Job summary
We are currently seeking a passionate Band 6 Stroke Nurse Specialist to join our Integrated Stroke Early Supported Discharge & Community Neuro Rehabilitation Service. Our integrated service provides stroke rehabilitation and community neurorehabilitation support to service users with complex needs.
As a Stroke Nurse Specialist, you will have the opportunity to work alongside a multidisciplinary team of highly skilled & experienced professionals, including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Psychologists, Neuro Rehab Assistants, and other healthcare professionals.
You will be responsible for managing a clinical caseload across Cambridgeshire & playing a key role in shaping the service, as well as supporting the development of your colleagues. You will carry out comprehensive nursing assessments and deliver evidence-based interventions. You'll work closely with the wider Multidisciplinary Team to ensure coordinated, patient-centred care.
You should feel confident working across different settings, including patients' homes, inpatient wards, or community gyms, and be comfortable using virtual consultations to support your caseload. A smartphone and laptop will be provided to assist you in your role.
If you are flexible, adaptable, and able to travel independently across your work locality--and have access to a car for work purposes--we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Please note for this role you will be required to travel independently around the county meeting strict time deadlines. You will need to hold a full UK driving licence* and have use of a vehicle. You cannot use public transport for this role as this is not a reliable form of transport and will not allow you to meet service needs. Please confirm in your application that you meet the specified criteria.
- Provide high-quality specialist stroke advice & rehabilitation to stroke patients, supporting their independence and recovery.
- Manage a caseload of complex stroke patients, ensuring effective case management.
- Offer specialist assessments and guidance on diagnosis, medications, investigations, recovery, prevention, and rehabilitation.
- Advocate for patients, ensuring they receive necessary care and treatment.
- Support and train colleagues in conducting six-month reviews and contribute to ongoing training initiatives.
- Maintain compliance with local and national clinical standards (RCP & NICE).
- Utilise outcome measures and service data to demonstrate clinical effectiveness.
- Ensure high standards of governance, clinical safety, and patient experience.
- Identify and mitigate risks within the service.
- Continue professional development and training.
*DVLA have a number ofreciprocalarrangements with overseas countries, for further information please visit the DVLA website
About us
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting andempowering them to lead a fulfilling life.
Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.
To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.
Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.
Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process.
For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Conduct specialist stroke nursing assessments and develop evidence-based care plans.
- Provide individualised patient-centred information on stroke diagnosis, investigations, and treatments.
- Offer secondary prevention advice and support interdisciplinary rehabilitation planning.
- Work collaboratively with acute stroke services, primary care, and community colleagues.
- Manage complex cases involving comorbidities and liaise with relevant professionals for optimal patient outcomes.
- Deliver emotional support and conduct mood assessments (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7).
- Identify rehabilitation goals using a multidisciplinary approach.
- Provide guidance on neuropathic pain, vision assessment, spasticity, and cognitive effects of stroke.
- Provide continence initial assessment & advice post stroke and make specialist referrals where necessary.
- Work across various settings, including patient homes, inpatient rehabilitation beds, care homes, and community locations.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- Conduct specialist stroke nursing assessments and develop evidence-based care plans.
- Provide individualised patient-centred information on stroke diagnosis, investigations, and treatments.
- Offer secondary prevention advice and support interdisciplinary rehabilitation planning.
- Work collaboratively with acute stroke services, primary care, and community colleagues.
- Manage complex cases involving comorbidities and liaise with relevant professionals for optimal patient outcomes.
- Deliver emotional support and conduct mood assessments (e.g., PHQ-9, GAD-7).
- Identify rehabilitation goals using a multidisciplinary approach.
- Provide guidance on neuropathic pain, vision assessment, spasticity, and cognitive effects of stroke.
- Provide continence initial assessment & advice post stroke and make specialist referrals where necessary.
- Work across various settings, including patient homes, inpatient rehabilitation beds, care homes, and community locations.
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent e.g. Diploma entry level qualification into the Nursing profession.
- Current NMC Registration
- Professional knowledge and training that is stroke/neurological specific.
- Documented evidence of own continuing professional development
- Willingness to undertake Fieldwork/Practice Educator qualification.
