King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

We provide a strong profile of local hospital services for people living in the boroughs of Lambeth, Southwark, Lewisham, and Bromley. Our specialist services are also available to patients from a wider area. We provide nationally and internationa wider area. We provide nationally and internationally recognised treatment and care in liver disease and transplantation, neurosciences, haemato-oncology, and fetal medicine. Our vision is to be bold, and our Trust values – Kind, Respectful Team – help ensure we bring a positive attitude to the way we interact with patients, relatives, and the many people who use our services. At King’s, we are a kind, respectful team Kind. We show compassion and understanding and bring a positive attitude to our work. Respectful. We promote equality, are inclusive and honest, speaking up when needed. Team. We support each other, communicate openly, and are reassuringly professional. These are the King’s values. They have been developed along with our strategy with input from over 4,500 staff, patients and other members of our community and we thank everyone who contributed. At King’s, we have a rich and diverse range of people who together deliver to our patients and communities. Our values are the threads that holds us altogether. They are the values we live by and the ethos which underpins how we care for each other. They are the foundations for building a culture which will help us deliver our Trust vision and strategy. We want everyone who works for King’s to treat people in ways which reflect our values. They set a clear standard of what you can expect while you are cared for by King’s. We have developed a behaviour framework which articulates what is expected from every member of staff. Being a kind, respectful team will only be a reality if we all behave in this way. King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the biggest and busiest Trusts in the country, primarily serving the London Boroughs of Southwark, Lambeth and Bromley, with a population of over 1 million people, and acting as a referral centre for millions more. Our vision is to be bold, supported by our values – Kind, Respectful Team. Our nearly 15,000 exceptionally talented and motivated staff work together as Team King’s – delivering the best for our patients. Since opening in 1840, King’s has built its reputation as a world class hospital, with roots that lie firmly in the heart of our community. We are both a leading teaching hospital and a local hospital with a diverse inner city population. Caring for patients from some of the most deprived communities in London, and some of the wealthiest, our world class specialties such as diabetes, liver, sickle cell, neurology, fetal medicine, stroke and blood cancers are largely driven by the health problems of the people around us. Right from our origins, caring for the poor and needy in Lincoln’s Inn in central London, and wounded soldiers from two world wars, the culture at King’s has always been one of creativity and enterprise, and this is reflected in the people that work here. King’s is recognised globally as a world-leading innovation centre. From conducting the UK’s first bone marrow transplant to helping to establish the world’s first voluntary blood donor service, King’s has been at the forefront of new healthcare for over a century. We are one of London’s leading trauma centres, allowing us to save more lives by providing immediate specialist care to the most urgent, life-threatening cases. Over 50 years ago, King’s established one of the first liver units in the country, and has since been a major European transplant programme, completing over 6,000 successful liver transplants. In 2016, we opened a helipad on top of King’s College Hospital in Camberwell. The helipad has transformed trauma care across south east London and Kent, and serves more than 4.5 million people. In 2019, King’s became the first major trauma centre in London to be granted permission for air ambulances to land at night, ensuring patients have access to highly-specialised treatment any time of the day. We are a founding member of King’s Health Partners (KHP) – one of eight accredited Academic Health Science Centres in the UK committed to delivering better health for all through high impact innovation. King’s is also a member of the Shelford Group – a group of the top 10 teaching and research-active NHS Trusts. Patients come to King’s from all over the world – for the skill and compassion of our staff and our reputation as pioneers in medical research. ...view more