Consultant in Stroke and Care of the Elderly | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 02 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £109,725 - £145,478 per annum (dependant on experience) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 October 2025 |
| Location: | Huddersfield/Halifax, HD3 3EA |
| Company: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7379666/372-MED-MD219 |
Summary
Weareexcitedtoshareanopportunitytojoinour elderly care and stroke medicine teams at CHFT. The elderly care team consists of 10 consultants and the stroke team consists of 5 including this post.
Our stroke consultants are expected to:
• Provide effective and compassionate care for our Stroke patients across bed base of 48 beds
• Develop their own area of specialist interest and provide sub-specialty expertise.
• Develop and expand the current Stroke service locally and regionally.
• As a core member of the West Yorkshire Associate of Acute Trusts (WYAAT), collaborate closely with the Tertiary service team at Leeds Teaching Hospitals.
• Get involved in clinical research, teaching and development.
• Provide expert advice and support regarding complex cases to clinical colleagues in primary and secondary care.
Our Elderly Care services have recently been developed to bring the teams together and improve the care of patients in our local community. Our services are currently evolving, and by joining us at this exciting time it will give you the unique opportunity to lead the development of new services across hospital and community settings. Our future plans and transformation projects include the further development of a Virtual Ward and Frailty SDEC, as well as the reconfiguration of our hospital sites.
Post holder will be providing assessment of patients suspected to have acute stroke when holding the hot phone including suitability for thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy. Post holder will be doing a TIA clinic for stroke prevention.
Postholder will be looking after patients on HASU and ASU ie daily morning ward round during 1 week in 5 weeks by rotation with the other 4 Consultants. The post holder will also be responsible for ongoing rehabilitation of stroke patients in stroke rehab ward. The post holder will be following patients from TIA clinic and discharged patients from ASU and Stroke Rehab ward in a follow-up clinic once week.
The Elderly Care medical team manages a substantive bed base of 103 acute elderly care beds. Consultants currently work in a model consisting of 2 consultants per ward which provides a consistent approach to patient care, as well as the ability to cross-cover periods of leave. In addition, there are 16 separate frailty beds on the acute medical unit at HRI. The team also covers Virtual Ward and Frailty SDEC.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is an exceptional place to work with many amazing teams of hard working and dedicated staff, delivering high standards of patient care. We have made significant changes in the way we work to meet the challenges of the changing NHS, and we were rated by the Care Quality Commission as “Good” in June 2018. With goals to attain a rating of “Outstanding” from the CQC and to have Teaching Hospital status.
Our vision is to provide One Culture of Care, which means that we look after ourselves and our colleagues in the same way that we care for our patients. If you are kind, compassionate, dynamic, enthusiastic and effective we want to support you through the next stage of your career at consultant level.
Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust is undergoing a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to reconfigure services across our sites. The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit Our Future Plans - CHFT (cht.nhs.uk)
https://future.cht.nhs.uk/
Please see attached job description for full roles and responsibilities. If you have any specific questions about this role please contact us.
This advert closes on Tuesday 30 Sep 2025