Stroke Specialist Nurse

Job summary
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.

Main duties of the job
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.

About us
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.

Job 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.

Qualifications
Essential

• NMC registration
• Holds, or working towards, a degree
• Completion or commitment to undertake relevant extended role scope competencies.

Desirable

• University qualification in specialty.
• Teaching/assessment/ mentoring qualification.

Experience
Essential

• Relevant nursing experience within specialty
• Audit or research experience
• Teaching and education experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).