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Job Description The Stroke Unit of Portsmouth Hospitals University Trust is one of the busiest centres in the UK. We had over 5000 referrals between 2024 -2025 and thrombolysed over 200 patients, with nearly 10 % going for mechanical thrombectomy at the regional specialist centre in Southampton. Our reach and ability to open the revascularisation window has now been extended with our CT perfusion systems being online. We have a 34-bed stroke unit in which there are 12 designated HASU beds, as well as a newly purpose built 30 bed rehab unit with 2 dedicated neuro-gymnasiums, and a 7-day outpatient TIA service. Currently, we are in partnership with Isle of Wight NHS Trust providing with consultant and senior support on a daily basis through out of hours thrombolysis on call cover. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Registrar in Stroke Medicine to work in a well-motivated team of 6 other Consultants (some locum), and another Speciality Grade Doctor in Stroke Medicine. There is ample opportunity and encouragement to pursue, service quality improvement projects, teaching, and supervision. The post holder will be involved in a 5 days a week 8am-5pm scheduled stroke rota to support an acute stroke response team, TIA clinics, acute stroke and stroke rehabilitation wards. There will be no requirement to contribute to the night on-call rota, however the post holder will need to support our Stroke Nurse Specialists and Stroke Consultants in the Emergency Department when on acute day duties. The Post holder will need to triage and review patients in the TIA clinic through the week also to take the ward-based responsibilities when needed. The post holder will be expected to contribute to education of our junior medical and non-medical therapy and nursing teams.