Advanced Podiatrist
Posted 1 day 15 hours ago by Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Main area: Adult Community Physical Health Services
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent, 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref: 161-CPH
Site: Bexley Community Podiatrist
Town: Erith
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 pa inc
Salary period: Yearly
Closing date: 04/05/:59
Job overviewWe are seeking to appoint an experienced podiatrist to work within the Bexley Community High Risk Podiatry team. This role will involve working across sites; community and acute.
Applicants must be registered with the HCPC and have a degree in Podiatry with a Local Anaesthesia certificate. It is essential that you have the ability to work flexibly, and you should be a driver with access to a car for work purposes.
Main duties of the jobOur service delivers comprehensive high risk podiatry care to the residents of Bexley. You will be involved in the assessment and planning of individual patient care, working independently and as part of a team, so excellent communication, diagnostic, and team building skills are essential.
We deliver patient care to a variety of clinical settings including community health centres, patients' homes, and residential/care homes. You will be responsible for undertaking advanced diabetes foot care in line with NICE guidance and associated care planning and risk management.
This role also requires you to undertake line management responsibilities including recruitment, health roster, complaints investigations, and performance reviews.
Working for our organisationOxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities, and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools, and people's homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London, we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We Listen
- We Care
You will have excellent clinical skills and extensive experience of treating patients with a wide variety of long-term conditions, especially those with high-risk clinical needs. Our aim is to deliver excellent quality care to patients to maintain their mobility and independence. You must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills and enthusiasm for contributing to the service provided by the Trust.
Oxleas is committed to CPD and training initiatives to achieve personal and service objectives. We offer regular 1:1 supervision meetings, an annual PDR, frequent peer reviews, and monthly in-house CPD sessions. The team also has access to a dedicated CPD training budget to support staff development. We support the training of Podiatry students, and our Podiatrists are actively involved in a clinical educator programme with the University of East London.
Person specification Qualifications & Training- Bachelor of Science - Podiatry
- HCPC Registration
- IRMER Certificate
- Teaching, Mentoring, Supervision Experience
- Minimum 3 years working at a band 6 level
- Domiciliary & Care Home Experience
- Previous NHS Experience
- Experience across community and acute
- Advanced debridement skills and wound care knowledge
- Experienced in advanced neurovascular assessments of lower limb
- Advanced knowledge of complex wound treatments
- Previous acute hospital experience
- Casting/offloading experience
- Evidence of team working
- Prior Band 7 experience
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.