Trust Grade Registrar Stroke Medicine

Transformationunitgm; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 66,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in the UK is looking for a Trust Grade doctor to join their Stroke team. This role requires full MRCP and experience in relevant specialties. The position offers opportunities for involvement in audits and governance, working with junior doctors and ED teams. With a salary of £65,048 per year, this 12-month position includes benefits like a wellbeing programme, NHS discounts, and cycle schemes. Interested candidates are encouraged to apply before the closing date of 21/01/2026.

Benefits

Access to Staff Wellbeing programme

Secure cycle facilities

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Full GMC registration and a valid licence to practice required.
• Experience in an acute inpatient setting in a large acute hospital.
• NHS experience at ST3/CT3 level is essential.

Responsibilities

• Providing support and advice to junior doctors and ED team.
• Participating in audits and governance activities.
• Managing stroke patients in TIA clinics.

Skills

Clinical medicine

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Communication skills

Education

GMC Registration with licence to practice

Full MRCP

MBBS or equivalent

IELTS minimum score 7.5

Job description

Main area Stroke Grade NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee (ST3+) Contract 12 months (12 months fixed term contract)

Hours

• Full time
• Part time

40 hours per week Job ref 164-7612621-VC

Employer Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site QMC and City Town Nottingham Salary £65,048 plus out of hours supplement Salary period Yearly Closing 21/01/2026 23:59

NHS Medical & Dental: Specialty Trainee (ST3+)

Job overview

We are looking for a new Trust Grade doctor to join us at NUH within our Stroke team, at CT3+ level. The post is available for 12 months initially with the possibility to extend if mutually agreed.

This role is for you if you have full MRCP plus experience in specialities including Geriatric Medicine, Neurology, Rehabilitation Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics or General (Internal) Medicine and to those who intend to make a career in Stroke Medicine.

There will be opportunities to undertake audits, to be involved in governance activities and to take part in service improvement projects to enhance your CV. There is also the opportunity to get involved in seeing patients in the TIA clinics and receiving potential Stroke patients in ED.

The post will be working across all stroke areas particularly on the hyper‑acute stroke admissions ward, providing support and advice to junior doctors, as well as the ED team.

NUH stroke services also provides 5 days a week 08:00‑17:00 hrs Mechanical Thrombectomy service for the East Midlands.

Main duties of the job

Please also familiarise yourself with the job description and person specification.

The Stroke service is across the two sites, both City hospital & QMC and consists of a hyper‑acute ward, and acute ward based at QMC and rehabilitation ward at City campus, as well as a daily Fast Track TIA clinic. We had 1800 admissions to our stroke unit last year, with a further 600 patients reviewed at the TIA clinic.

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals (NUH) is one of the biggest and busiest NHS Trusts in the country with a budget of over £1billion and over 19,000 staff. We provide services to over 2.5 million residents of Nottinghamshire.

NUH has a national and international reputation for the quality of our patient care and for research, education and innovation.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits including:

• Access to the Staff Wellbeing programme including our free 24 hour staff advice and emotional support service, financial advice service, a staff physiotherapy service and staff support networks
• Secure cycle facilities
• Access to Spiritual and Pastoral Care Services
• Salary sacrifice schemes
• Cycle to work and travel passes
• NHS discounts

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please note previous applicants need not apply.

This is a service post so does not have educational approval, but successful applicants will be provided with training and educational opportunities, tailored to meet individual needs. Where service provision allows, successful applicants are encouraged to attend educational teaching sessions.

Post holders will be expected to keep themselves up to date with current knowledge and practice, to attend clinical meetings within departments and to participate in audit and in service training of other professionals. Mutually acceptable arrangements will be put into place to ensure that the individual is able to attend meetings and training as required / appropriate. The successful candidates will be expected to maintain an educational portfolio and will have named Educational and Clinical Supervision.

Post holders can expect:

• To build upon postgraduate clinical experience (or equivalent)
• To develop further expertise in the identification and management of acute stroke (e.g. thrombolysis, mechanical thrombectomy, assessment for decompressive hemicraniectomy) and its complications
• To gain experience and familiarity in identifying and managing a wide variety of other medical conditions (e.g. stroke mimics), including making appropriate decisions regarding the need for admission, the development of strategies which might provide an alternative to admission and identifying where early discharge would be safe and appropriate
• To further develop skills of history taking, physical examination, appropriate investigation and rational prescribing
• To increasingly work towards independent practice at Registrar level, leading ward rounds, assessing patients, making decisions etc. with Consultant support and supervision available at all times

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

• GMC Registration with licence to practice
• Full ALS Certification
• Full MRCP
• MBBS or equivalent
• IELTS core minimum 7.5 with no individual area going under 7.5 OR minimum grade B in all four sub tests of the OET

Experience

• Good and wide ranging recent experience of clinical medicine in acute inpatient setting in a large acute hospital
• Evidence of completion of key competencies equivalent to at least ST3 level.
• Experience of working out of hours with limited support
• NHS experience at ST3/CT3 level

Communication and Relationship Skills

• Ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team

Planning and organisational skills

• Evidence of active involvement in design and running of relevant clinical audit
• Experience of presenting case reports, audit or research results
• Experience of supervising junior colleagues

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Applicants are kindly requested to refrain from using AI at any stage during the recruitment process.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

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If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licences through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation into the Trust ID system at your face‑to‑face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre‑employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service – I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post may be subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£49.50 for enhanced and £21.50 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Dr Kailash Krishnan
Job title Head of Service - Stroke
Email address [e-mail]

Additional information:
Dr Satyajit Barua – [e-mail]