Senior Stroke Specialist Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time
- Posted
- 14/09/2026
- Closes
- 21/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Band 7 Advanced Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialist to join a high-performing Stroke Team. You will provide expert, evidence-based care across the stroke pathway, including advanced clinical assessment, leadership, and education. The role involves working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team to improve patient outcomes and contribute to service development, audit, and quality improvement.
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse with appropriate NMC registration for role.
- Degree level qualification or equivalent professional Qualification and experience
- Post-registration qualification relevant to the specialty, or equivalent specialist experience and evidence of continued professional development.
Desirable criteria
- Relevant postgraduate study or specialist qualification.
- Leadership, management, quality improvement or teaching qualification/training.
- Evidence of further study relevant to the specialty.
- Significant post-registration experience within the relevant specialty or closely related clinical area.
- Experience working at Band 6 or equivalent level within specialist nursing practice.
- Experience managing patients with complex specialist needs and supporting clinical decision making within agreed pathways. Experience providing senior specialist advice to staff, patients, carers or multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Experience supervising, supporting and developing registered staff, unregistered staff and learners.
- Experience leading or coordinating audit, service evaluation, quality improvement or local service development initiatives.
- Experience working effectively within multidisciplinary teams and across organisational or service boundaries.
- Experience of supporting recruitment, appraisal, competency assessment or performance support
- Experience producing reports, briefing papers, education resources or service improvement updates.
- skills and knowledge
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist nursing care for patients with complex needs within agreed clinical governance arrangements.
- Ability to coordinate complex patient pathways and contribute to continuity of care across services.
- Ability to provide senior specialist advice, guidance and support to staff, patients and carers. Strong understanding of clinical governance, risk management, safeguarding, information governance, equality and human rights.
- Excellent communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex, sensitive or distressing information with compassion and clarity.
- Ability to organise own workload and support prioritisation of work across a specialist team or pathway.
- Knowledge of service improvement methodology.
- Awareness of national standards, guidance or performance measures relevant to the specialty.
- Competent IT and data skills for audit, reporting and service monitoring.
- Registered Nurse with appropriate NMC registration for role.
- Degree level qualification or equivalent professional Qualification and experience
- Post-registration qualification relevant to the specialty, or equivalent specialist experience and evidence of continued professional development.
- Relevant postgraduate study or specialist qualification.
- Leadership, management, quality improvement or teaching qualification/training.
- Evidence of further study relevant to the specialty.
- Significant post-registration experience within the relevant specialty or closely related clinical area.
- Experience working at Band 6 or equivalent level within specialist nursing practice.
- Experience managing patients with complex specialist needs and supporting clinical decision making within agreed pathways. Experience providing senior specialist advice to staff, patients, carers or multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Experience supervising, supporting and developing registered staff, unregistered staff and learners.
- Experience leading or coordinating audit, service evaluation, quality improvement or local service development initiatives.
- Experience working effectively within multidisciplinary teams and across organisational or service boundaries.
- Experience of supporting recruitment, appraisal, competency assessment or performance support
- Experience producing reports, briefing papers, education resources or service improvement updates.
- skills and knowledge
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist nursing care for patients with complex needs within agreed clinical governance arrangements.
- Ability to coordinate complex patient pathways and contribute to continuity of care across services.
- Ability to provide senior specialist advice, guidance and support to staff, patients and carers. Strong understanding of cl
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Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £51,657 – £58,785 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Stroke Specialist Nurse
The closing date is 21 September 2026
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 7 Advanced Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join our well-established, high-performing Stroke Team.
Working within a forward-thinking hospital with excellent thrombolysis and thrombectomy performance, you will play a pivotal role in delivering expert, evidence-based care across the stroke pathway. You will provide advanced clinical assessment, leadership, education, and support to patients and their families while working collaboratively within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team.
We are looking for a dynamic clinician with significant stroke experience, excellent communication skills, and a passion for improving patient outcomes. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your advanced practice within a service recognised for delivering high-quality stroke care and driving continuous improvement.
If you are committed to clinical excellence and want to be part of a team at the forefront of stroke care, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
As a Band 7 Advanced Stroke Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will provide expert specialist nursing care across the stroke pathway, including hyperacute, acute and rehabilitation services. Working within
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