Desirable
- Fieldwork/practice Educator qualification
- Member RCN
- NMC qualification (Specialist practitioner/district nursing
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post-graduate clinical experience in Stroke & rehabilitation
- Clinical experience working in stroke (acute/ rehabilitation)
- Clinical Supervisor
- Proven record of NHS experience in a variety of settings
Desirable
- Involvement in regional or national clinical bodies e.g. clinical interest groups, conferences.
- Experience of being involved in research study.
- Experience of developing & delivering training to colleagues
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to review clinical pathways and implement change.
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.
- Advanced communication skills and report writing using standard keyboard skills using packages such as word.
- Able to assess plan and implement care.
- Good time management and prioritisation skills
- Able to impart skills/knowledge to others within formal/informal settings.
- Support junior staff and non-registered staff
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
- Recognises the limits of own knowledge & ability within the role and seeks and uses professional support appropriately.
- Understands the principle of confidentiality
- Demonstrates professional curiosity
- Knowledge of relevant outcome measures
- Knowledge in stroke rehabilitation /neurology
Desirable
- SystmOne
- Awareness of equipment providers e.g.: NRS.
- Evidence of presenting at a local or regional level or willingness to develop skills.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- The ability to kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments.
- The ability to use moving and handling equipment to manoeuvre patients.
- Must have access to a personal car and the ability to drive independently around the locality, due to the radius covered and lack of public transport in some area
Other
Essential
- Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings.
- Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems.
- In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down and has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress.
- Recognise and upholds Trusts PRIDE values
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- Willingness to be flexible in in approach and attitude.
- Flexibility to work over seven days per week
Person Specification
Education / Qualifications
Essential
- Degree or equivalent e.g. Diploma entry level qualification into the Nursing profession.
- Current NMC Registration
- Professional knowledge and training that is stroke/neurological specific.
- Documented evidence of own continuing professional development
- Willingness to undertake Fieldwork/Practice Educator qualification.
Desirable
- Fieldwork/practice Educator qualification
- Member RCN
- NMC qualification (Specialist practitioner/district nursing
Experience
Essential
- Relevant post-graduate clinical experience in Stroke & rehabilitation
- Clinical experience working in stroke (acute/ rehabilitation)
- Clinical Supervisor
- Proven record of NHS experience in a variety of settings
Desirable
- Involvement in regional or national clinical bodies e.g. clinical interest groups, conferences.
- Experience of being involved in research study.
- Experience of developing & delivering training to colleagues
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Ability to review clinical pathways and implement change.
- Able to demonstrate commitment to high quality care and service provision.
- Ability to work flexibly as part of a team.
- Advanced communication skills and report writing using standard keyboard skills using packages such as word.
- Able to assess plan and implement care.
- Good time management and prioritisation skills
- Able to impart skills/knowledge to others within formal/informal settings.
- Support junior staff and non-registered staff
Knowledge & Understanding
Essential
- Accepts responsibility and accountability for own work and can define the responsibilities of others.
- Recognises the limits of own knowledge & ability within the role and seeks and uses professional support appropriately.
- Understands the principle of confidentiality
- Demonstrates professional curiosity
- Knowledge of relevant outcome measures
- Knowledge in stroke rehabilitation /neurology
Desirable
- SystmOne
- Awareness of equipment providers e.g.: NRS.
- Evidence of presenting at a local or regional level or willingness to develop skills.
Physical Requirements
Essential
- The ability to kneel, bend & stoop, and work in cramped environments.
- The ability to use moving and handling equipment to manoeuvre patients.
- Must have access to a personal car and the ability to drive independently around the locality, due to the radius covered and lack of public transport in some area
Other
Essential
- Listens to and understands directly and indirectly expressed feelings.
- Manages strong emotions and responds constructively to the source of problems.
- In highly stressful situations keeps own feelings in check, takes constructive action and calms others down and has a range of mechanisms for dealing with stress.
- Recognise and upholds Trusts PRIDE values
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working.
- Willingness to be flexible in in approach and attitude.
- Flexibility to work over seven days per week
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
