Locum Consultant in Intensive Care and Acute medicine | Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 28 Tachwedd 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £88,364 - £119,133 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 28 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Croydon, CR7 7YE |
| Cwmni: | Croydon Health Services |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7551211/MS7551211 |
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These are new substantive Consultant post. The majority remit of the post holders will be to work within the multi–disciplinary team providing and further developing expansion of the Critical Care Service, either as a single speciality or with programmed activities in Anaesthesia/Theatres or Base Speciality. In addition, the individual will be required to play an active role in the general workload of the department while having a significant commitment to teaching and training of junior staff.
The post will provide 7 programmed activities, briefly comprising of 8.5 PA of direct clinical care (split between Critical Care approximately 55% and Base speciality 45%, or 100% Critical Care depending on CCT) and 1.5 SPA.
The Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care sits within the Directorate of Critical Care and Surgery, which provides Theatres anaesthetic, Acute and Chronic Pain, and Critical Care and Critical Care Outreach Services at the Croydon University Hospital site in the north of the Borough of Croydon.
The Critical Care Unit currently comprises 15 beds used flexibly for Level 2 and 3 care. In August 2023 we will be moving into a new Critical Care Unit, comprising 22 beds, which is currently under construction. We have a long-established Critical Care Outreach team, led by senior nurses, which works closely with the Critical Care Clinicians.
A surgical enhanced care unit was established post pandemic to provide post-operative level 1.5 care to complex patients and surgeries, and is overseen by the department of Anaesthesia,
There are ten main operating theatres (Croydon Elective Centre), four theatres in the Emergency Surgical Centre (CEPOD & Trauma) and two obstetric theatres. Additionally, the department provides anaesthetic services to Endoscopy/Interventional Radiology and the Cardiac Catheter Laboratory.
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.
We are a very close-knit and friendly organization where every one of our 3600 members of staff is valued. We strongly believe that our employees are our greatest asset.
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, minimal 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.”
To deliver a consultant led Critical Care, and Critical Care Outreach service as part of the duty Consultant rota and this includes all aspects of treatment and relevant management duties for the proper functioning of the department, viz:
Leading twice daily Critical Care Ward Rounds
On-call work related to Critical Care
Medical Procedures related to Critical Care
Communication with patients and/or their relatives
Multidisciplinary Team meetings
Review of referrals to Critical Care and liaison with ward specialities
Critical Care Outreach work, including discharge follow up and ward based NIV, in collaboration with the
CCOT specialist nurses
Critical Care Follow-up Clinic
Programmed activities in Theatres/Anaesthetics or base speciality
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