Tia Co-ordinator

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Stroke department at Basildon hospital for a TIA Co-Ordinator on a permanent full time basis. This role contains clinical and administartive duties.

You will be accountable for the overall daily management of the “one stop” TIA clinic and will be ensuring that local and national guidelines/targets are met.

You will identify any service shortfalls in meeting these targets and raise these concerns to the relevant line manager or Clinical Stroke nurse.

Trained as a Healthcare Assistant

Take blood pressure, temperature, saturations and pulses to document and share with Stroke Doctors.

Perform ECG and take bloods.

Shadow Dr in OPD clinic.

Assist with toileting and personal care.

Sign post patients to stroke association if needed

If admission is needed, liaise with site team, stroke nurse - direct admission needed to acute stroke unit

Assist stroke nurse in A&E when required

Ensuring clinic appointment are given within 24hrs from first contact with primary professional.

Book patients into the TIA clinics via EPR.

Ensure patients are informed, by telephone of their appointment.

With a workforce of approximately 15,000 staff, we can now do more and go further in delivering health services to our local communities.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

Patients will experience improved care as well as fewer delays and cancellations. We are able to provide more once-in-a-lifetime specialist care region-wide. With our new trust size will come more opportunities for development, research, networking and innovation.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.