Stroke Nurse Practitioner | University Hospitals NHS Trust

A Band 6 Stroke Nurse Practitioner position has arisen at Queens Medical Centre. We are seeking an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual with excellent leadership skills to support the team. Whether you are an experienced Band 5 Staff Nurse or have a wealth of experience and are looking for a new challenge, this role on the C4-HASU FAST team and senior nurse team will expand your knowledge base and clinical skills immensely.

Work as an autonomous practitioner responsible for triage and initial assessment, examination, initiation of treatments and investigations for suspected stroke patients adhering to protocols.

• Implement, coordinate, review and evaluate care in collaboration with medical colleagues.
• Be responsible for the coordination of assessment and appropriate clinical transfer of patients with a suspected stroke.
• Coordinate and manage the shift on the hyper‑acute stroke unit.
• Assist with data collection to input to the Sentinel Stroke National Audit Programme (SSNAP), ensuring patients receive best possible care in accordance with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) Acute Stroke Management Guidelines.
• Work with senior stroke clinicians to review, evaluate and develop plans to improve SSNAP data.
• Take senior management role in the absence of ward managers and other seniors across the stroke service.
• Ensure that accurate and timely information is given to the patient and/or their relatives.

• Act as an advanced practitioner and professional role model, demonstrating advanced clinical skills, promoting clinical excellence and ensuring that an optimum standard of nursing care is delivered from admission to transfer/discharge.
• Adhere to professional codes of conduct at all times.
• Assist medical staff in assessing emergency patients, arranging for specific tests (blood, radiology, etc.) and acting on them.
• Triage and monitor all emergency patients with a suspected diagnosis of stroke and act to ensure maximum standards of care.
• Perform assessment and physical examination of emergency patients, initiate appropriate treatments and investigations.
• Act as source of expert knowledge around thrombolysis and mechanical thrombolysis.
• Be proficient in the administration and management of patients receiving thrombolysis.
• Take responsibility for coordinating emergency out‑of‑hours stroke patient management in relation to thrombolysis.
• Assist in the collection of data to prove adherence to stroke protocols and performance against national stroke targets.
• Be capable of requesting diagnostic investigations as appropriate, and acting on the results.
• Perform expanded practical clinical roles specific to the Stroke service, e.g., cannulation, venepuncture, swallowing assessments, ECG recording and interpretation, CT scan requests and pathology requests.
• Ensure timely and appropriate transfer and/or discharge of patients from ward area, providing a seamless patient pathway.
• Liaise with patients and relatives to ensure appropriate and informed care choices are enabled.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or disabled, as we are working to improve representation at NUH.

• Increased career development opportunities are offered within our large acute teaching trust.

• Our team has a strong focus on patient and public involvement, using feedback to continuously improve the patient experience.

This advert closed on Monday 19 Jan 2026.