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Job overview

Frimley Park Hospital Stroke Unit is looking for enthusiastic and innovative professionals to complement the current team of 5 Stroke physicians and to help us continue to deliver a high performing service. Frimley Park Hospital has a well-deserved reputation for good quality stroke care, and we have consistently achieved excellent outcomes for our patients. We have been recognised as providing one of the best stroke services in Surrey and Southeast Coast.

Stroke is a strategic priority for the Trust as we believe our patients deserve the very best. Candidates are expected to have received subspecialty training in stroke medicine with a parent speciality in Geriatrics, GIM, Neurology or Acute Medicine

Frimley Park Hospital is commissioned to provide Hyper Acute Stroke Care (HASU) to the communities Frimley Health serves in Surrey, Berkshire, Hampshire, and Buckinghamshire. We deliver Hyper Acute and Acute Stroke services at Frimley Park Hospital as well as TIA, six week follow up and six-month review clinics. The HASU (10 beds) is located at Frimley Park Hospital with on-going ASU care for patients at Frimley Park Hospital (18 beds) and Royal Surrey County Hospital (RSCH), Guildford (13 beds). Stroke rehabilitation is provided within the trust and at Wexham Park Hospital, Farnham Hospital and RSCH. In addition, we have a highly regarded Early Supported Discharge (ESD) team.

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will be based at Frimley Park Hospital. The post holder will be expected to deliver stroke care across all areas of the pathway including HASU and ASU ward rounds, TIA clinic and Stroke follow up clinics. They will work alongside our multidisciplinary team (MDT) of stroke physicians, stroke nurse consultant, stroke nurse specialists, clinical neuropsychologist, and stroke therapists. We also have a KSS deanery Stroke ST3 post and are appointing 2 middle grades to be entirely based within the stroke department. FY1, FY2, IMT, and GP trainees rotate through the department. The successful applicant will take part in a 1:8 on call rota providing 24/7 thrombolysis and weekend HASU ward rounds. Our thrombectomy providers are St George’s University Hospital, London and Kings College Hospital, London. We have a growing research portfolio and encourage applicants with an interest in research and education. We have close links with our colleagues in neurology, neuroradiology and vascular surgery with weekly MDT meetings. 

So, if you’re looking for a fantastic place to work and you share our values of being committed to excellence, working together, and facing the future, then please apply online.

Working for our organisation

There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire. 

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.

If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.