Community Stroke Nurse | The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 31 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 January 2026 |
| Location: | Kings Lynn, PE30 4ET |
| Company: | Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7558552/426-080-25TAM |
Summary
To work within the Community Stroke Service on a Bank contract providing specialist nursing assessment and treatment for patients following a diagnosis of stroke.
This role will assist in the assessment and treatment of patients with newly diagnosed stroke, within the West Norfolk locality, who have been discharged.
This role will sit within the West Norfolk community stroke service maximising patients optimal level of independence.
• To in-reach into The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Stroke services where necessary and work collaboratively with the wider stroke care systems in the Integrated Care System, Acute, and Community services to provide a service to West Norfolk patients.
• Provide expert advice to relevant personnel on the management of stroke, ensuring a seamless service across the stroke pathway.
• Providing highly specialist nursing assessments and advice
• To provide medication reviews, basic observations and liaise with professionals as required
• Communicating complex and sensitive information to patients and carers as to their assessment, prognosis and treatment plan. To work frequently with patients and families in complex situations that are emotionally distressing and may cause hostility. This may include completing suicide risk assessments and providing and receiving contentious information.
There’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital due to open in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.
Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.
At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.
We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.
We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.
For further information about this role please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification
This advert closes on Wednesday 14 Jan 2026