Trust Sho - Croydon, United Kingdom - Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

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Croydon, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Applications are invited for a number of trust grade SHO/FY2 at Croydon University Hospital for a period of one year.

There is a large and active department of elderly care medicine which offers comprehensive geriatric services and covers subspecialty interests in stroke, orthogeriatrics, movement disorders and dementia.

The trust has been nationally recognised as being pioneering in the development of acute frailty services.

All posts would incorporate ward work fully supported by a team consisting of a consultant, registrar, fellow SHOs, FY1s and, for some posts, physicians associates.

Applications are invited for a number of trust grade SHO/FY2 at Croydon University Hospital for a period of one year.

The trust has been nationally recognised as being pioneering in the development of acute frailty services.

Additionally the successful applicant would be participating in the general medical/elderly care on call as part of a 18 person rota.

This would include shifts covering out of hours ward work, supported by ward FY1s and a dedicated ward cover registrar, and also clerking on call shifts which are robustly supported by both the clerking medical registrar and Acute Medical consultant of the day.

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon.

These include:

Croydon University Hospital
Purley Hospital
The Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Centre in Thornton Heath
Community bases at Purley, Sanderstead, New Addington, Broad Green, Woodside
A minor injuries unit in New Addington

The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust.

Around 3,500 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our Vision:

"Excellent integrated care for you and your family, when and where you need it"

Our 5 key 'Here for you' promises to the people of Croydon are:

You feel cared for by helpful and welcoming staff
You feel in safe hands with highly professional staff
You feel confident in your treatment from skilled teams of compassionate clinicians
You feel we value your time with convenient appointments, mínimal waiting and care closer to home
You feel it's getting better all the time as we continue to improve our services

" As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19."

Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role in job description and person specification.