This is a great opportunity to join the growing and dynamic stroke team at North Bristol NHS Trust, and we are seeking a Junior Clinical Fellow to start with us in August 2025. This post is fixed-term for 12 months.
We have a great team of junior doctor trainees, Physician Associates, and Advanced Nurse Practitioners who work alongside the multidisciplinary team of therapists in delivering excellent stroke care.
The Stroke Department at Southmead Hospital is a major part of the Regional Neurosciences Centre. It provides all in-patient specialist stroke services including:
• 24hr acute thrombolysis
• Hyperacute and acute stroke care
• 24/7 Thrombectomy service
This role will involve working on the Hyperacute Stroke Unit, the Acute Stroke Unit and supporting the senior team in acute bleep holding. Participation in the Neurosciences out of hours on call rota will be required (overnight and weekends).
North Bristol NHS Trust is the largest Trust in the South West region, and one of the largest trusts in the country. Last year the Trust treated over 100,000 inpatients, over 350,000 outpatients, 90,000 emergency department patients and helped deliver over 6,000 babies. It employs more than 9,500 staff, has approximately 1,050 inpatient beds and income in excess of £540 million.
The Trust provides medical surgical, neonatal and maternity care for its local population of approximately a million people in Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset. The Trust also provides regional services in neurosciences, orthopaedics, pathology, plastic surgery and burns, renal medicine and transplant and urology and is the major trauma centre and thrombectomy centre for the Severn Network.
Please see the attached job description for more information regarding the role. If you would like to speak to a current junior doctor working in stroke please contact irmak.salt@nbt.nhs.uk
Please note that unfortunately North Bristol NHS Trust is not able to offer relocation allowance/expenses for this role.
This advert closes on Thursday 3 Apr 2025