Consultant Stroke Physician

West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust wishes to appoint a Consultant Stroke Physician. This post will be primarily based at Watford General Hospital where all the clinical sessions will occur. The successful candidate will join a dynamic, friendly stroke team of three Substantive Stroke Consultants and be part of the larger medicine for the Elderly department.

The appointee will provide 8 PA of inpatient and outpatient services, including support of the thrombolysis service (9:00-17:00), provision of ward rounds on the hyper-acute and acute Stroke Unit and participation in Stroke outpatient and TIA clinics.

This post attracts 1.5SPA 1 of which can be taken flexibly from home, additional SPA is provided if you educationally supervise trainees.

Main duties of the job

• Providing a service at Watford General Hospital, with responsibility for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness, and the proper functioning of the department.
• Liaising with Consultants in the departments of Emergency Medicine, Medicine, Care of the Elderly, and with Integrated care boards to ensure that patients receive optimal management consistently across the Trust.
• Covering for colleagues' annual leave and other authorised absences
• Working in clinical and other domains within Care of the Elderly/Medicine if required including attendance at departmental educational and management meetings
• Supervising and managing junior medical staff.
• Carrying out teaching, examination and accreditation of junior staff and contributing to undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education locally and nationally.
• Participating in medical audit, the Trust's Clinical Governance processes and in CPD.
• Managerial, including budgetary, responsibilities where appropriate.
• Undertaking additional professional responsibilities at local, regional or national levels

About us With a new hospital planned for Watford and work underway to update theatres at St Albans City Hospital, this is an exciting time to join us. We are building on the success of our award-winning virtual hospital and re-imagining models of care, working ever more closely with partners and making the most of advances in digital healthcare.

Staff wellbeing and development are a priority at our Trust, as is the role of innovation in improving clinical care, outcomes and patient experience. Our vision is Excellent patient care, together and our values are to be empowered, compassionate, professional and inclusive. They capture an important balance across what we must all do as individuals and to support others.

We offer a variety of flexible working options as we recognise the importance of a good work life balance.

Benefits

• Flexible working options
• Staff wellbeing and development priority
• Opportunities for innovation in clinical care

Person Specification Essential

• Entry on GMC Specialist Register; eligible for entry on Register or within 6 months of receipt of Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General Internal Medicine (GIM) and Geriatric Medicine
• MRCP or equivalent
• Success in Intercollegiate Specialty

Desirable

• Stroke CCT Subspeciality entry