Community Podiatrist

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Podiatrist to join their team. The role involves providing high-quality podiatric care, and responsibilities include assessing patients and developing treatment plans. The successful candidate will gain extensive clinical experience through a rotational program in various settings and enhance their skills to become an independent practitioner.

Qualifications

• Ability to work independently as an autonomous practitioner.
• Basic knowledge from a Professional Degree in Podiatry that will be further developed.
• Experience in a variety of clinical settings during rotations.

Responsibilities

• Assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating podiatric care.
• Working closely with the Specialist Community Podiatrist Team.
• Developing clinical skills through practical and theoretical knowledge.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Patient care

Podiatric knowledge

Education

Professional Degree in Podiatry

Job description

As a Community Podiatrist within Gloucestershire Podiatry Service, you will be expected to work with the Specialist Community Podiatrist Team providing high quality podiatric care.

You will be responsible for assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing and evaluating podiatric care to patients with a variety of clinical needs.

Within this post you will be expected to develop your clinical skills to become an autonomous independent practitioner. As a Community Podiatrist you will have a basic level of knowledge and skills that are gained through your Professional Degree; your knowledge and skills will be further developed using our rotational programme within variety of clinical settings. This will be complemented with both practical and theoretical knowledge.

Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for further information.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.