'While in stroke rehab, patients and their families are very supported, and it's important to ensure they feel equally supported in the community - the Stroke Association play a big part in helping with that. Their website is very well designed and easily accessible for stroke survivors, their family, and friends.'

The purpose of the role

You’ll guide and inspire the organisation toward a future where stroke survivors and their loved ones are supported to live their best lives after stroke — where everyone regardless of where they live can access the support they need, in the way that’s right for them, and be able to adapt to their new life and achieve what matters to them.

You’ll steward, connect and convene around this area of our strategy, building relationships within and beyond our charity to inform our approach in Support as well as other areas of our strategy.

'The Stroke Association has been incredible. Manu made everything tangible when it felt like I was living in a dream world. Her support has been more significant than any physical therapy, it’s been a lifechanging and transformative experience.'

The application process

Applicant pack

We want to find the right person for this role – and we want this to be the right role for you. We’ve designed a process that gives us both the opportunity to make sure that this is the right role and match for us both:

To fulfil the role, you must be a resident of the UK and have the right to work in the UK.

We are a Disability Confident employer, and we are making great progress focusing on flexible working, reasonable adjustments and access to work. Our charity has a variety of staff network groups, and we're committed to continuously improving our diversity and inclusion efforts. If you have questions, or access needs, we’re happy to discuss any support and adjustments we can make throughout the recruitment process so that you’re able to contribute your best in a way that meets your needs.

Deciding to apply

• Learn more about us and the role at a webinar on 23 September 2025. Register here.
• Submit your application by midnight on 12 October 2025

We’ll invite long-listed candidates to join us to:

• Meet the CEO on 20 or 21 October 2025. This is a chance for you and Juliet to get to meet and learn more about each other
• Meet our people during the week of 22 October. This is a chance for you to get to know the people both delivering and accessing our stroke support – and for them to meet you.

We’ll invite shortlisted candidates to join us for:

• Values exploration (not assessed) during the week of 3 November 2025. This is an opportunity for you to learn more about your values and how aligned you feel with us and ours.
• Meeting our Executive Team in the week of 10 November 2025. You’ll join a Thinking Council with the team – experiencing one of the ways you’d be supported in this role.
• Panel interview on 17 or 18 November 2025. This is a chance for us to ask you questions, and vice versa, grounded in what we’ve learned about each other.

If we invite you to move through to the next stage of the process with us, we’ll share more about what each moment involves.

We will be looking to offer the role to the successful candidate by the end of November.

We will keep you informed about any decisions on your application along the way. If you have any questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at applications@stroke.org.uk

'Working with the Stroke Association has enabled us as a hospital and team to signpost patients, family members and carers to the amazing service they provide.'

Other important details

We’re a remote first organisation. We’ll provide you with all the kit, but you’ll need somewhere at home you can work from.
You’d be needing to travel regularly across the UK, with frequent travel to London and the Midlands where we often come together.
We’ll be looking to pay circa £105k, depending on your experience.
We offer a range of generous benefits, including:

• Flexibility around when you work, to help you balance work and life commitments.
• Employer pension contributions of 6%.
• Life assurance, critical illness cover, a health cash plan and more.
• Annual leave starting at 25 days plus bank holidays, with flex to use those days when you like.
• A volunteering day each year, to give back to a cause you care about.

Find out more on our website.

'I have seen the impact that the Stroke Association Support Coordinator service provides to my patients but unfortunately this service has not been commissioned in the area for many years.'

Application Guidance

We first recommend that you download the application pack. This will give you more information about the role and our work in the space of stroke support.

Applicant pack

The questions

As you respond to the questions, we invite you not only to share your knowledge and experience, but also to give us a sense of who you are as a leader and how you work. We are keen to understand:

• What drives and motivates you,
• How your values guide your decisions and relationships, and
• How you bring others with you in challenging or complex contexts.

Please keep your response to each question to the word limit.

Your response to these questions is what we’ll use to sift through the applications we receive. These will be assessed ‘blindly’, with no other information about who you are, or what’s on your CV.

Your CV

Please keep your CV to just two pages. It should include the remit and impact you’ve led in any relevant roles you’ve held, as well as any relevant learning or education.

The hiring team will only see your CV if you are successfully long-listed.

When you’re ready to apply for this role, you can fill in the form below. This form will ask you to answer three questions and then to upload a CV of no more than two pages.

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