine subspecialty training

Teaching, audit and research

• Experience of supervising junior medical staff
• Committed to formal and informal teaching of medical staff, AHPs and medical students
• Evidence of participation in audit
• Ability to extrapolate clinical research evidence to care of individual patients
• Evidence of having conducted a practice-changing audit
• Experience of teaching/training in clinical courses: e.g. IMPACT Course Faculty, ALS Instructor, ALERT Instructor
• Original peer-reviewed research publications

Clinical Experience

• Demonstrable commitment to Acute Medicine and stroke medicine
• Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on range of acute medical conditions
• Ability to offer sound clinical opinion on stroke management including thrombolysis, thrombectomy and TIAs
• Ability to take full and independent responsibility for clinical care of patients
• Experience of delivering acute medical care in large, high throughput Assessment/ Admissions Units in the UK
• Experience in Ambulatory Care

Management and Administrative Experience

• Ability to manage and lead medical teams
• Ability to lead on smooth and efficient running of the unit
• Ability to organise, prioritise and manage high intensity workload
• Ability to develop, present and operationalise coherent ideas for service development/delivery

Personal Attributes

• Able to work flexibly in a changing health service
• Demonstrate a good manner with patients, being sensitive to their needs and fears
• Ability to work in a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, relatives, GPs, Nurses and other health professionals
• Willingness to undertake additional professional responsibilities at local, regional and national levels
• Ability to communicate effectively with external agencies and other disciplines

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust