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Consultant in Stroke Medicine -Golden Hello 

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking to appoint into a substantive post in the Department of Stroke Medicine at London North West based at Northwick Park Hospital.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the LNWH NHS trust for a new consultant to work in our expanding stroke service. We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic colleague to join our well-established stroke service for the continuing delivery of high-quality patient care and to work towards ongoing service improvement.

This post attracts a 'Golden Hello' payment applicable to new applicants only taking a substantive post.  Details are below:

• £7,000 golden hello payment for new recruits to be paid in 12 equal instalments
• £12k recruitment and retention fee year 1, 2 & 3 (paid in equal monthly instalments) (new recruits)
• Successful candidates will be also eligible for a relocation allowance of £12,000 (if required

JD Pending RCP Approval

Main duties of the job

• To provide in-patient and out-patient care for patients referred with suspected stroke or TIA
• To contribute to the provision of a 24 hour acute stroke specialist service delivering thrombolysis and other specialist treatments. Currently this involves being on call from home with CTs available by telemedicine and occasional out of hours visits to the hospital, including the thrombolysis rota.
• To contribute a full share to the consultant ward rounds every weekend day and public holiday. This currently works out as 1:7 weekends.
• To work with the rest of the clinical and managerial team to support and deliver quality improvements on the Stroke Unit and in the community.
• To provide clinical input into the early supported discharge service, specialist stroke community initiatives and stroke follow up.
• To take an active part in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and training
• To participate in clinical and other service activities such as medical and service audit with the object of ensuring a high standard of patient care
• To contribute to the management of the clinical service and service development
• To contribute to the development of clinical quality and effectiveness in other clinical areas where these overlap with developments in stroke
• To advance the Unit’s research programme

Working for our organisation

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including a highly rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK.
• St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre. 
• We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.