Job overview

We are delighted to be able to offer an opportunity for a highly motivated, ambitious individual to join our well integrated stroke team as a specialty doctor.  This is a great opportunity for someone who would like to work in a research-active comprehensive stroke service with advanced neuroimaging capabilities.

This is a new post to join a team of existing 6 substantive consultants with varying clinical input into stroke. We are one of the 11 prestigious hyperacute stroke research centres in the country and have been the lead recruiter in complex clinical trials for a number of years. 

Successful candidates should have significant prior experience in the management of hyperacute stroke presentations as well as in ongoing care / rehabilitation for this group of patients. Skills should include management of acutely unwell patients, independent decision –making on reperfusion treatments and clinical correlation with advanced brain / vascular imaging. The post holder would be expected to manage in and out of hours clinical work without direct supervision from consultant team. 

Please read attached Job Description and Person Specification

Main duties of the job

This job is being advertised to help development of sustainable cross-site working, between the stroke service at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead and the tertiary service at Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust. You will be supported by Trust Executives’ Board of both Trusts as well as the medical directorate to achieve service goals. 

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

For an informal discussion and further information regarding the opportunity and Directorate, please contact: Dr Sofia Dima on 01912139832 or via email at [email protected] 

Working for our organisation

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest, largest and most successful teaching NHS foundation trusts in the country, with around 16,000 staff and an annual income of £1 billion. We have a long history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, and innovation in medical research regionally, nationally and internationally.

We’re also proud to be the second largest provider of specialised services in the country. This means we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

Our staff oversee around 1.84 million patients ‘contacts’ each year, delivering high standards of healthcare.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.