Specialist Podiatrist

Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism and community-based services for the populations we serve.

As an integrated mental health, learning disability and community Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including:

1. Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, forensic services including low and medium secure care.
2. Specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
3. Community physical health and well-being services for children and adults.

The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,000 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health and general nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers.

Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust supports flexible working; we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, home/remote working, and flexi-time.

We have an exciting opportunity to be able to offer a permanent contract for 30 hours per week. We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual, who has extensive experience within the Podiatry field. The successful candidate will be responsible for a highly specialist podiatry portfolio in an agreed area of expertise, which will include provision of expert advice to podiatrists, senior clinicians, MDT across LSCFT and working closely with the Acute Trust.

Main duties of the job

The Podiatry service provides assessment and treatment to service users referred with a variety of Podiatric conditions. The successful candidate will need to be able to manage a clinical caseload of patients with highly complex and/or additional podiatric needs. Also be able to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and skills, have good communication & organisational abilities, and have a positive attitude to the care of the patients under the care of the Podiatry service.

Working for our organisation

The team is multi-disciplinary and works closely with other Community and Acute teams covering a wide range of agencies.

It is desirable for applicants to have experience of working at Band 7 level.

A robust programme of support, supervision and development will be offered to the successful candidate upon appointment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role.

Person specification Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent in Podiatric Medicine
• Current professional registration with HCPC as Podiatrist and be responsible for maintaining own registration
• Certificate in Local analgesic / and or POM as recommended by HCPC
• Evidence of CPD in related field of clinical expertise.

Knowledge

• Understanding of clinical governance framework and implications for practice including audit and research.
• In-depth understanding of current NHS/government policy/Public Health/NICE guidelines on organisational change and the ability to adapt these appropriately to local service needs.
• Knowledge and appreciation of lone working risks - policy and procedure.

Experience

• Evidence of significant experience in the treatment of a broad range of conditions relating to clinical speciality of podiatry.
• Highly advanced and specialised practice skills in field of podiatric practice.
• Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
• Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working

Please note that further communication from Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCft) will normally be to the email address given on the application form. You should also ensure that email addresses and telephone numbers are provided for your referees, to enable LSCft to contact them.

Please ensure that you read the person specification attached below as your application will be measured against this document. Applications from job share partners are welcome and other forms of flexible working will be considered for all posts.

For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).

You are advised to consider applying for LSCft vacancies as soon as possible as in some instances vacancies are closed as soon as a sufficient number of applications have been received. If you are not invited to interview within three weeks of the closing date then please assume that on this occasion you have been unsuccessful, as it is not possible to contact all unsuccessful candidates.

LSCft is committed to celebrating difference as an asset and we know that recruiting talent from diverse backgrounds helps to create a more flexible, creative and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from people regardless of age, disability (particularly those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion or belief, or sexual orientation. Our goal is for the Trust to be truly representative of the communities we serve so we are particularly keen to receive applications from people in under-represented groups. If there is anything you'd like to discuss in relation to your application then please ask.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Name: James Brown
Job title: Podiatry Team Co-Ordinator
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