Job summary
- Main area
- Stroke Rehabilitation
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 40 hours per week
- Job ref
- 151-HS-38
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Camberley
- Salary
- £66,653 - £77,094 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Consultant AHP/Nurse - Stroke Rehabilitation Clinical Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and highly motivated non medical consultant in stroke Rehabilitation to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team. This is an exciting opportunity for an advanced practitioner to take on a consultant level role leading on clinical assessment, rehabilitation planning, service development within a supportive forward thinking environment.
The post holder will provide expert clinical leadership in rehabilitation medicine, undertaking assessments, leading daily ward rounds and guiding MDT team. You will play a key role in research, education, and contribute to improvement of rehabilitation services across the trust.
Our Values
We are committed to excellence, collaboration, and innovation. We welcome applicants who reflect our values and are passionate about improving stroke rehabilitation outcomes.
What we offer
- A supportive and collaborative working environment
- Opportunities for professional development and leadership training
- Access to research and innovation programmes
- Flexible working arrangements where necessary
Main duties of the job
- Provide advanced clinical assessment and direct care for patients with complex rehabilitation needs. Offer expert clinical advice and support colleagues across all disciplines.
- Lead daily ward rounds, setting rehabilitation goals and ensuring high quality patient centred care. Coordinate MDT meeting to deliver effective rehabilitation plans. Maintain effective communication with patients, families to ensure continuity of care.
- Drive service development and pathway redesign.
- Champion clinical governance, audit, and research to maintain excellence and innovation.
- Current HCPC or NMC registration as a Nurse or AHP.
- Independent and supplementary prescribing qualification.
- Master’s degree in a advanced clinical practice (or working towards completion).
- Demonstrable experience in stroke or neuro-rehabilitation at advanced practice level.
- Proven ability to lead service development, quality improvement, and clinical governance.
- Excellent communication, clinical reasoning, and leadership skills.
- Experience working at a consultant or equivalent senior leadership level.
- Formal training in coaching, mentoring, or change management.
- Evidence of presenting at clinical forums or contributing to research publications.
- Car owner/driver required for cross-site travel.
- Flexibility to work across services and settings.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and job specification for further details on the main responsibilities for this role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC/ NMC Registration
- Recognized degree or equivalent in relevant profession
- MSc in related area or equivalent experience
- Registered with HCPC or NMC as an independent prescriber
- Highly developed specialist knowledge supplemented by recent postgraduate courses relevant to stroke & neurological rehabilitation
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of relevant non-clinical management training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant clinical experience working at an advanced practice level in own professional area
- Significant experience of contributing to the development of business plans and service development initiatives
- Experience of leading developing and implementation of policies and procedures, care pathways and protocols
Desirable criteria
- Able to demonstrate knowledge of budget management, cost improvement and efficiency measures.
Skills and Knowlege
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate highly advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to take a lead role in Clinical Governance and its implications for services including experience of quality and safety issues and leading audit
- Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner at the highest level
- Remain updated with professional practice and new research with evidence of personal contribution to the evidence base
- High level communication skills including excellent presentation, verbal and written skills being able to influence at all levels and produce work of publishable quality.
Desirable criteria
- Able to lead teams through service review, re-design and deliver change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ailsa Hutchings
- Job title
- Stroke Nurse Consultant
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 614 6117
- Additional information
Dr Speirs
Clinical Lead
Email: [email protected]
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