Locum Consultant in Acute Internal & Stroke Medicine

Responsibilities for a senior clinician include the full range of activities routinely undertaken in assessing and managing acutely unwell medical patients. Alongside covering our acute medical unit, we also provide acute physician cover to our emergency department and work closely alongside our physician colleagues to manage the acute medical take.Our well established innovative 'Physician A & B' model ensures that there is an acute physician working alongside our emergency medicine colleagues at the front door 14 hours a day, 7 days a week. The Wolverhampton Stroke Service was established in 1995.Our Stroke service provides Hyperacute and Acute Care for the combined populations of Wolverhampton, Walsall and South Staffordshire which has a combined population of around 600000 people.Our Stroke service is housed in a purpose built 39 bedded ward with an integrated TIA clinic directly adjacent to the ward. We have around 1200 confirmed Stroke admissions each year.We provide a 24/7 Stroke thrombolysis service and have a 24/7 Stroke thrombectomy pathway to UHNM Hospital in Stoke on Trent.We currently have 8.0 WTE Stroke Consultants in post.The advertised post is to replace a locum consultant post with a substantive post to maintain 8 WTE Stroke consultants in total.All work duties for the successful candidate are within the Stroke directorate. There is no general medical on call commitment with this post.