Consultant – Acute Medicine

Overview

In this role you will contribute to a fast-paced, improvement-driven acute medicine service at Croydon University Hospital. You will cover structured on-call duties and oversee AMU care, ensuring rapid assessment, stabilization, and early treatment before downstream referral to zoned wards. The position supports cross-functional collaboration to deliver safe, timely medical care and improvement of patient flow. This is an opportunity to influence acute care delivery in a busy hospital setting.

Pay / Benefits

• parking
• gym
• health and wellbeing programme
• on-site nursery
• cycle to work scheme

Responsibilities

• On-call commitments (12-hour weekday, 5 in 9 weeks; weekend on-call in AMU and GIM duties)
• Lead clinical care in the Acute Medical Unit, with rapid initiation of evidence-based treatments
• Coordinate referral and movement of acutely ill patients to zoned specialty wards
• Provide senior clinical input to ensure appropriate, timely patient care across the Trust

Key requirements

• Full registration with the GMC
• MB BS or equivalent (and registrable with the GDC MFDS or equivalent)

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