Job summary
Join a New Early Supported Stroke Discharge (ESSD) Team. High Peak & North Dales. Do you have the clinical skills, passion and experience to make a real difference in stroke rehabilitation? Are you excited by the opportunity to help shape a brand-new, community-based service from the very beginning?

About the role
We are looking for an enthusiastic, skilled and motivated Stroke Specialist Nurse to join our newly established Early Supported Stroke Discharge (ESSD) team, delivering care across High Peak and North Dales. This is a rare opportunity to be part of the development of a new service, working in line with the established and highly regarded ESSD model used across Derbyshire. You will play a key role in enabling people to leave hospital earlier and recover safely and effectively in their own homes, delivering high-quality, evidence-based stroke rehabilitation.

What you'll be part of

• A supportive, friendly and progressive ESSD service
• The wider Stroke and Neurology Service within DCHS
• A multidisciplinary team with a strong commitment to patient-centred, evidence-based care
• A service that places training, development and staff wellbeing at its heart

Why join us?
This post is part of exciting county-wide work to improve the stroke pathway across Derbyshire. You will be joining something truly meaningful at a pivotal moment, helping to shape how stroke rehabilitation is delivered to our communities.

Main duties of the job
To provide nursing expertise within the multi-disciplinary ESSD team. This includes acting as an expert practitioner, liaising, guiding and advising the multidisciplinary team and external agencies in the provision of optimum nursing care for stroke patients on the ESSD pathway. To facilitate person centred care, enabling people with stroke to manage their condition effectively and independently, preventing complications and improving quality of life. To participate in the development of effective, responsive, evidence based and patient centred services. To assist and or lead on specific projects in agreement with the Team Leader and Operational Lead for the Service. To work in close collaboration with other teams providing stroke care, and with partners across health and social care in locality, to support the delivery of effective ESSD services.

About us
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire. We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people's own homes and via virtual consultations.

Job responsibilities
As an employer and sponsor licence holder, to be able to provide sponsorship to overseas nationals via the Skilled Worker route we must ensure that we adhere to the sponsorship requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration. After carefully reviewing this role, we do not believe that this position meets the requirements for sponsorship. For details on eligibility criteria for a Skilled Worker visa, please follow this link to the gov.uk website Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

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Person Specification
Skills

• Experience of working with stroke patients
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Ability to assess, manage and provide nursing interventions to patients following stroke
• Experience of psychological impact of stroke and ability to undertake appropriate mood assessments
• Experience of working/liaising with and supporting families and carers

Qualifications

• Degree (or equivalent qualification) in Adult Nursing
• NMC registered
• Post graduate experience and training in Stroke Nursing Care

Knowledge

• Minimum 2 years post graduate experience
• Evidence of working in stroke rehabilitation
• Minimum 1 year working in a community setting (Desirable)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Applicants must have current UK professional registration.