Community Podiatrist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A health service provider in Liverpool is looking for a Community Podiatrist to enhance foot health and quality of life for patients. Responsibilities include assessing and providing tailored podiatric care, collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams, and ensuring treatment for patients with special needs. This role supports career progression in a dynamic environment focused on high-quality care services.

Qualifications

• Passion for improving foot health and enhancing quality of life.
• Ability to assess and provide clear podiatric care packages.

Responsibilities

• Assess and provide podiatric care to patients.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver patient-centered care.
• Provide treatment for tissue viability and pain relief.

Job description

Are you passionate about improving foot health and enhancing quality of life? Join our podiatry team and make a real difference to the lives of patients every day! As a Community Podiatrist, you will assess and provide clearly planned podiatric care packages to patients with a variety of care needs, with the aim of maintaining independence and mobility. You will work alongside a multi-disciplinary team, collaborating with other healthcare professionals to deliver high quality, patient centred care. Whether you're a newly registered Podiatrist or experienced practitioner, this is a fantastic opportunity to develop your skills in a supportive and forward thinking environment.

• Rotation into the acute sector as an observer in departments such as vascular and orthopaedics.
• Encouragement and support with your career progression into advanced clinical roles and leadership roles. You will work as part of a highly motivated team providing a high standard of clinical care in a variety of community settings, ensuring the provision of seamless care between primary and secondary care.

You will provide treatment for patients to maintain tissue viability and relieve pain; especially patients who require specialist care packages because they are at special risk due to diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and peripheral vascular disease.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands. We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities. At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.