Podiatrist - Band 5

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

We are recruiting two band 5 podiatrists in West Cumbria. An earlier start date would be considered at a lower banding while awaiting graduation and HCPC registration.

The Podiatry Department provides a comprehensive service to patients throughout North Cumbria. As a band 5 podiatrist, you will have the opportunity to enhance your clinical skills and knowledge to improve patient care through a robust preceptorship/induction programme. You will work alongside a friendly, welcoming, and supportive team dedicated to learning and improving, where everyone's voice counts.

This role would suit an enthusiastic and highly motivated new graduate or individual looking to return to practice to join our inspirational podiatry team on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will have excellent organisational and planning abilities to meet deadlines and prioritise tasks, demonstrate high-level interpersonal skills alongside a good sense of humour and resilience, and be a team player with good IT skills. If this sounds like your ideal role, we look forward to receiving your application.

We maintain high-risk, biomechanics, and nail surgery caseloads while providing episodes of care for specific conditions. Opportunities to develop skills and knowledge in specialist areas are available in the multi-disciplinary diabetic foot team and North Cumbria MSK service.

Main Duties of the Job

• To work with individuals, families, carers, communities, Primary Healthcare Teams, and other agencies to undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients/service users to inform a personalised plan of care/intervention.
• To triage, screen, assess, diagnose, and treat a number of podiatric conditions including the high-risk foot, nail surgery, and biomechanics.
• To formulate and deliver individual treatment plans for various foot conditions using holistic assessment, reasoning, and treatments based on evidence-based practice, and within specified scope of practice and skill level.
• To evaluate patient progress, reassess, and alter treatment programmes within scope of practice and skill level, using an accepted and appropriate range of techniques as required.
• To follow treatment plans for foot ulceration, utilising digital technologies including electronic patient records and wound care applications.
• To understand escalation points for patients presenting with complex conditions outside the scope of practice, including deteriorating or stagnating foot ulcers to a senior podiatrist.
• To prioritise foot and/or medical problems, intervening appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent, or emergency situations.
• To identify when patients need interventions from other services and initiate timely and onward referrals.

About Us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high-quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation, we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria, we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job Responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

The Trust will provide a twelve-month preceptorship period for New to registration Nurses, Midwives, and Allied Health Professionals.

Registered Nurses, Midwives, and Allied Health Professionals returning to practice, moving into new roles, or changing clinical environments may access an agreed preceptorship period.

Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.

If sufficient response is received, this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date; please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

Disclosure and Barring Service:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Person Specification Qualifications

• Degree or working toward qualification in Podiatric Medicine
• Local Anaesthesia Certificate
• HCPC registration or working toward

Knowledge

• Broad knowledge of routine and high-risk patient care (assessment, diagnosis, and treatment/management) e.g. diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, and wound care. Gained through graduate study and work experience/clinical placement
• Experience in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of a variety of foot conditions.
• Knowledge of disease pathologies that affect foot health.
• Experience working in the NHS.
• Experience in electronic health care systems e.g. EMiS web.
• Knowledge of national and Royal College of Podiatry clinical guidelines.
• Experience in delivering foot health education/promotion of the at-risk foot.

Skills and Aptitudes

• Manual dexterity for the use of surgical instruments, including scalpels and needles.
• Perform, analyse and interpret various assessments and develop treatment plans within scope of practice.
• Good oral and written communication skills based on fluency in the English language.
• Be able to work in restricted positions including domiciliary visits.
• Remain calm while under pressure.
• Work independently to manage own time and caseload.
• Able to adapt to change and resolve problems.

Personal Circumstances & Other Requirements

• Self-motivated.
• Be able to travel independently across North Cumbria as required.
• Have a satisfactory enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check and occupational health check.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.