Stroke Practitioner

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the stroke practitioner team at Royal Hampshire County Hospital. The team consists of Advanced Clinical Practitioners and stroke practitioners who manage the care of acute presentations to the hospital Emergency Department in order to provide timely assessment and access to hyper acute stroke treatments such as IV thrombolysis and Mechanical Thrombectomy. Whilst working within the team there is the opportunity for the successful applicant to develop acute stroke assessment skills and be part of a growing service.

Main duties of the job

• Manage a caseload of patients through the initial acute phase of their stroke treatment, initiate the stroke pathway and work as part of an assertive front door team to be able to offer acute treatment interventions.
• Work to ensure that key front door stroke SSNAP targets are met.
• Communicate effectively both with service users as well as the MDT including stroke consultants, ACP, ward nurses, radiology, onward referrals to regional trusts.
• Assess patients using NIHSS and advanced history taking and physical assessment skills as appropriate.

About us

Working for our Organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.