Stroke Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Stroke Specialist Nurse

Are you an experienced and compassionate healthcare professional with a passion for stroke care? To work as a senior skilled member of the nursing team, to provide a high standard of holistic patient centred care for stroke patients. Ability to promote patient centred care and establish good relationships with patients and families/carers. To work in ED and on the stroke unit.

The successful candidate should have a passion for looking after stroke patients, in ED and on the stroke unit. Having no stroke experience should never stop anybody wanting to apply. We are a motivated and enthusiastic team and welcome new colleagues to join us. To succeed in this role you will demonstrate the ability to work alone as well as part of a team and possess sound clinical assessment and communication skills.

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To communicate effectively at all levels within the multi-disciplinary team.

To be able to take charge of the unit clinically, in the absence of senior nursing staff and to support junior members of staff to develop their clinical skills and knowledge.

To be able to manage the patient flow within the department with consideration to target delivery and ensuring stroke patients get to the stroke unit within the allocated time.

As a Senior Staff Nurse / Stroke Specialist Nurse you will also be responsible for the initial assessment of the acute stroke patient in ED, initiation of the thrombolysis/thrombectomy pathway, facilitating patient flow within stroke, progression of admission and transfer of care into the community. If a stroke is suspected; the stroke nurse/ deputy sister will transfer the patient to the acute stroke unit at the earliest possible opportunity

Senior Staff Nurse / Stroke Specialist Nurse will gain extensive knowledge of stroke symptoms, along with neurological conditions that may present as a stroke mimic will be taught with a comprehensive training package. Cannulation and venepuncture are essential in this role. The applicant must have or must be willing to undertake this extended training that will be provided on the ward via SIM training, stroke specific university modules, conferences and teaching.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with

visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.

We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.

The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.

Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

PLEASE NOTE: To view the full Job Description and Person Specification, please click the supporting document on the right-hand side. 

To be an employee of the NHS you need to successfully complete the following: 

• Identity Checks 
• Professional registration and qualification checks 
• Employment history and reference checks 
• Occupational Health clearance
• Satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service check
• Right to work in the UK

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We reserve the right to close this advert early.

We may be able to offer flexible working. Please discuss at interview.

We may be able to offer sponsorship but this is not guaranteed.

Thank you for your application if you have not received a reply within 21 days of the closing date you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please be aware that your application and related documents will be retained confidentially for a period of 12 months.

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. To work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require a visa - we may be able to provide sponsorship, but this is not guaranteed.

Benefits include optional pension and life assurance and a dedicated Childcare Co-ordination Team

We are committed to ensuring our staff are developed, engaged and supported to work in different ways to support the ever-changing environment in which we operate.

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust is a non-smoking organisation.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record Inter Authority

Royal Cornwall Hospital is an Equal Opportunities employer.