Croydon Health Services NHS Trust

Our Croydon Learning Week gets underway on Monday and will run until Friday 8 November. It’s a week of events aimed at boosting career and personal development across our organisation. We have teamed up with ICB South West London, to provide a great range of training workshops, webinars and events designed to support colleagues at every stage of their career journey. As part of Croydon Learning Week, we will be at the Croydon Careers Fair, on Tuesday 5 November along with other local and national companies, at the Croydon Careers Fair offering careers advice to our staff and people who live in Croydon. The event will run from 10am till 4pm at Mosaic East, Stephenson House, Cherry Orchard Road, CRO 6SR. You can register in advance and receive a voucher at the event. Learning, networking and exciting new possibilities await you at Croydon Learning Week, so check The Link for more information.

Earlier this week, our amazing Health and Wellbeing Team brought the 'Thirst Responders' trolley to the Women's Unit here at Croydon University Hospital🛒 ☕ The unit was provided tea, coffee water snacks, and fruit. Most importantly, the visit provided our staff a few minutes to relax. 🙌 Thanks again to @croydonhealthcharity for funding this much-loved initiative 💙

One of our Jabathon vaccinators not only offering flu and COVID-19 protection to medical staff but also ISS staff working at our hospital site.   If you missed out on getting your flu and COVID-19 jabs during the Jabathon, find out more about getting your jabs through The LINK.

The co-chair of our Race Equality Network Keisha Gordon- Salmon shared this wonderful post following the Gala Night on Friday. 🔁 Keisha Gordon- Salmon (LinkedIn) 📢 🔺 IN THE NEWS TODAY 🔺 📢 On Friday the Race Equality Network and our trust Matrons had our GALA NIGHT, continuing with our Black History Month Celebration. Croydon Health Services NHS Trust we are acknowledging our African and Caribbean community that plays an important part of our patients care and making a grate impact to our community. The Race Equality Network are here to Improve the working lives of staff and provide a forum to highlight common workplace issues for the organisation to address and also share knowledge and experience. We had Flag parade, Cultural dance, Story telling, Choir singing and our awesome MC'S was on point. It was well received by everyone that had attended 😋FOOD😋 FOOD 😋FOOD😋 from all over the African and Caribbean community. A BIG THANKS YOU TO ALL THAT MADE IT POSSIBLE 🌟🌟🌟🌟

Earlier this week we welcomed Baroness Merron, Minister for Patient Safety, Women's Health and Mental Health and Dame Lesley Regan, Women’s Health Ambassador for England to our Trust to showcase our women's health services. The visit started with a tour of our Maternity Unit, led by Mary Dehinbo, Director or Midwifery, Gynaecology and Neonatal Services, where they visited our Labour Ward and Neonatal Unit, where the team care for the tiny babies born pre term. This was followed by a round table discussion in our Urogynaecology Service with • Dr Subhro Banerjee, Trust Medical Director • Ranee Thakar, Consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist and current @RCObsGyn President, • Abdul Sultan, Consultant Obstetrician and Urogynaecologist, • Wendy Ness, Colorectal Nurse Specialist and • Dr Dalia Saidan, Consultant Subspecialist Urogynaecologist and clinical lead for our FGM service. They were also joined by two patients who told of their fantastic experience of care at the Trust. It was great to share the important work the two teams are doing to support our Croydon community and to we look forward to welcoming them again. #TeamCroydon💙

🌏✨Happy Makaton International Awareness Day, a day to champion diversity, accessibility and communication for all. Makaton is a unique language programme that uses symbols, signs and speech to enable people to communicate. Over 100,000 children and adults use Makaton, and it’s the UK’s leading language programme primarily used by adults and children with learning or communication difficulties. Makaton is based on British Sign Language (BSL - the language of the deaf community) but is always used in conjunction with speech. Our amazing Speech and Language Therapy Team have put together a special video showing you some of the common Makaton signs so we can all learn together! 🙌💙 #MakatonInternationalAwarenessDay

A Testament to an Amazing and Inspiring Physician and Intensive Care Doctor- a Farewell Gathering for none other than “Dr. James O’Donnell 💫” Always a smile and always willing to help everyone. James is the epitome of a classic physician and colleague. One of the Best Doctors we have worked with!!! And so say all of us….. Best Wishes James and Happy Retirement From us all at Croydon Health Services NHS Trust There was standing room only as the PGMC filled with many colleagues, former and present and many friends coming to wish James 💫💫💫

Mabuhay! 🌴 Our Race Equality Network brought a little piece of the Philippines directly to Croydon at CHS’s first EVER ‘Filipino Fiesta’ 🎊 It was a great way of saying ‘thank you’ to all of our Filipino staff for the valuable contributions they’ve made not only to our Trust, but to the NHS entirely. What a fantastic way to celebrate Croydon’s diversity and round off #SouthAsianHeritageMonth 🙌

Well done to our staff from our Intensive Treatment Unit (ITU), who were awarded the title of 'Practice Area of the Year' last week. This achievement highlights the exceptional support provided by our ITU Team in helping our student colleagues settle in to their placements. Well done to the team for their unwavering support and compassion 🙌

For many NHS staff, the recent racist violence in this country will leave them feeling afraid and unwelcome. To those colleagues, our message is simple: you are welcome and you are valuable members of our community. Reach out for support if you need it. ➡ https://lnkd.in/ds5Fiw5