Company Description
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
Job Description
The Stroke Unit of Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust is one of the busiest centres in the UK. We had over 5000 referrals between 2024 -2025 and thrombolysed over 200 patients, with nearly 10 % going for mechanical thrombectomy at the regional specialist centre in Southampton. Our reach and ability to open the revascularisation window has now been extended with our CT perfusion systems being online. We have a 34-bed stroke unit in which there are 12 designated HASU beds, as well as a newly purpose built 30 bed rehab unit with 2 dedicated neuro-gymnasiums, and a 7-day outpatient TIA service.
Currently, we are in partnership with Isle of Wight NHS Trust providing with consultant and senior support on a daily basis through out of hours thrombolysis on call cover.
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Registrar in Stroke Medicine to work in a well-motivated team of 6 other Consultants (some locum), and another Speciality Grade Doctor in Stroke Medicine. There is ample opportunity and encouragement to pursue, service quality improvement projects, teaching, and supervision.
The post holder will be involved in a 5 days a week 8am-5pm scheduled stroke rota to support an acute stroke response team, TIA clinics, acute stroke and stroke rehabilitation wards. There will be no requirement to contribute to the night on-call rota, however the post holder will need to support our Stroke Nurse Specialists and Stroke Consultants in the Emergency Department when on acute day duties.
The Post holder will need to triage and review patients in the TIA clinic through the week also to take the ward-based responsibilities when needed.
The post holder will be expected to contribute to education of our junior medical and non-medical therapy and nursing teams.
Qualifications
Essential
- Full GMC registration with a full medical licence to practice.
- Primary medical degree recognised by the GMC.
- Some Stroke medicine experience.
Desirable
- Skills to interpret brain stroke related images like CT, MRI, CTA and CT perfusion
Clinical Skills
- Understanding the current developments within the field of Acute Stroke Medicine and Rehabilitation, and being able to apply with best evidence based practice.
- Essential medical skills and competencies in recognising and dealing with most frequent stroke related medical conditions and complications.
Teaching & Audit
- Regular teaching and education of medical and non-medical teams.
- Quality improvement or audit relevant to the field.
Leadership and Management
- Understanding of the NHS leadership and management framework.
- Work effectively with your peers and other colleagues across the breadth of specialties.
- Understand and mange personal workload.
- Leading, and inspiring junior colleagues.
Other
- Full right to work in the UK.
- Comprehensive IT skills.
- Excellent communication skills in English in both written and oral.
- Self-awareness of one’s own impact on others
- Be a good role model and ambassador for the trust and department, leading by example, ensuring good moral and ethical integrity.
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
