Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Acute Stroke
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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP)
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an enthusiastic Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) to join the Acute Stroke Service.
This role is central to the delivery of high-quality hyper acute and acute stroke care, supporting patients across the stroke pathway including Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU), acute stroke wards, and rapid-access Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) clinics.
Once qualified, the ACP will be an experienced, knowledgeable, and autonomous practitioner providing advanced clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and ongoing management of patients presenting with suspected or confirmed acute stroke and TIA. Advanced practice is underpinned by the four pillars of clinical practice, leadership, education, and research, with a strong focus on direct patient care and service development.
The postholder will join the service during an exciting time of expansion. The expectation will be for the postholder to form part of a weekend rota which may change as more roles are approved and recruited to. A full overview of this is contained in the detailed job description below.
Benefits
- 20% non-clinical time for you to develop across the four pillars of advanced practice
- ACP peer teaching
- Trust ACP Lead support
- Allocated medical supervisor
- Undertake all associated training and study with the ACP qualification
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Post Qualification Duties
- Work closely with the Stroke Consultant team, stroke nursing team, therapists, radiology, and emergency services to provide safe, effective, and timely care to patients with suspected or confirmed stroke and TIA across HASU, acute stroke wards, and outpatient settings.
- Undertake advanced clinical assessment for patients presenting with acute neurological deficits, including differentiation between stroke, TIA, and stroke mimics.
- Act as an autonomous practitioner within agreed scope, providing expert clinical decision-making in complex, time-critical situations.
- Support The Hyper Acute Stroke Pathway, including:
- Initial assessment and prioritisation
- Coordination of urgent imaging
- Support for thrombolysis and thrombectomy pathways
- Ongoing monitoring and escalation of clinical deterioration
- Undertake independent prescribing to optimise secondary stroke prevention and symptom management in line with national and local guidelines.
- Accurately request and interpret radiological and pathology investigations relevant to acute stroke and TIA management.
- Provide advanced clinical care for patients attending TIA/rapid-access stroke clinics, including risk stratification, initiation of secondary prevention, and onward referral.
About Us
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
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We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
Contact Information
For further details/informal visits contact:
Name: Georgia Kelly
Job Title: General Manager
Email Address: Georgia.kelly@cht.nhs.uk
Dr Karthik Viswanathan
Job Title: Clinical Director
Phone Number: 01422 22000
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