Specialty Doctor Stroke

Job overview

Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust are looking to recruit  Specialty Doctors in Stroke Medicine to join our existing team. The advertised full time substantive posts attracts 11 programmed activities inclusive of  on-call duties

Our Stroke team is always looking for opportunities to develop and improve services and promote innovation. We are looking for individuals who are keen and interested in delivering care within the Stroke Service in the ever-changing and challenging environment of modern day healthcare. We can offer training and development opportunities and will support the Specialty Doctor to enable them to provide a first class service. If you are passionate about delivering high quality patient care and want to be involved shaping services for the future we would be keen to hear from you.

The Northern Lincolnshire area provides an enviable standard of living with good local schools and excellent transport links. The Trust can offer a relocation package, staff benefit scheme and support for continuing professional development.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is expected to contribute to a service which is both Consultant-led and delivered.

• Undertake a daily ward round of the allocated bed base
• Review all new medical admissions when rostered for on- call duty within the timeframe of the operational standard for the service and remain responsible for the care of these patients until they are either discharged from or transferred to another specialty ward if applicable.
• Assess all new admissions to HASU and Stroke ward
• Support the team to deliver effective, safe, and timely care in line with the operating standards of the Stroke wards
• Ensure appropriate handover of care at the end of a shift to the next responsible clinician.
• Liaise with specialty clinicians to facilitate their early involvement
• Further develop functional links with the community to facilitate seamless transfer of patients between the community and the hospital.
• Ensure timely completion of all documentation pertinent to an admission, transfer, discharge or death, in line with hospital standards.
• Supervise and ensure robust and effective hospital clinical handover at 09:00 am each morning Monday – Friday moving to 7 days when service extends
• To engage and work in line with the Criteria to reside principles as set out by the Trust
• Contribute to the Thrombolysis and Ward Cover on call rota

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post would suite an enthusiastic team player dedicated to high quality patient care. The opportunity exists to work in a non-hierarchical setting and offer a wide range of Acute Medicine procedures in this busy DGH

The post holder is expected to contribute to a service which is both Consultant-led and delivered.

• Undertake a daily ward round of the allocated bed base
• Review all new medical admissions when rostered for on- call duty within the timeframe of the operational standard for the service and remain responsible for the care of these patients until they are either discharged from or transferred to another specialty ward if applicable.
• Assess all new admissions to HASU and Stroke ward
• Support the team to deliver effective, safe, and timely care in line with the operating standards of the Stroke wards
• Ensure appropriate handover of care at the end of a shift to the next responsible clinician.
• Liaise with specialty clinicians to facilitate their early involvement
• Further develop functional links with the community to facilitate seamless transfer of patients between the community and the hospital.
• Ensure timely completion of all documentation pertinent to an admission, transfer, discharge or death, in line with hospital standards.
• Supervise and ensure robust and effective hospital clinical handover at 09:00 am each morning Monday – Friday moving to 7 days when service extends
• To engage and work in line with the Criteria to reside principles as set out by the Trust
• Contribute to the Thrombolysis and Ward Cover on call rota

As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients.  We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

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Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated. To view a full job description and person specification please see attachments on this advert

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