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We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Stroke Reviewer to join our team at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. As a Stroke Reviewer, you will play a vital role in providing comprehensive stroke review assessments to service users approximately 6 months post-stroke, using a validated and standardized tool.

• Contact service users eligible for a Stroke six-month review and offer an appointment either by phone/virtually, in their home, or at clinic.
• Carry out comprehensive stroke review assessments, developing a particular focus on new needs the service user may have developed since their discharge.
• Provide Stroke prevention education, advice, and guidance to improve self-management and encourage meaningful engagement within their local community.
• Liaise with service users' carers to explore any needs that they have which should be addressed, and clinically reason to determine appropriate onward referrals/care pathways.
• Communicate sensitive and complex information regarding rehabilitation to service users, carers, family, and other health and social care professionals and organizations.
• Screen service users' or carers' psychological state using validated mood screens and offer advice for onward support where needed.
• Complete medication reconciliation to ensure service users are taking the recommended prescription as stated on their hospital discharge report.
• Review walking aids and equipment that has been prescribed previously by clinicians to ensure they continue to meet the patients' moving and handling needs.
• Write a report to the service users' GP highlighting any concerns identified and rationale for actions that need to be completed by the GP.
• Make referrals to other services within the community as per the service users' needs, using analytical and clinical reasoning skills.
• Participate in the triage of referrals, using appropriate rationale to prioritize accordingly.
• Effectively manage own varied caseload, using prioritization and time management skills in a variety of community settings.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful foundation trusts, providing specialist care for patients, including heart and lung, cancer, and renal services, as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and are part of King's Health Partners, one of England's eight academic health sciences centres. We have around 25,000 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country, and we strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organization.