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The Acute Stroke & TIA Nurse Consultant provides highly specialised expert clinical leadership in the hyperacute and acute management of stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA). The post holder will be a senior autonomous practitioner with advanced decision-making responsibility across rapid assessment, diagnosis, reperfusion treatment, and early inpatient management.
The role has a predominant acute clinical focus, spending a minimum of two-thirds of time in direct clinical care, including:
Act as an expert autonomous clinician in the assessment and management of patients presenting with suspected acute stroke or TIA.
Lead and support hyperacute stroke decision-making, including:
o Eligibility assessment for IV thrombolysis
o Advanced imaging interpretation (CT/CTA/CTP as appropriate)
o Escalation and coordination of mechanical thrombectomy pathways
Provide senior clinical leadership within the HASU, ED, and acute stroke unit, including out-of-hours and weekend working according to rota.
Undertake urgent TIA assessment clinics, ensuring rapid risk stratification, diagnosis, initiation of secondary prevention, and onward management.
Provide an expert clinical consultant service that promotes professional practice with regard to the identification and management of stroke patients that ensures clinical excellence.
Assess the individual needs of patients using a range of different methods that manage risk and are appropriate to the needs of the patients across the whole range of stroke pathway, ensuring that complex facts and situations that require analysis, interpretation, and comparison over a range of options are considered.
Lead service development initiatives relating to:
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.