UHS is a large teaching hospital serving a population of 1.3 million people living in Southampton and southern Hampshire.  It provides specialist regional services for the Wessex population of 3.5 million including neurosciences, cardiac care, and paediatric intensive care to the population of central southern England.  UHS is the regional centre for neurosurgery, complex neurology, stroke and neuroradiology.  It is a major centre for teaching and research and works in association with the University of Southampton, the Medical Research Council and The Welcome Trust.

The successful applicants will join a team of 7 stroke physicians, 7 neurologists and 
6 registrars/senior fellows. The UHS Stroke Service is a Comprehensive Stroke Centre (CSC) and has a local catchment population of about 0.7 million. The service admits over one thousand patients with a confirmed stroke diagnosis a year and now provides a 24/7 thrombectomy service for Wessex. We have fast access to CT angiography, CT perfusion and MR brain imaging, enabling us to be at the forefront of acute stroke treatment and research. Patients are first admitted to our 13 bed Hyper Acute Stroke Unit (HASU) situated within the neuroscience block and then transferred to our acute/rehab ward, F8.

We are advertising for 2 posts.